Sentences with phrase «how cultural cognition»

The talk, which I gave to faculty - workshop audiences who had read They Saw a Protest, first offers an analytically precise account of how cultural cognition can defeat Bayesian updating.

In the talk, I present evidence from that study, but I also connect the two - channel strategy more systematically to a general model of how cultural cognition interacts with all manner of information processing.

My point was that, if we accept this basic story (it's too simple, even as an account of how cultural cognition works; but that's in the nature of «models» & should give us pause only when the simplification detracts from rather than enhances our ability to predict and manage the dynamics of the phenomenon in question), then there's no reason to view the valences of the cultural meanings attached to crediting climate change risk as fixed or immutable.

Not to deny by any means the importace of thinking about the US vs. UK differences — in public opinion & in how public opinion bears on political decisionmaking — but we did use our framework to test how cultural cognition, measured w / our scales, affects English (yes, English; not entire UK) public engagement with informaton on climate change.

Not exact matches

In their February 2010 article entitled «Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus», Dan Kahan, Hank Jenkins - Smith and Donald Braman examine the tendency of individuals to perceive risk with biases congenial to their visions of how society should be organized.

«Cultural cognition can influence everything from what people believe they have seen with their own eyes to how they perform a mathematical calculation,» he told me.

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.

Theories like Bloom's Taxonomy, the SAM and ADDIE models, situated cognition, and socio - cultural learning theories will help you have a firm grasp on how the human mind absorbs, assimilates, and retains information.

Finally, the Institute focuses on how the development of cognition can aid in the analysis and design of effective literacy, mathematics and science instruction, taking into account how the social and cultural dimensions influence learners and outcomes.

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.»

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.

How could they be when «cultural cognition» and «consensus messaging» are two orthogonal concepts?

* How is it, btw, that you have come to determine that Dan's orientation leads to a cultural cognition?

I was interested in the climate wars prior to that — but hearing what she had to say piqued my interest because for quite a while I have been interested in what sorts of things bias how people reason I have been particularly interested in how people use pattern - finding to make sense of the world, and how people's cultural / social / ideological / experiential / psychological identifications affect their cognition and reasoning.

I believe that the cultural cognition of present day climate change discussions can not be conducted without understanding of how these underlying philosophies affect modern attitudes.

the cultural cognition project does controlled experiments to test the effect of ideology on how people evaluate «expert» opinions.

Seems to me that the basic principles of motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, cultural cognition, group - think, etc., illustrate how these patterns in how people reason apply w / o differentiation by ideological orientation.

I'm not sure how much the counter-intuitive or paradoxical juxtaposition you highlight really informs about the dynamics of how motivated reasoning and cultural cognition play out in the climate change / political proxy food fight.

It would be perfectly fine, in my view, for a communicator to use cultural cognition research to identify how to promote open - minded engagement with information on the HPV vaccine.

That said: I would think that part of «cultural cognition» springs from how comments will be perceived regardless of the speaker's intention.

What we know about cultural cognition tells us much about how the formation of opinion in these issues is far more complicated than the simple mechanism you describe.

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.