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Academic: The “Gateway Belief” Illusion: Reanalyzing a Scientific-consensus Messaging Study. J. Sci. Comm., 16(5), 1-20 (2017) Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government. Behavioural Public Policy 1, 54-86 (2017) (with Peters, E., Dawson, E.C. & Slovic, P.). The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication (Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 2017) (with Jamieson, K.H., & Scheufele, D.A. eds.). On ... Read more
The “Gateway Belief” Illusion: Reanalyzing a Scientific-consensus Messaging Study. J. Sci. Comm., 16(5), 1-20 (2017)
Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government. Behavioural Public Policy 1, 54-86 (2017) (with Peters, E., Dawson, E.C. & Slovic, P.).
The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication (Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 2017) (with Jamieson, K.H., & Scheufele, D.A. eds.).
On the Sources of Ordinary Science Knowledge and Extraordinary Science Ignorance, Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication (Jamieson, KH, Kahan, DM & Scheufele D, eds. 2017)
Out of the field and into the lab, Nature Climate Change , 7, 309-311 (2017) (with Katie Carpenter).
Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing, Advances in Political Psychology , 38, 179-99 (2017) (with A. Landrum, K. Carpenter, L. Helft & K.H. Jamieson)
The expressive rationality of inaccurate perceptions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40 (2017), hhtps://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525x15002332
Culturally Antagonistic Memes and the Zika Virus: An Experimental Test, J. Risk Res. 1-20, (2017) , http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13669877.2016.1260631 (with K.H. Jamieson, A. Landrum & K. Winneg)
The Politically Motivated Reasoning Paradigm, Part 1: What Politically Motivated Reason Is and How to Measure it , Emerging Trends in Social & Behavioral Sciences (2016), on-line advance http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0417/pdf
The Politically Motivated Reasoning Paradigm, Part 2: Unanswered Questions , Emerging Trends in Social & Behavioral Sciences (2016), on-line advance http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0418/abstract
A Note on the Perverse Effects of Actively Open-Minded Thinking on Climate Change Polarization, Research & Politics, October-December 2016: 1–5, DOI: 10.1177/2053168016676705, (with J. Corbin)
“Ordinary Science Intelligence”: A Science Comprehension Measure for Study of Risk and Science Communication, with Notes on Evolution and Climate Change, J. Risk Res. (2016), advance on-line publication at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13669877.2016.1148067.
‘Ideology’ or ‘Situation Sense’? An Experimental Investigation of Motivated Reasoning and Professional Judgment, 116 U. Pa. L. Rev. 349 (2016). (with David Hoffman, Danieli Evans, Neal Devins, Eugene Luci & Katherine Cheng).
What Is the “Science of Science Communication”?, 14 J. Sci. Comm. 1 (2015).
Climate Science Communication and the Measurement Problem, 36 Advances Pol. Psych. 1 (2015)
Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-channel Model of Science Communication, 658 Annals Am. Pol. & Social Sci. 192 (2015) (with Jenkins-Smith, J., Taranotola, T., Silva C., & Braman, D.).
Laws of Cognition and Cognition of Law, 135 Cognition 56 (2015)
Making Climate-Science Communication Evidence Based—All the Way Down. In Culture, Politics and Climate Change , eds. M. Boykoff & D. Crow, pp. 203-21. (Routledge Press, 2014).
A Risky Science Communication Environment for Vaccines, 342 Science 53 (2013)
Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection, 4 Judgment & Decision Making 407 (2013)