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- “*Scientists* & identity-protective cognition? Well, on the one hand … on the other hand … on the *other* other hand …” A fragment
- “A sensitive matter” indeed! The science communication risks of climate model recalibration
- “Anyone who doesn’t agree must be a Marxist!” Plus “bans,” “decibans,” & Turing & Good on “evidentiary weight”
- “Bounded rationality”: the Grigori Rasputin of explanations for public perceptions of climate change risk
- “Climate change caused …”: linguistics, empirics, & reasoned discourse
- “Clueless bumblers”: Explaining the “noise” in a polluted science communication environment…
- “Conservatives lose faith in science over last 40 years”–where do you see *that* in the data?
- “Fake news”–enh. “Alternative Facts presidency”–watch out! (Talk summary & slides)
- “I was wrong?! Coooooooooool!”
- “Is politically motivated reasoning rational?” A fragment …
- “Krugman’s ‘magic motivated reasoning mirror’ show”– I’ve stopped watching but not trying to learn from reflective people who still are
- “Let’s shame them!”: part and parcel of the dangerous seat-of-the-pants, evidence-free style of risk communication we are using to protect universal vaccination in US
- “Messaging” scientific consensus: ruminations on the external validity of climate-science-communication studies, part 2
- “More statistics, less persuasion”: the gun control debate continues, and continues to miss the point…
- “Motivated Numeracy”: What’s the Point? (lecture synopsis, slides)
- “Politically Motivated Reasoning Paradigm” (PMRP): what it is, how to measure it
- “Politics & Science Webinar” Q&A;: vaccine- & GM food-risk perceptions
- “Religion, not political predispositions or political elite discourse, generates conflict over science” Seriously?!!!
- “SCS_1.0”: Measuring science curiosity
- “the strongest evidence to date” on effect of “97% consensus” messaging
- “the strongest evidence to date” on effect of “97% consensus” messaging
- “They already got the memo” part 2: More data on the *public consensus* on what “climate scientists think” about human-caused global warming
- “They Saw a Protest”: Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction
- “They saw a statutory ambiguity”–judges & motivated reasoning
- “Tragedy of the Science-Communication Commons” (lecture summary, slides)
- “What exactly is going on in their heads?” (And in mine?) Explaining “knowing disbelief” of climate change
- “You — talking to me? Are *you* talking to *me?” Actually, no, I’m not; the data don’t tell us how any individual thinks (or that your side is either “biased” or “right”).
- A case study: the HPV vaccine disaster (Science of Science Communication Course, Session 1)
- A complete and accurate account of how everything works
- A fragment: The concept of the science commmunication environment
- A nice empirical study of vaccine risk communication–and an unfortunate, empirically uninformed reaction to it
- A Pigovian tax solution (for now) for review/publication of studies that use M Turk samples
- A snapshot of the “white male effect” — i.e., “white male hierarch individualist effect” — on climate change
- A Tale of (the Tales Told About) Two Expert Consensus Reports: Death Penalty & Gun Control
- Actually, empirical evidence suggests a sure fire way to dramatically lower gun homicides: repeal drug laws
- Against “consensus messaging” . . .
- Against “consensus messaging” . . .
- Amazingly cool & important article on virulence of ideologically motivated reasoning
- Ambivalence about “messaging”
- An interesting story: on whether “strengthening self-defense law deters crime”
- Annual “new study” finds 97% of climate scientists believe in man-made climate change; public consensus sure to follow once news gets out
- Are *positions* on the deterrent effect of the death penalty & gun control possible & justifiable? Of course!
- Are judges politically biased? New paper, new study, new methods, new body piercings–new new new!
- Are people more conservative when “primed for reflection” or when “primed for intuition”? Apparently both . . . . (or CRT & identity-protective reasoning Part 2^8)
- As their science comprehension increases, do members of the public (a) become more likely to recognize scientific consensus exists on human-caused climate change; (b) become more politically polarized on whether human-caused climate change is happening; or (c) both?!
