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How does your identity influence what you believe? It's more complicated than you think (Ben Tappin)
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Partisan disagreement over policy-relevant empirical facts is a salient feature of contemporary politics. A common inference in behavioral science is that people’s motivation to reach a conclusion that confirms their political group identity causally affects their reasoning. So there's all this disagreement because people are just following the tenets of their tribe.
But according to cognitive scientist Ben Tappin (MIT), it's not that simple.
Here's what we talk about:
- What explains disagreements on empirically solvable disputes like the reality of climate change? Why don't people just converge on the facts?
- "Cultural cognition" or "Identity-protective cognition": How social incentives influence beliefs
- Experimental evidence for cultural cognition
- Maybe these results are not due to political group identities contaminating people's reasoning. But just due to plain old boring prior beliefs
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Mentioned papers:
- Koehler, J. (1993): The Influence of Prior Beliefs on Scientific Judgments of Evidence Quality
- Tappin, B., & Gadsby, S. (2019). Biased belief in the Bayesian brain: A deeper look at the evidence.
- Tappin, B. M. (2021). Exposure to Persuasive Messaging Changes Partisan Attitudes Even in the Face of Countervailing Leader Cues.
- Tappin, B. M., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2020). Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: Why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference.
- Tappin, B. M., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2021). Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and politically motivated reasoning.
- Kunda, Z. (1987). Motivated inference: Self-serving generation and evaluation of causal theories.
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How does your identity influence what you believe? It's more complicated than you think (Ben Tappin)
Gearchiveerde serie ("Inactieve feed" status)
When? This feed was archived on October 26, 2023 10:08 (). Last successful fetch was on May 30, 2023 02:33 ()
Why? Inactieve feed status. Onze servers konden geen geldige podcast feed ononderbroken ophalen.
What now? You might be able to find a more up-to-date version using the search function. This series will no longer be checked for updates. If you believe this to be in error, please check if the publisher's feed link below is valid and contact support to request the feed be restored or if you have any other concerns about this.
Manage episode 346487718 series 2968120
Partisan disagreement over policy-relevant empirical facts is a salient feature of contemporary politics. A common inference in behavioral science is that people’s motivation to reach a conclusion that confirms their political group identity causally affects their reasoning. So there's all this disagreement because people are just following the tenets of their tribe.
But according to cognitive scientist Ben Tappin (MIT), it's not that simple.
Here's what we talk about:
- What explains disagreements on empirically solvable disputes like the reality of climate change? Why don't people just converge on the facts?
- "Cultural cognition" or "Identity-protective cognition": How social incentives influence beliefs
- Experimental evidence for cultural cognition
- Maybe these results are not due to political group identities contaminating people's reasoning. But just due to plain old boring prior beliefs
Find us:
Mentioned papers:
- Koehler, J. (1993): The Influence of Prior Beliefs on Scientific Judgments of Evidence Quality
- Tappin, B., & Gadsby, S. (2019). Biased belief in the Bayesian brain: A deeper look at the evidence.
- Tappin, B. M. (2021). Exposure to Persuasive Messaging Changes Partisan Attitudes Even in the Face of Countervailing Leader Cues.
- Tappin, B. M., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2020). Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: Why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference.
- Tappin, B. M., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2021). Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and politically motivated reasoning.
- Kunda, Z. (1987). Motivated inference: Self-serving generation and evaluation of causal theories.
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