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Culture and Identity‐Protective Cognition: Explaining the White‐Male Effect in Risk Perception
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Why do white men fear various risks less than women and minorities? Known as the “white‐male effect,” this pattern is well documented but poorly understood. This article proposes a new explanation: identity‐protective cognition. Putting work on the cultural theory of risk together with work on motivated cognition in social psychology suggests that individuals selectively credit and dismiss asserted dangers in a manner supportive of their cultural identities. This dynamic, it is hypothesized, drives the white‐male effect, which reflects the risk skepticism that hierarchical and individualistic white males display when activities integral to their cultural identities are challenged as harmful. The article presents the results of an 1,800‐person study that confirmed that cultural worldviews interact with the impact of gender and race on risk perception in patterns that suggest cultural‐identity‐protective cognition. It also discusses the implications of these findings for risk regulation and communication.
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The paper proposes identity-protective cognition to explain the “white male effect” in risk perception: cultural worldviews shape risk assessments in ways that defend identities. In a 1,844-person U.S. survey, cultural worldviews strongly predicted environmental, gun, and abortion risk perceptions, and the white-male effect was culture-specific, largely attributable to hierarchical and individualistic white men.
Key findings
- The sample displayed the conventional white-male effect: white males were significantly less concerned about each risk evaluated. In Table 1, for example, hierarchical white males versus everyone else scored 2.66 vs. 3.02 on environmental risk, 2.13 vs. 2.47 on gun risk, and 2.61 vs. 2.92 on abortion risk.
- Cultural worldviews strongly predicted risk perceptions. For environmental risks, adding Individualism and Hierarchy increased explanatory power by about 20%; Hierarchy had the largest single effect, and the combined worldview variables explained over nine times as much variance as education and over three times as much as gender. For gun risks, worldview measures increased explanatory power by over 50% and combined explained almost 5 times as much variance as gender, 34 times as much as education, and 17 times as much as rural residence. For abortion risks, hierarchical worldview predicted greater concern and individualistic worldview predicted less; cultural scales added about 10% explanatory power and had a combined effect nearly five times that of education and almost double that of party affiliation and ideology combined.
- The white-male effect was culture-specific. Differences between white males and others were pronounced among hierarchical respondents for each risk and among individualists for every risk but abortion; they were muted or nonsignificant among egalitarian and communitarian respondents for gun and abortion risks. In environmental regressions, adding a “Hierarchical White Male” dummy made Female, Black, and Other Minority nonsignificant, confirming the white-male effect was attributable entirely to hierarchical white males. In gun regressions, the Female coefficient became nonsignificant after adding hierarchical and individualistic white-male dummies. In abortion regressions, adding a “Hierarchical White Female” dummy made Female nonsignificant.
- Anomalous finding: being African-American remained a significant predictor of greater abortion-risk concern even after cultural worldviews were controlled for; the paper calls its explanation conjectural and says it merits additional investigation.
Methods
- Nationwide random-digit-dial telephone survey conducted June–September 2004 with 1,844 U.S. residents aged 18 or older, including an oversample of 242 African-Americans. Sample included 519 white male, 707 white female, 153 black male, and 254 black female subjects; mean age was 39; average household income was between $40,000 and $50,000; average interview length was about 21 minutes; response rate was 42% and cooperation rate 59%.
- Cultural worldviews were measured with 32 items forming Communitarianism-Individualism (α = .77) and Egalitarianism-Hierarchy (α = .81) scales. Risk perceptions were measured for environmental risks (α = .72), gun risks (α = .83), and abortion risk via agreement with “Women who get abortions are putting their health in danger.” Other measures included demographics, sensation-seeking, religion, political ideology, and party affiliation.
- Analysis used group means and multivariate regressions with interaction terms and dummy variables for cultural-demographic groups. Missing data were imputed through multiple imputation with Stata’s MICE module, generating five imputed data sets. The sample had sufficient power to detect small effects (e.g., r = .10) at p = .01 in anticipated multivariate regressions.
