The central
idea of cultural cognition is that attitudes and opinions that people adopt are as strongly influenced by their cultural values and identities as they are by objective fact.
What there is persuasive empirical evidence of, however, is the biasing impact
of cultural cognition on individuals» assessments of the impact of laws like these.
'' «That meaning inversion made hierarchical individualists more inclined to believe and egalitarian communitarians more inclined to be skeptical of climate change is a nice corroboration, I think,
of the cultural cognition thesis!»
The talk (particularly toward the end) describes a «two channel communication strategy» as a device for counteracting the distorting
effect of cultural cognition.
This all reinforces the importance of considering the power
of cultural cognition when pondering American polarization on climate, stem cells and a host of other issues underpinned by science — and the longstanding tendency of candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination to take unscientific positions.
Public reactions to the case display the characteristic
signature of cultural cognition — the tendency of people to fit the perception of legally consequential facts to their group commitments.
The influence
of cultural cognition explains why people with different outlooks and identities are forming such strong and divergent understandings of what happened despite their having almost no clear evidence to go on.
When mechanisms
of cultural cognition figure in her reasoning, a person processes information in a manner that is equivalent to one who is assigning new information probative weight based on its consistency with her prior estimation (Figure 9).
Wouldn't that be inconsistent with the
premise of cultural cognition - that people will filter (or disregard) any evidence so as to maintain their polarized perspective?
An interesting article on «emerging technology» risk perceptions, this paper also joins the ranks of ones reporting the
application of the Cultural Cognition Worldview scales to non-US samples.
It's necessarily difficult to discuss the merits and
implications of cultural cognition if you aren't familiar with the theory, of if you don't engage with the theory itself (not the least because your understanding may be incomplete).
The
nuances of cultural cognition that Marshall so ably reviews may explain polarization but they can not overcome it by the niceties of «reframing» and «culturally - appropriate» messengers alone.
He is a
member of the Cultural Cognition Project, an interdisciplinary team of scholars who use empirical methods to examine the impact of group values on perceptions of risk and related facts.
There we know that evidence on the extent and nature of such consensus can't pass through the
filter of cultural cognition (or can't unless the cultural meaning of the information is adjusted too).
The
dynamics of cultural cognition are most convincingly explained, I believe, as specific manifestations of the general contribution that cultural affinity makes to the reliable, every - day exercise of the ability of individuals to discern what is collectively known.
This commentary discusses the distinctive
features of cultural cognition as a conception of cultural theory, including its cultural worldview measures; its emphasis on social psychological mechanisms that connect individuals» risk perceptions to their cultural outlooks; and its practical goal of enabling self - conscious management of popular risk perceptions in the interest of promoting scientifically sound public policies that are congenial to persons of diverse outlooks.
Konrad has made reasonable arguments in support of a single, consistent claim: that non-truth-seeking reasoning is not needed to explain the
effects of cultural cognition, or at least that you haven't demonstrated such a need here.
The difficult task for those who understand the
phenomenon of cultural cognition and who favor democratic modes of policymaking is to devise procedures that assure that popularly responsive risk regulation is both rational and respectful of diverse cultural worldviews.
Actually, courts are in many respects way ahead of other institutions, in & out of government, in preparing themselves to play an intelligent role in managing the impact
of cultural cognition on factfinding.
If the information being transmitted along Channel 2 — the meaning channel — threatens a person's cultural identity, then various
mechanisms of cultural cognition will block out receipt of the content being transmitted along Channel 1, no matter how clear that information is.
An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms
of Cultural Cognition, 34 Law Human Behav 501 (2010).
Obviously judges fit that description, and in addition to reviewing studies that show the impact
of cultural cognition on public risk perceptions generally, I also showed how the same dynamics can affect jurors» perceptions of trial evidence.
An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition
Missing from Sunstein's impressive account, however, is any attention to the impact
of cultural cognition, the tendency of individuals to form risk perceptions that reflect and reinforce their cultural worldviews.