Dan Kahan, professor of law and psychology at Yale Law School, sees public understanding of science through what he and other researchers
call cultural cognition.
Not exact matches
It's what Dan Kahan of the
Cultural Cognition project at Yale calls identity - protective c
Cognition project at Yale
calls identity - protective
cognitioncognition.
As I stressed, what social scientists
call «
cultural cognition» is only one factor shaping perceptions of phenomena revealed by science.
Cheadle's observations align very well with the research findings of Dan Kahan at Yale and others examining what Kahan
calls «
cultural cognition.»
The video, featuring the science writer Joe Hanson, explores a vital body of empirical studies on human risk misperception, showing how a rational view of long - term or diffuse threats is obscured by «status quo bias,» our «finite pool of worry,» our tendency to value tribal connections over reality through what researchers
call «
cultural cognition,» and other characteristics of what I
call our «inconvenient mind.»
The
cultural cognition of risk, sometimes
called simply
cultural cognition, is the hypothesized tendency of persons to form perceptions of risk and related facts that cohere with their self - defining values.
I'm not sure I'm going to be able to state this clearly but it touches on
cultural cognition and a particular thing I sometimes see at a number of blogs sometimes labeled skeptic, but many of which
call themselves «lukewarmer».