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- The paper states its proof is “admittedly indirect” and calls for future experimental methods to corroborate the findings. It also says the mode of proof does not rule out alternative or supplemental mechanisms, including affect, biased assimilation, availability bias, and in-group/out-group dynamics such as naïve realism, reactive devaluation, and group polarization.
- The paper describes the African-American abortion-risk finding as the primary anomalous result and says its proposed explanation is “obviously conjectural” and merits additional investigation.
- Evident from the text: the study is a cross-sectional telephone survey with a 42% response rate and 59% cooperation rate, relying on self-reported attitudes; the African-American oversample was excluded from the Table 1 analysis to avoid overweighting African-Americans relative to white women and other minorities.
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“We find that individuals are disposed selectively to accept or dismiss risk claims in a manner that expresses their cultural values.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > Abstract
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“The significance of Female_x_Hierarchy shows that there was an interaction between gender and the grid or Egalitarianism-Hierarchy dimension of worldview.”
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“When risk-perceptions were examined for groups defined by combinations of demographic characteristics and cultural worldviews, the “white male effect” turned out to be highly culture specific (Table 1, Figure 4).”
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“The relative concerns of white females and male and female nonwhites varied across risks.”
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“Indeed, the significant influence of being African-American on risk perception disappeared once cultural orientation was taken into account.”
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“Gender remained a significant predictor after cultural worldviews were taken into account.”
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“Rather, as the positive coefficient associated with Female_x_Hierarchy conveys (Aiken & West, 1991;Jaccard & Potter, 1998), women discounted environmental risk less than men as their respective orientations became more hierarchical.”
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“For individualists, differences in the perceptions of white males and others were pronounced for evey risk but abortion.”
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“The difference between the mean risk perceptions of white men those of white females and minorities was pronounced among persons subscribing to hierarchical worldviews for each of the risks examined.”
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“The article presents the results of an 1,800-person study that confirmed that cultural worldviews interact with the impact of gender and race on risk perception in patterns that suggest cultural-identity-protective cognition.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > Abstract
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“Missing data were imputed through multiple imputation with Stata using the MICE (multivariate imputation by chained equations) module (Royston, 2004).Five imputed data sets were generated.”
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“Differences in the perceptions of white males and others for all risks were relatively muted among persons holding egalitarian and communitarian worldviews and were nonsignificant with respect to gun risks and abortion risks.”
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“As expected, persons who held relative hierarchical and individualistic outlooks-and particularly both simultaneously-were the least concerned about environmental risks and gun risks, while persons who held relatively egalitarian and communitarian views were most concerned.”
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“Each worldview variable was significant and had the predicted sign.”
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“With regard to abortion risks, in contrast, persons who were both relatively hierarchical and communitarian in their views were most concerned; individuals who had an egalitarian outlook, particularly those who qualified as Egalitarian Individualists, were least worried about the risk of abortion for women's health.”
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“When combined, they explain almost 5 times as much variance as gender, 34 times as much as education, and 17 times as much as residing in a rural environment.”
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“As predicted, egalitarian and communitarian worldviews predicted the belief that guns are dangerous, while hierarchical and individualistic worldviews predicted the belief that guns are safe.”
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“Hierarchy and Individualism have the first and second largest effect sizes, respectively, of all the independent variables.”
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“Those coefficients were not significant.”
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“Egalitarian and communitarian worldviews predicted risk-sensitivity, hierarchical and individualistic worldviews risk-skepticism, toward environmental risks.”
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“Hierarchy had the single largest effect of any independent variable, and the combined effect of the two worldview variables explained over nine times as much variance as education, and over three times as much as gender.”
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“There were significant (or borderline significant: p = .07for Fe-male_x_Individualism_x_Black) three-way interactions between gender, the cultural orientation variables, and Black, and between gender, individualism, and Other Minority.”
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“Being a woman remained a significant predictor of higher levels of concern about abortion risks, as did being African-American, once worldviews were taken into account in Model 2.”
