Exactly. That's what Kanai, Eidelman, and Jost and Amodio among other psychologists have been finding. Jost and Amadio have come up with a very elegant theoretical model of how this works. If anyone is interested I pulled a copy of the paper in pdf form, so just let me know.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/conspiracy-theory-climate-change-science-psychology.html > > "But, over all, the trends were clear. The more people believed in > free-market ideology, the less they believed in climate science; the more > they accepted science in general, the more they accepted the conclusions of > climate science; and the more likely they were to be conspiracy theorists, > the less likely they were to believe in climate science. > > These results fit in with a longer literature on what has come to be known > as motivated reasoning. Other things being equal, people tend to believe > what they want to believe, and to disbelieve new information that might > challenge them. " > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:362713 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
