follow CCP

Recent blog entries
popular papers

Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing

What Is the "Science of Science Communication"?

Climate-Science Communication and the Measurement Problem

Ideology, Motivated Cognition, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study

'Ideology' or 'Situation Sense'? An Experimental Investigation of Motivated Reasoning and Professional Judgment

A Risky Science Communication Environment for Vaccines

Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government

Making Climate Science Communication Evidence-based—All the Way Down 

Neutral Principles, Motivated Cognition, and Some Problems for Constitutional Law 

Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus
 

The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Science Literacy and Climate Change

"They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction 

Geoengineering and the Science Communication Environment: a Cross-Cultural Experiment

Fixing the Communications Failure

Why We Are Poles Apart on Climate Change

The Cognitively Illiberal State 

Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn't, and Why? An Experimental Study

Cultural Cognition of the Risks and Benefits of Nanotechnology

Whose Eyes Are You Going to Believe? An Empirical Examination of Scott v. Harris

Cultural Cognition and Public Policy

Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who Perceives What, and Why, in "Acquaintance Rape" Cases

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

Fear of Democracy: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk

Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk

« Culture, worldviews, & risk perception (glossary entries) | Main | "Science curiosity" and "SCS", plus "Mobility and Stability hypotheses"--latest entries in Cultural Cognition Dictionary/Glossary (Whatever) »
Friday
Jan052018

New entries for CCP "glossary": cognitive dualism and the disentanglement principle

Still more for this dictionary/glossary in progress:

Cognitive dualism.  A theoretical account of reasoning that purports to reconcile opposing states of belief and disbelief in fundamental scientific facts. The theory posits that individuals variously endorse and reject such facts depending on which state—belief or disbelief—best enables such individuals to achieve context-specific goals.  Thus a science-trained professional might “believe in” human evolution when he or she is engaged in professional tasks that depend on the truth of that theory, yet still disbelieve in human evolution when he or she is acting as a member of a religious community, in which such disbelief enables her to both experience membership in and loyalty to such a community and to express the same. Farmers, too, have been observed to “disbelieve in” human-caused climate change when acting as members of their cultural communities, but to “believe in it” when endorsing farming practices that anticipate human-caused climate change. [Sources: Everhart & Hameed, Evolution: Education and Outreach, 6(1), 1-8; Prokopy, Morton et al., Climatic Change, 117, 943-50 (2014); Cultural cognition blog passim. Date added: Jan. 4 2018].

* * *

The distentaglement principle.  Label for a normative practice, derived from empirical findings, that supports the self-conscious presentation of scientific information in a manner that effectively severs positions on contested science issues from message recipients’ cutlural identities.  The effective use of the disentanglement principle has been credited with the successful teaching of evolutionary theory to secondary school students who "disbeliever" evolution. It also is the basis for science communication in Southeast Florida, where community engagement with climate change science draws together groups and communities that hold opposing beliefs in human-caused climate change. [Sources: Lawson & Worsnop, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 29, 143-66 (1992). Kahan, Advances in Pol. Psych., 36, 1-43. Added on Jan. 4, 2018.]

 

PrintView Printer Friendly Version

EmailEmail Article to Friend

Reader Comments (1)

Gallup pole - trust in professions (but not scientists):
http://news.gallup.com/poll/224639/nurses-keep-healthy-lead-honest-ethical-profession.aspx

January 5, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterJonathan
Member Account Required
You must have a member account on this website in order to post comments. Log in to your account to enable posting.