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“Abortion-risk sensitivity, in contrast, grew in proportion to respondents' commitment to a hierarchical worldview but receded in proportion to their commitment to an individualistic as well as an egalitarian one.”
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“They explained 20 times as much -25-as party affiliation and ideology when combined, and 10 times as much as the religious affiliation variables when combined.”
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“Which type of gun risks alarmed respondents most also depended on cultural orientation: the more egalitarian and communitarian respondents became, the more concerned they were that insufficient regulation would lead to gun accidents and crime, whereas the more hierarchal and individualistic they became the more worried they were that excessive regulation would undermine the ability of law-abiding”
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“Our data also demonstrated that male and female African Americans were uniformly receptive to environmental risk claims ⎯ and no more so than whites once cultural orientation was controlled for.”
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“There no interaction between hierarchical worldviews and gender for African-Americans, and African-Americans on the whole see abortion as more dangerous than whites even after cultural orientation is taken into account.”
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“The coefficients for Black and Other Minority are significant but have negative signs, indicating that being a minority correlates with viewing guns as more safe once the effect of being a hierarchical white or individualistic male is controlled for.”
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“Their combined effect size is nearly five times that of education, almost double that of the combined effect of party affiliation and ideology, and over that of religious affiliations when combined.”
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“Individuals, according to the theory, selectively credit and dismiss claims of societal danger based on whether the putatively hazardous activity is one that defies or instead conforms to their cultural norms.”
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“The established empirical correlation between membership in cultural groups of these types and beliefs on societal risks constitutes a fertile testing ground for hypotheses about the contribution identity-motivated cognition is making to real-world conflict on issues of tremendous consequence.”
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“Accordingly, as a means of identity self-defense, individuals conform their appraisals of information in a manner that buttresses beliefs associated with belonging to particular groups (Cohen, Aronson & Steele, 2000;Cohen, 2003;Cohen, Sherman, Bastardi, Hsu, McGoey & Ross, in press).”
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“The statements were intended to form (and did form) two reliable scales: Communitarianism-Individualism (α = .77),which is patterned on the group dimension of the Douglas typology; and Egalitarianism-Hierarchy (α = .81),which is patterned on the grid dimension.”
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“If it turns out, then, that perceptions of risk do in fact strongly correlate with individuals' worldviews even after other pertinent individual characteristics are taken into account, that result would supply strong evidence that culture is motivating identity-protective cognition in the way we surmise.”
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“The cultural theory of risk, in turn, supplies a vivid and realistic picture of the types of groups and associated beliefs likely to generate identity-protective forms of cognition.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > C. Synthesis: Cultural-Identity-Protective Risk Perception
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“The cultural theory of risk perception (Douglas & Wildavsky, 1982;Rayner, 1992) asserts that individuals' perceptions of risk reflect and reinforce their commitments to visions of how society should be organized.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > A. The Cultural Theory of Risk
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“The cultural theory of risk perception suggests that individuals conform their view of how dangerous an activity is to their moral assessment of it.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > C. Some Practical Implications
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“Accordingly, when expert risk regulators dismiss public estimations of various risks as uninformed, they can just as easily be understood to be discounting the benefits that individuals attach to activities by virtue of their cultural worldviews.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > C. Some Practical Implications
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“But they also expose a host of new practical and moral challenges for reconciling the rational regulation of risk with democratic decisionmaking.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > V. Conclusion
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“These findings solve many long-standing theoretical puzzles about the nature and significance of variance in risk perception.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > V. Conclusion
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“We hypothesized that hierarchical women would be more risk-sensitive insofar as abortion rights are perceived to denigrate hierarchical norms that confer status on women for occupying domestic rather than professional roles.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > A. Summary of Key Findings
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“This is, however, an admittedly indirect form of proof.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > B. Outstanding Issues and Questions 1. Experimental Follow-ups
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“Their stance of fearlessness is convincingly attributable to identity-protective cognition insofar as they are the persons who need guns the most in order to occupy social roles and display individual virtues within their cultural communities.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > A. Summary of Key Findings
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“Because individuals' identities are threatened when they encounter information that challenges beliefs commonly held within their group (Cohen et al., in press), the result is political conflict over risk regulation among groups committed to opposing hierarchical and egalitarian, individualistic and communitarian worldviews.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > V. Conclusion
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“In selecting some risks for attention and dismissing others as unimportant, individuals are, effectively, advancing one culturally partisan vision of the ideal society over others (Kahan, in press).”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > C. Some Practical Implications
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“The mode of proof used in this study also does not rule out the possibility that alternative or supplemental mechanisms of cognition are also contributing to the impact of cultural worldviews on individual risk perceptions.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > B. Outstanding Issues and Questions 1. Experimental Follow-ups
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“Conservatively estimated, the survey response rate was 42%, and the cooperation rate was 59%, which means that roughly six-in-ten of those identified as eligible respondents completed the survey.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > Additional information
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The distribution of risk perceptions across persons can yield insight about the formation of those perceptions.
