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Motivated reasoning and democratic accountability

open access: yesAmerican Political Science Review, 2020
Does motivated reasoning harm democratic accountability? Substantial evidence from political behavior research indicates that voters have ``directional motives" beyond accuracy, which is often taken as evidence that they are ill-equipped to hold politicians accountable.
ANDREW T. LITTLE   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Is Personality Key? Persuasive Effects of Prior Attitudes and Personality in Political Microtargeting

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2023
Messages that are designed to match a recipient’s personality, as enabled by microtargeting, have been found to influence political reasoning and even voting intentions.
Hannah Decker, Nicole Krämer
doaj   +1 more source

Biased, not lazy: assessing the effect of COVID-19 misinformation tactics on perceptions of inaccuracy and fakeness

open access: yesOnline Media and Global Communication, 2022
In light of the fact that people have more opportunities to encounter scientific misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, this research aimed to examine how different types of misinformation impact readers’ evaluations of messages and to ...
Tsang Stephanie Jean
doaj   +1 more source

Social Psychological Predictors of Belief in Fake News in the Run-Up to the 2019 Hungarian Elections: The Importance of Conspiracy Mentality Supports the Notion of Ideological Symmetry in Fake News Belief

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Accessing information online is now easier than ever. However, also false information is circulated in increasing quantities. We sought to identify social psychological factors that could explain why some people are more susceptible to false information.
Zea Szebeni   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home alone: autonomous extension and correction of spatial representations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In this paper we present an account of the problems faced by a mobile robot given an incomplete tour of an unknown environment, and introduce a collection of techniques which can generate successful behaviour even in the presence of such problems ...
Hanheide, Marc   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Bayesian versus politically motivated reasoning in human perception of climate anomalies

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2017
In complex systems where humans and nature interact to produce joint outcomes, mitigation, adaptation, and resilience require that humans perceive feedback—signals of health and distress—from natural systems.
Joseph T Ripberger   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Energy conservation goals: What people adopt, what they recommend, and why

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2016
Failures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by adopting policies, technologies, and lifestyle changes have led the world to the brink of crisis, or likely beyond.
Shahzeen Z. Attari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of political ideology, knowledge and participation on electoral conspiracy endorsement

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science, 2023
From voting fraud to Russian interference, electoral conspiracy theories have circulated on social media since the 2016 United States presidential election with alarming magnitude.
Yanru Jiang
doaj   +1 more source

Motivated Reasoning, Political Information, and Information Literacy Education

open access: yes, 2016
Research in psychology and political science has identified motivated reasoning as a set of biases that inhibit one’s ability to process political information objectively.
Lenker, Mark N
core   +1 more source

Combining antibody conjugates with cytotoxic and immune‐stimulating payloads maximizes anti‐cancer activity

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Methods to improve antibody–drug conjugate (ADC) treatment durability in cancer therapy are needed. We utilized ADCs and immune‐stimulating antibody conjugates (ISACs), which are made from two non‐competitive antibodies, to enhance the entry of toxic payloads into cancer cells and deliver immunostimulatory agents into immune cells.
Tiexin Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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