- Bounded rationality, unbounded out-group hate
- Browse Papers
- CCP’s Evidence-based Science Communication Initiative
- CCP/Annenberg PPC Science of Science Communication Lab, Session 2: Measuring relative curiosity
- Checking in on the “white male effect” for risk perception
- Climate change & the media: what’s the story? (Answer: expressive rationality)
- Climate change polarization “fast and slow”
- Climate change polarization “fast and slow”
- Climate Science Communication and the Measurement Problem
- Climate science literacy, critical reasoning, and independent thinking …
- Cognitive dualism and beliefs as “dispositions to action” … a fragment
- Cognitive illiberalism & expressive overdetermination … a fragment
- Cognitive reasoning-style measures other than CRT *are* valid–but for what?
- Cognitive reflection and “belief in” evolution: critically engaging the evidence
- Coin toss reveals that 56% (+/- 3%, 0.95 LC) of quarters support NSA’s “metadata” monitoring policy! Or why it is absurd to assign significance to survey findings that “x% of American public” thinks y about policy z
- Communicating Scientific Consensus: John Cook responds
- Congratulations, tea party members: You are just as vulnerable to politically biased misinterpretation of science as everyone else! Is fixing this threat to our Republic part of your program?
- Constructing an “Ordinary climate science intelligence” assessment: a fragment …
- Coolest article of the yr– hot hands down!
- Could geoengineering cool the climate change debate?
- Critical thinking about public opinion on climate change
- Cultural “fact polarization” trumps cultural “value” polarization — a fragment
- Cultural cognition & cat-risk perceptions: Who sees what & why?
- Cultural Cognition and Public Policy
- Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk
- Cultural Cognition Dictionary (or Glossary, whatever)
- Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus
- Cultural Cognition of the Risks and Benefits of Nanotechnology
- Cultural cognition of weather: a cool (or warm) guest post!
- Cultural cognition of weather: a cool (or warm) guest post!
- Cultural vs. ideological cognition, part 1
- Cultural vs. ideological cognition, part 3
- Culturally polarized Australia: Cross-cultural cultural cognition, Part 3 (and a short diatribe about ugly regression outputs)
- Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect
- Culture, rationality, and the tragedy of the science communications commons (lecture synopsis and slides)
- Dan Kahan’s Publications
- Dan M. Kahan Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law & Professor of Psychology Yale Law School
- Dan Vergano: Pole-vaulting a polarized public?
- Date-rape debate deja vu: the script is 20 yrs out of date
- Date-rape debate deja vu: the script is 20 yrs out of date
- Deja voodoo: the puzzling reemergence of invalid neuroscience methods in the study of “Democrat” & “Republican Brains”
- Dewey on curiosity & science comprehension
- Do conservatives become more concerned with climate risks as their trust in science increases?
- Do mass political opinions cohere? And do psychologists “generalize without evidence” more often than political scientists?
- Do more educated people see more risk — or less — in climate change?
- Do people with higher levels of “science aptitude” see more risk — or less — in climate change?
- Do Type S and Type M errors reflect confirmation bias?!