“The basic premise of the study was that the distribution of risk perceptions across persons can yield insight about the formation of those perceptions.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Cultural worldviews exert a causal influence on risk perceptions rather than merely being correlated with them.
“Model 2 adds the cultural worldviews variables.”
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The cultural worldview variables validly and reliably measure the group-grid cultural dispositions they are intended to measure.
“Each worldview variable was significant and had the predicted sign.”
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§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > High Low
“In Model 4, we added the dummy variable Hierarchical White Female.”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > V. Conclusion
“| Hierarchical White Female | | | | | .098*** |”
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§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > V. Conclusion
“Table: 2 Table 2 : Environmental Risk Perception Regression Models”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > V. Conclusion
“N = 1844. Dependent variable is Gun Risk Perception. Coefficients are semi-”
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§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > Model 5 tests for significant interactions between demographic characteristics and cultural
“Figure 6: Interaction of Communitarianism-Individualism with Gender and Race on Gun-Risk Perceptions White women: y = 4.04 -.58 x Hierarchy White men: y = 5 -.95 x Hierarchy Communitarian Individualist Worldview”
§ Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception > Model 5 tests for significant interactions between demographic characteristics and cultural
“Nonwhite men: y = 4.61 -.73 x Hierarchy Nonwhite women: y = 3.1 -.14 x Hierarchy”
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Li, Y., Wu, H., Greer, A., & Huntsman, D. O. (2022) · Weather Climate and Society · doi:10.1175/wcas-d-22-0018.1 · Cited by 7
What governs attitudes toward artificial intelligence adoption and governance?Preprint
O’Shaughnessy, M. R., Schiff, D. S., Varshney, L. R., Rozell, C. J., & Davenport, M. A. (2021) · doi:10.31219/osf.io/pkeb8 · Cited by 7
Ideology and the Microfoundations of Conflict
Müller, V., & Gries, T. (2024) · doi:10.1093/oso/9780197670187.001.0001 · Cited by 6
Measuring cultural identities in cultural theory survey research
Johnson, B. B., & Swedlow, B. (2024) · Social Science Quarterly · doi:10.1111/ssqu.13419 · Cited by 6
Rodríguez-Priego, N., & Montoro-Ríos, F. (2018) · Innovation, technology and knowledge management · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57318-2_4 · Cited by 6
Prokosch, M. L., Smith, C. T., Kerry, N., & von Meding, J. K. (2022) · Politics and the Life Sciences · doi:10.1017/pls.2022.20 · Cited by 5
“In turn, White men tend to perceive lesser risk from environmental threats like climate change (Kahan et al., 2007).”
