Browsing by Subject "motivated reasoning"
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Bayesian versus politically motivated reasoning in human perception of climate anomalies
(IOP Publishing, 2017-10-30)In complex systems where humans and nature interact to produce joint outcomes, mitigation, adaptation, and resilience require that humans perceive feedback-signals of health and distress-from natural systems. In many ... -
Motivated Misperception? Party, Education, Partisan News, and Belief in “Death Panels”
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2013-03-01)This study drew on the literature in motivated reasoning and 2009 Pew survey data to examine the roles of partisanship, education, news exposure, and their interactions in the misperception that health care reform would ...