- Does “climate science literacy trump ideology” in Australia? Not as far as I can tell! Guy et al., Effects of knowledge & ideology part 1
- Doing science is different from communicating it — even when the science is the science of science communication
- Don’t be a science miscommunicator’s dope (or dodo)
- Don’t select on the dependent variable in studying the science communication problem
- Donald Trump: Science Communication Environment Polluter-in-Chief
- Entries by Dan Kahan (954)
- Entries by Dan Kahan (954)
- Ethical guidelines for science communication informed by cultural cognition research
- Evidence-based Science Filmmaking
- Evidence-based Science Filmmaking Initiative
- Finally: decisive, knock-down, irrefutable proof of the ideological symmetry of motivated reasoning
- First National Risk & Culture Study
- Five theses on science communication: the public and decision-relevant science, part 2
- Fixing the Communications Failure
- Fooled twice, shame on who? Problems with Mechanical Turk study samples, part 2
- For the 10^6 time: GM foods is *not* polarizing issue in the U.S., plus an initial note on Pew’s latest analysis of its “public-vs.-scientists” survey
- Geoengineering & the cultural plasticity of climate change risk perceptions: Part I
- Geoengineering and the Science Communication Environment: A Cross-Cultural Experiment
- Geoengineering the science communication environment: the cultural plasticity of climate change risks part II
- Getting the Most Out of Replication Studies
- Got facts? The boring, ignorant, anti-liberal, science-communication-environment polluting “who is more anti-science” game
- Grading the 2015 version of Pew study of public attitudes toward science
- Grading the 2015 version of Pew study of public attitudes toward science
- Guest post: Some weird things in measuring belief in human-caused climate change
- Gun Risk Perceptions
- Have Republicans changed views on evolution? Or have creationists changed party? Pew’s (half-released) numbers don’t add up …
- Hey everybody — take the cool CCP/APPC “Political Polarization Literacy” test!
- Hey, everyone! Try your hand at graphic reporting and see if you can win the Gelman Cup!
- Holy smokes! The “‘hot-hand fallacy’ fallacy”!
- How are climate skepticism, disbelief in evolution & vaccine hesitancy related?
- How big a difference in mean CRT scores is “big enough” to matter? or NHT: A malignant craft norm, part 2
- How religiosity and science literacy interact: Evolution & science literacy part 2
- How should science museums communicate climate science? (lecture summary & slides)
- How to recognize asymmetry in motivated reasoning if/when you see it
- How would scientists do on a public “science literacy” test — and should we care? Stocklmayer & Bryant vs. NSF Indicators “Science literacy” scale part 2
- HPV Vaccine
- I agree with Chris Mooney — on *the* most important thing
- I see “They Saw a Protest”
- Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study
- If you think GM food & vaccine risk perceptions have any connection to the “climate change risk perception” family, think again
- In awe of the Industrial Strength Risk Perception Measure. . . .
- Industrial strength risk perception measure
- Is “shaming” an effective way to counteract biased information processing? A preliminary investigation
- Is A. Gelman trying to provoke me, or is that just my narcissism speaking?
- Is cultural cognition a bummer? Part 1
- Is cultural cognition an instance of “bounded rationality”? A ten-yr debate
- Is cultural cognition the same thing as (or even a form of) confirmation bias? Not really; & here’s why, and why it matters
- Is disgust “conservative”? Not in a Liberal society (or likely anywhere else)
- Is ideologically motivated reasoning rational? And do only conservatives engage in it?
- It’s journal club time (episode 391)! Lewandowsky et al. on scientific consensus
- It’s that time again: Science of Science Communication course in Spring Term
- Kahan on Cook et al.: 4 points
- Let it be? Measuring partisan reactions to existing mandatory vaccination laws
- Let’s keep discussing M Turk sample validity
- Lewandowsky on “knowing disbelief”
- Likelihood Ratio ≠ 1 Journal (LR ≠1J)
- Making Climate-Science Communication Evidence-based—All the Way Down
- Making sense of the ” ‘hot hand fallacy’ fallacy,” part 1
- MAPKIA! “answer” episode 1: The interaction effect of religion & science comprehension on perceptions of climate change risk
- MAPKIA! Episode 31 “Answer”: culturally programmed risk predispositions alert to “fracking” but say “enh” (pretty much) to GM foods
- Measuring “Ordinary Science Intelligence” (Science of Science Communication Course, Session 2)
- Measuring “ordinary science intelligence”: a look under the hood of OSI_2.0
- Misconceptions, Misinformation, and the Logic of Identity-Protective Cognition
- Misinformation and climate change conflict
- Mitigation & adaptation: Two remedies for a polluted science communication environment
- Modeling the incoherence of coherence based reasoning: report from Law & Cognition 2016
- Money talks, & without the bias of cultural cognition: so why not listen?
