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The Politically Motivated Reasoning Paradigm, Part 1: What Politically Motivated Reasoning Is and How to Measure It
Abstract
Recent research identifiespolitically motivated reasoningas the source of persistent public conflict over policy‐relevant facts. This essay, the first in a two‐part set, presents a basic conceptual model—thePolitically Motivated Reasoning Paradigm—and an experimental setup—thePMRP design—geared to distinguishing the influence of PMRP from a truth‐seeking Bayesian process of information processing and from recurring biases understood to be inimical to the same. It also discusses alternative schemes for operationalizing “motivating” group predispositions and the characteristics of valid study samples for examining this phenomenon.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kahan, D. M.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kahan, Dan M.
- ORCID
- Kahan, Dan M.
- Venue
- Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-11-29
- Pages
- 1-16
- OpenAlex
- W2564709365
- Cited by
- 341
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 59 · 2022: 60 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 36 · 2019: 37 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 2
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Keywords
- cognitive biases
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