Sentences with phrase «cultural cognition shapes»
The study presents both correlational and experimental evidence confirming that cultural cognition shapes individuals» beliefs about the existence of scientific consensus, and the process by which they form such beliefs, relating to climate change, the disposal of nuclear wastes, and the effect of permitting concealed possession of handguns.
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The Cultural Cognition Project is a group of scholars interested in studying how cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy Cultural Cognition Project is a group of scholars interested in studying how cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy beliefs.
As I stressed, what social scientists call «cultural cognition» is only one factor shaping perceptions of phenomena revealed by science.
I agree that cultural cognition — the idea that we shape our views so they agree with those in the groups with which we most closely identify, in the name of acceptance by our group and thus of safety — powerfully explains the polarized passions over whether climate change is «real,» the «debate» that gets most of the attention about public opinion.
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.
These relationships, moreover, fit the cultural cognition hypothesis: that is, rather than directly influencing OCL support, cultural values, mediated by affect, shaped individuals» perceptions of how effectively OCLs promote public health and safety.