The Partisan Brain: An Identity-Based Model of Political Belief.

Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 213 - 224
Published: Mar 1, 2018
Abstract
Democracies assume accurate knowledge by the populace, but the human attraction to fake and untrustworthy news poses a serious problem for healthy democratic functioning. We articulate why and how identification with political parties – known as partisanship – can bias information processing in the human brain. There is extensive evidence that people engage in motivated political reasoning, but recent research suggests that partisanship can...
Paper Details
Title
The Partisan Brain: An Identity-Based Model of Political Belief.
Published Date
Mar 1, 2018
Volume
22
Issue
3
Pages
213 - 224
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