- Mooney’s revenge?! Is there “asymmetry” in Motivated Numeracy?
- More conversation — & an announcment of my commitment to the same
- More GM food risk data to chew on–compliments of GSS
- More market consensus on climate change: 97% of insurance companies agree (& hedge funds too!)
- More on “Krugman’s symmetry proof”: it’s not whether one gets the answer right or wrong but how one reasons that counts
- More on (non)relationship between disgust & perceived risks of vaccines & GM foods
- More on disgust: Both liberals and conservatives *feel* it, but what contribution is it really making to their moral appraisals?
- More on Hameed’s “Pakistani Dr” — “explaining contradictory beliefs” begs the question
- More on ideological symmetry of motivated reasoning (but is that really what’s important?)
- More on public “trust of scientists”: *You* tell *me* what it means!
- Motivated consequentialist reasoning
- Motivated Numeracy (new paper)!
- Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government
- Motivated reasoning & its cognates
- Motivated System 2 Reasoning (MS2R): a Research Program
- Motivated system 2 reasoning–experimental evidence & its significance for explaining political polarization
- Mystery solved? Age, political knowledge, and political polarization
- Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions
- Not very reflective tea-party/Republicans
- Now, getting back to disgust: we’ve done guns & drones; what about *vaccines*?
- Nullius in verba? Surely you are joking, Mr. Hooke! (or Why cultural cognition is not a bias, part 1)
- On becoming part of a polluted science communication environment while studying it….
- Osi 2
- Pakistani Dr & Kentucky Farmer cause uprising of agitated reflection at Annenberg Center!
- Partisan Media Are Not Destroying America
- Perplexed–once more–by “emotions in criminal law,” Part 2: The “evaluative conception”
- Pew on Climate Polarization: Glimpses of cognitive dualism . . .
- Polarization on policy-relevant science is not the norm (the “silent denominator” problem)
- Politically nonpartisan folks are culturally polarized on climate change
- Projects
- Proof of ideologically motivated reasoning–strong vs. weak
- Protecting the Vaccine Science Communication Environment
- Public Attitudes Toward Childhood Vaccines
- Question: Who is more disposed to motivated reasoning on climate change — hierarchical individualists or egalitarian communitarians? Answer: Both!
- R^2 (“r squared”) envy
- Reflections on “System 2 bias,” part 1 of 2 (I think)
- Replicate “Climate-Science Communication Measurement Problem”? No sweat (despite hottest yr on record), thanks to Pew Research Center!
- Report from Garrison Institute Climate Change conference: the good & not so good…
- Response: An “externally-valid” approach to consensus messaging
- Return of the chick sexers . . .
- Science and public policy: Who distrusts whom about what?
- Science and the craft norms of science journalism, Part 2: Making craft norms evidence based
- Science curiosity & climate change (de)polarization (new paper)
- Science curiosity and identity-protective cognition … a glimpse at a possible (negative) relationship
- Science curiosity research program
- Science curiosity vs. politically motivated reasoning: An experimental steel cage match!
- Science journalists: Ask not what the science of science communication can do for you . . .
- Science literacy & cultural polarization: it doesn’t happen *just* with global warming, but it also doesn’t happen for *all* risks. Why?
- Science literacy and political polarization
- Scientists discover source of public controversy on GM food risks: bitter cultural division between scaredy cats and everyone else!
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- Second National Risk & Culture Study
- Serious problems with “the strongest evidence to date” on consensus messaging …
- Sitemap
- So what is “the best available scientific evidence” anyway?