Decolonial considerations of environmentalism: Observations from a (US) State Park
Lies, T. S., Adams, G., & Santangelo, B. (2022) · Psychology in society · doi:10.57157/pins2022vol64iss1a5453 · Cited by 7
Dunham, Y. C., Lieberman, E. S., & Snell, S. A. (2016) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147219 · Cited by 7
Evidence-Based Science Filmmaking Initiative: Study No. 1Preprint
Kahan, D. M. (2016) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2713563 · Cited by 7
Self-citationJohnson, B. B., Brandt, M. J., Swedlow, B., & Turner-Zwinkels, F. M. (2022) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.4050134 · Cited by 6
Desinformação, negacionismo e a pandemia
Perini‐Santos, E. (2022) · Filosofia Unisinos · doi:10.4013/fsu.2022.231.03 · Cited by 5
Savadori, L., Dickson, M. M., Micciolo, R., & Espa, G. (2022) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0274680 · Cited by 5
Gattinger, M. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24271-7 · Cited by 5
Oro över coronapandemin i det svenska samhället
Kulin, J., Sevä, I. J., Hjerm, M., & Connolly, F. F. (2021) · Sociologisk Forskning · doi:10.37062/sf.58.22104 · Cited by 10
Seeing Bullshit Rhetorically: Human Encounters and Cultural Values
Shedletsky, L. J. (2018) · Res Rhetorica · doi:10.29107/rr2018.4.3 · Cited by 4
“32Leonard Shedletsky, Seeing Bullshit Rhetorically... ● added, “whether or not that activity always qualifi es as an activity of bullshitting,” meaning that bullshit occurs even when people are not bullshitting.”
BackgroundResultInfluentialGender and Financial Risk: The U.S. and Brazil
Barber, D., Saadatmand, Y., & Kavoori, T. (2016) · Studies in Business and Economics · doi:10.1515/sbe-2016-0002 · Cited by 5
“Others have found a “white male effect” where white men were found to be more risk tolerant than white women and other ethnic categories of both sexes (Flynn et al., 1994; Kahan et al., 2007).”
BackgroundDemographics, Design, and Free Speech
Chemaly, S. (2019) · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190883591.003.0010 · Cited by 4
Why People Perceive Messages Differently: The Theory of Cognitive Mapping
Cohen, E. (2020) · Informing Science The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline · doi:10.28945/4629 · Cited by 6
“Likewise, the model can be connected to research on misinformation and groups along the lines of Kahan (2017) and Kahan et al. (2007).”
MethodVarieties of populism in 21st-century Latin America and their manifestations in regional integration
Velástegui, P. G., & Garrido-Salas, V. (2025) · Global Discourse · doi:10.1332/20437897y2025d000000050 · Cited by 3
The ‘White Male Effect’ in perceptions of risk of dying from COVID‐19
Luo, E., & Schnall, S. (2023) · Social and Personality Psychology Compass · doi:10.1111/spc3.12877 · Cited by 3
Predicting Perception of Risks and Benefits within Novel Domains
Kostovičová, L., Bašnáková, J., & Bačová, V. (2017) · Studia Psychologica · doi:10.21909/sp.2017.03.739 · Cited by 3
Income Tax and the Motivation to WorkPreprint
Rick, S. I., Paolacci, G., & Burson, K. A. (2015) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2655424 · Cited by 3
Vaisey, S., & Valentino, L. (2017) · SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) · doi:10.31235/osf.io/b7grn · Cited by 6
The critical role of emotional communication for motivated reasoning
Wolf, I., & Schröder, T. (2024) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-024-81605-6 · Cited by 7
Percepción del riesgo y compromiso por reducir el cambio climático global en España
Rodríguez-Priego, N., Montoro-Ríos, F. J., & Georgantzı́s, N. (2014) · Revista Internacional de Sociología · doi:10.3989/ris.2012.08.03 · Cited by 2
The effects of framing on support for political action on climate change
Schittecatte, G. (2015) · cIRcle (University of British Columbia) · doi:10.14288/1.0166359 · Cited by 1
What Explains Local Policy Elites' Preferences Toward Sustainable Energy Policy?Preprint
Tumlison, C., Button, E. D., Song, G., et al. (2017) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.3081623 · Cited by 2
“…view nature as fragile and easily damaged, but also because they firmly believe that stringent restrictions on current business practices within the market will reduce commercial activities that produce social inequality and the legitimization of “unconstrained selfinterest” (Kahan et al. 2007).”
