Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus
In this episode, our guest is Dan Kahan about his research into how people consume and interpret science news.
In an era of fake news, motivated reasoning, and alternative facts, important questions need to be asked about how people understand new information.
Dan is a member of the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale University, a group of scholars interested in studying how cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy beliefs.
In a paper titled Cultural cognition of scientific consensus, Dan and co-authors Hank Jenkins‐Smith and Donald Braman discuss the "cultural…
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