- So you want to meet the ‘Pakistani Dr’? Just pay a visit to the Kentucky Farmer
- Some data on education, religiosity, ideology, and science comprehension
- Some experimental data on CRT, ideology, and motivated reasoning (probing Mooney’s Republican Brain)
- Some more canned data on religiosity & science attitudes
- storage/kahan_sencer_9_28_14.pptx
- The (non)relationship between “believing in” evolution and being engaged by evolutionary science
- The (non)relationship between “believing in” evolution and being engaged by evolutionary science
- The black and white — but mainly gray — of gun control and drug prohibition, part 1
- The black and white — but mainly gray — of gun control and drug prohibition, part 2
- The cultural certification of truth in the Liberal Republic of Science (or part 2 of why cultural cognition is not a bias)
- The culturally polarizing effect of the “anti-science trope” on vaccine risk perceptions
- The declining authority of science? (Science of Science Communication course, Session 3)
- The earth is (still) round, even at P < 0.005
- The evolution debate isn’t about science literacy either
- The false and tedious “defective brain” meme
- The Goldilocks “theory” of public opinion on climate change
- The Ideological Symmetry of Motivated Reasoning
- The impact of “science consensus” surveys — a graphic presentation
- The Impact of Ad Hoc Vaccine Risk Communication
- The Liberal Republic of Science, part 1: the concept of “political regime”
- The Liberal Republic of Science, part 2: What is it?!
- The Liberal Republic of Science, part 3: Popper’s Revenge….
- The Liberal Republic of Science, part 4: “A new political science …”
- The logic of reciprocity–and the illogic of empirically uninformed vaccine risk communication
- The making of a Pakistani Veterinarian in Kentucky: cognitive apartheid vs. cognitive dualism
- The more you know, the more you … Climate change vs. GM foods
- The NRA’s “expressive-rope-a-dope-trick”
- The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks
- The quality of the science communication environment and the vitality of reason
- The relationship of LR ≠1J concept to “adversarial collaboration” & “replication” initiatives
- The science communication problem: one good explanation, four not so good ones, and a fitting solution
- The science of protecting the science communication environment
- The Science of Science Communication
- The Science of Science Communication
- The Southeast Florida Evidence-based Science Communication Initiative
- The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change
- The trust-in-science *particularity thesis* … a fragment
- The value of civic science literacy
- There is pervasive cultural consensus on the value of childhood vaccines in the U.S.; so why do people *think* that being anti-vaccine reflects any particular cultural predisposition?
- They’ve already gotten the memo! What the public (Rs & Ds) think “climate scientists believe”
- Three theories of why we see ideological polarization on facts
- Timely resistance to pollution of the science communication environment: Genetically modified foods in the US, part 3
- Tragedy of the Science-Communications Commons
- Trend in conservative distrust of scientists: what does it mean?
- Trust in science & perceptions of GM food risks — does the GSS have something to say on this?
- Two common (& recent) mistakes about dual process reasoning & cognitive bias
- U.S. risk-perception/polarization snapshot
- Unconfounding knowledge from cultural identity–as big a challenge for measuring the climate-science literacy of middle schoolers as grown ups
- Undertheorized and unvalidated: Stocklmayer & Bryant vs. NSF Indicators “Science literacy” scale part I
- Vaccine Risk Perception Report
- Vaccine risk perceptions and risk communication: study conclusions & recommendations
- Vaccines and the “anti-science” trope
- Wanna see more data? Just ask! Episode 1: another helping of GM food
- Watching (resisting) pollution of the science communication environment in real time: genetically modified foods in the US, part 1
- We are *all* Pakistani Drs/Kentucky Farmers, Part 1: Manny’s perspective(s)
- We aren’t polarized on GM foods– no matter what the result in Washington state
- Weekend update: “Culture is prior to fact” & what that implies about resolving political conflict over risk
- Weekend update: “Knowing disbelief in evolution”– a fragment
- Weekend update: Another helping of evidence on what “believers” & “disbelievers” do & don’t “know” about climate science
- Weekend update: cognitive illiberalism–what is it? & what does it have to do with the Constitution?
- Weekend update: Debate heats up on impact of melting north pole on sea level rise!
