Sentences with phrase «protective cognition»

Culture and Identity - Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception

Disputes set in motion by identity - protective cognition and fueled by naïve realism occupy a prominent place in our political life.

In short, we find little evidence of identity - protective cognition and no evidence of belief polarization across these groups.

Identity - protective cognition can manifest itself in a variety of ways.

To bounce off a comment I wrote downstairs... it seems to me that those who are most «adept» at avoiding polarization on scientific issues are those who are most thorough in employing basic tools of accurate «perspective taking,» which in turn largely reflects an explicit intent to employ tools that mitigate the influences of motivated reasoning and cultural cognition and identity - protective cognition.

My own research on «debiasing» cultural cognition rests on the premise that identity - protective cognition (a cousin of implicit social cognition) disappoints normative commitments that ordinary citizens have.

What empirical study suggests is the (or at least one hugely important) source of SCP is identity - protective cognition, the species of motivated reasoning that involves forming perceptions of fact that express and reinforce one's connection to important affinity groups.

Some degree of fear is rather normal given the way humans approach risk, particularly with something like the risks from radiation, and particularly given inherent trust that comes from for - profit overlay onto the «common good» and (IMO) laying that fear exclusively at the feet of environmentalists, or simply labeling it as irrational, is more a product of ideologically - driven identity - protective cognition and tribalism on the part of nuclear proponents than a useful ingredient for making progress on energy policy development.

He's done extensive research into the resilience of perceptions, regardless of contrary information, and finds strong evidence of «identity - protective cognition» among people of all different worldviews.

Because of identity protective cognition (Sherman and Cohen 2006; Kahan et al. 2007) and affect (Peters, Burraston, and Mertz 2004), such a person is highly likely to start with a risk perception that is associated with her cultural values.

It's what Dan Kahan of the Cultural Cognition project at Yale calls identity - protective cognition.

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.

According to the literature on «identity protective cognition,» people believe messages coming from the people they identify with most and ignore messages that are contrarian, Dunlap said.

Kahan calls this «identity protective cognition thesis», which is a self - sabotage of cognitive ability where it conflicts with a deeply - held belief.

Not exact matches

«The Mediterranean and DASH diets have been shown to be protective against coronary artery disease and stroke, but it seems the nutrients emphasized in the MIND diet may be better suited to overall brain health and preserving cognition,» Cherian said.

And I would offer a similar criticism of that as well, as IMO, you neither ground that form of analogizing in a scientific manner; as I have told you, I think that your inclusion and exclusion criteria selection process is quite arbitrary, and I don't think that it is coincidence that it confirms your distinction of a group you belong to («skeptics») from a group you criticize («realists») in ways that (1) reaffirm a superiority in the group you belong to and, (2) I consider to be superficial and not meaningful as compared to the vastly more important underlying similarities (e.g., the tendency toward identity protective behavior, motivated reasoning, cultural cognition, confirmation bias, emotively - influenced reasoning, etc.)...

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

In support of this hypothesis, high levels of family achievement orientation (e.g., the emphasis a family places on achievement and competition), overly controlling, protective, and overly absent parenting styles have been found to significantly predict cognitions of impostor phenomenon in both predominately White college and adult samples (e.g., King and Cooley 1995; Li et al. 2014; Want and Kleitman 2006).