InfluentialResisting State Capture as a Democratic Ideal
Bagg, S. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192848826.003.0008 · Cited by 1
Rozing, E., Rubino, E. C., Turner, A., & Larasatie, P. (2024) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0312949 · Cited by 1
Landrum, A. R., Stecula, D. A., & Motta, M. (2024) · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0012676 · Cited by 1
The Effect of Proximity to Energy Development on Public Attitudes: Fracking in the U.S.
Bugden, D. (2014) · Cited by 1
Bagg, S. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192848826.003.0010 · Cited by 1
Bagg, S. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192848826.003.0005 · Cited by 1
Belief Systems and Ideologies as Psychological Need Reconciliation
Müller, V., & Gries, T. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780197670187.003.0006 · Cited by 1
ten Kate, J., de Koster, W., & van der Waal, J. (2025) · European Societies · doi:10.1162/euso.a.24 · Cited by 1
Climate Change, Situational Theory of Problem Solving, and Issue Framing Effects
Burch, M. E. (2014) · Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) · Cited by 1
Brinker, D. L. (2012) · e-Publications@Marquette (Marquette University) · Cited by 1
Kester, J. (2014) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2487871 · Cited by 1
The Ideological Divide in Public Perceptions of Self-driving CarsPreprint
Peng, Y. (2020) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.3573880 · Cited by 1
Rickels, C. (2022) · doi:10.18297/etd/4015 · Cited by 1
Beliefs about Climate Science and Concern about Global Warming in the US Public, 2001-2010*
McCright, A. M., & Briggs, L. (2010)
Troubled masculinity : exploring gender identity and risk-taking following the death of a friend
Creighton, G. (2011) · cIRcle (University of British Columbia) · doi:10.14288/1.0064650
“Kahan et al. (2007) argue that a discrete group of the most privileged White males who share individualistic and hierarchal values, are much less risksensitive than minority men and women.”
BackgroundTesting the Cultural Cognition Hypothesis in a Canadian Undergraduate Student Population
Michalowski, W. (2014)
Understanding Parents’ Child Vaccination Behaviors in the United StatesPreprint
Song, G. (2017) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2954778
Microfinance institutions' failure to address poverty: A narrative critical literature review
Guðjónsson, S. (2017) · Tímarit um viðskipti og efnahagsmál · doi:10.24122/tve.a.2017.14.1.4
Examining Different Reasons Why People Accept Or Reject Scientific Claims
Lobato, E. J. C. (2017) · doi:10.30707/etd2017.lobato.e
Siqueira, D. P., & Curti, L. M. (2018) · Revista Direito em Debate · doi:10.21527/2176-6622.2018.49.248-276
New digital methods in a polluted information landscape
Leeke, P. A., & Thiruvenkataswami, S. (2021) · Developing Academic Practice · doi:10.3828/dap.2021.4
ADRENERGIC COMPONENTS OF ADIPOSE TISSUE METABOLISM
Brooker, W. D. (1965) · e-Publications@Marquette (Marquette University)
Gerken, M. (2022) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198857273.005.0001
Public Scientific Testimony II
Gerken, M. (2022) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198857273.003.0007
Metadata
- Authors
- Kahan, D. M., Braman, D., Gastil, J., Slovic, P., & Mertz, C. K.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- George Washington University (US)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- University of Oregon (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kahan, Dan M.
- Braman, Donald
- Gastil, John
- Slovic, Paul
- Mertz, C. K.
- Venue
- Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-09-11
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 465-505
- ISSN
- 1740-1453 (ISSN-L)
- 1740-1461
- OpenAlex
- W2084725137
- Semantic Scholar
- 5685fbc8fa1fa5b4e70827fc82daaf2a877b4024
- Cited by
- 136
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 12.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (publishedVersion)
- bepress Legal Repository (submittedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0242106)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Keywords
- risk perception, cultural identity, motivated cognition, gender differences, racial differences, cultural worldview, risk communication, risk regulation
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