Neutral Principles, Motivated Cognition, and Some Problems for Constitutional
Law Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus
Not exact matches
Dan Kahan, professor of
law and psychology at Yale Law School, sees public understanding of science through what he and other researchers call cultural cogniti
law and psychology at Yale
Law School, sees public understanding of science through what he and other researchers call cultural cogniti
Law School, sees public understanding of science through what he and other researchers call
cultural cognition.
«The scientists should just tell us what they know and not worry too much about whether there's too much gloom and doom in it,» says Dan Kahan, a Yale
law and psychology professor who leads the
Cultural Cognition Project, studying public perceptions of risk.
The team became interested in curiosity because of its ongoing collaborative research project to improve public engagement with science documentaries involving the
Cultural Cognition Project at Yale
Law School, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tangled Bank Studios at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Last year the
Cultural Cognition Lab at Yale
Law school revealed similar conclusions to the recent Duke findings.
Yale
Law study, entitled «Identity - protective
Cognition Thesis» (ICT),» treats
cultural conflict as disabling the faculties that members of the public use to make sense of decision relevant science.
His august title there is Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of
Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale
Law School, but my favorite incarnation of Kahan is as the driving force behind the
Cultural Cognition Project, which has shown empirically that powerful predispositions shape how we select and react to information.
The piece spends quite a bit of time, appropriately on the fascinating work of Dan Kahan, the Yale
law professor who is a leader of the ongoing «
Cultural Cognition» research project and was the focus of my piece on how one can choose a Nobel Prize winner in physics to suit just about any view on human - driven climate change.
The paper, «
Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus,» was written by Dan Kahan, a
law professor at Yale, University of Oklahoma political science professor Hank Jenkins - Smith and Donald Braman, a
law professor at George Washington University, and is scheduled for publication in the Journal of Risk Research.
One recent study, published by Yale
Law School's
Cultural Cognition Project, found that conservatives become less skeptical about global warming if they first read articles suggesting nuclear energy or geoengineering as solutions.
But a study by the
Cultural Cognition Project (published in the Harvard Law Review) finds that perceptions of risk among persons who viewed the tape were highly conditional on those persons» cultural wor
Cultural Cognition Project (published in the Harvard
Law Review) finds that perceptions of risk among persons who viewed the tape were highly conditional on those persons»
cultural wor
cultural worldviews.
The
Cultural Cognition Project at Yale
Law School 2013b [cited Mar 1 2014].
The
Cultural Cognition Project at Yale
Law School 2013 [cited Mar 1 2014].
Law and Human Behavior, Forthcoming,
Cultural Cognition Project Working Paper No. 47, Harvard
Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08 - 21
34, pp. 501 - 16, 2010,
Cultural Cognition Project Working Paper No. 38, Harvard
Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08 - 19, Yale
Law School, Public
Law Working Paper No. 163
Shortly afterwards I got an email from Dan Kahan, one of the academics involved, pointing me to work done by him and his colleagues on the
Cultural Cognition Project at Yale
Law School.