- Weekend update: Disentanglement Principle, A Lesson from SE Fla Climate Political Science Lecture (& slides)
- Weekend update: In quest of 3d graphic for risk perception distributions
- Weekend update: OMG– we are now as politically polarized over cell phone radiation as over GM food risks!!!
- Weekend update: Pew’s disappointing use of invalid survey methods on GM food risk perceptions
- Weekend update: Some research on climate literacy to check out
- Weekend update: Still fooled by non-randomness? Some gadgets to help you *see* the ” ‘hot hand’ fallacy” fallacy
- Weekend update: Tedx restored to youtube
- Weekend update: The distracting, counterproductive “97% consensus” debate grinds on
- Weekend update: You’d have to be science illiterate to think “belief in evolution” measures science literacy
- Well, things are going slowly in the kitchen, so here’s another “vaccine risk perception” appetizer — on the house
- Well, things are going slowly in the kitchen, so here’s another “vaccine risk perception” appetizer — on the house
- What “climate skeptics” have in common with “believers”: a stubborn attraction to evidence-free, just-so stories about the formation of public risk perceptions
- What “bodycams” can and can’t be expected to do. . . plus coolest study of the year
- What accounts for public conflict over science–religiosity or political predispositions? Here are some data: you declare the winner in this RAT vs. CAT fight!
- What are fearless white hierarchical individualist males afraid of? Lots of stuff!
- What do I think of Mooney’s “Republican Brain”?
- What do polluted & nonpolluted science communication environments *look* like? & how about childhood vaccines?….
- What does “disbelief” in evolution *mean*? What does “belief” in it *measure*? Evolution & science literacy part 1
- What does a valid climate-change risk-perception measure *look* like?
- What does Christie know that the rest of us don’t? My guess is nothing (or even less that that actually)
- What inferences can be drawn from *empirical evidence* about the science-communication impact of using the term “climate change denier”?
- What is a “cultural style”? And some thoughts about convergent validity
- What is the *message* of real-world “scientific consensus” messaging? Ruminations on the external validity of climate-science-communication studies, part 3
- What is the evidence that an “anti-vaccination movement” is “causing” epidemics of childhood diseases in US? (“HFC! CYPHIMU?” Episode No. 2)
- What is to be done?
- What SE Florida can teach us about the *political* science of climate change
- What sorts of inferences can/can’t be drawn from the “Republican shift” (now that we have enough information to answer the question)?
- What the Gang of 32 at Science got wrong–and what they got right…
- What would I advise climate science communicators?
- What you “believe” about climate change doesn’t reflect what you know; it expresses *who you are*
- What’s a “valid” sample? Problems with Mechanical Turk study samples, part 1
- What’s to explain? Kulkarni on “knowing disbelief”
- What’s that hiding behind the poll? Perceiving public perceptions of biotechnology
- Who distrusts whom about what in the climate science debate?
- Who fears childhood vaccines and why? Research report & project
- Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn’t, and Why? An Experimental Study
- Who fears what & why? Trust but verify!
- Who has a better comprehension of science–“skeptics” or “nonskeptics”?
- Who needs to know what from whom about climate science
- Whose Eyes Are You Going to Believe? An Empirical Examination of Scott v. Harris
- Why cultural predispositions matter & how to measure them: a fragment …
- Why the science of science communication needs to go back to highschool (& college; punctuated with visits to museum & science film-making studio)
- Why We Are Poles Apart on Climate Change
- Wild wild horses couldn’t drag me away: four “principles” for science communication and policymaking
- Wisdom from Silver’s Signal & Noise, part 2: Climate change & the political perils of forecasting maturation
- Women for & against Trump: who sees what & why . . . .
- WSMD? JA! “Confidence intervals” for “Political Polarization Literacy” test
- Yet another installment of: “I only *study* science communication …”
- You guessed it: some more cultural cognition glossary/whatever entries–affect heuristic & conflict entrepreneurs
- Zelig Problem
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