Journal
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 213-224Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.01.004
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- National Science Foundation [1349089]
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship [703401]
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1349089] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [703401] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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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 alter memory, implicit evaluation, and even perceptual judgments. We propose an identity-based model of belief for understanding the influence of partisanship on these cognitive processes. This framework helps to explain why people place party loyalty over policy, and even over truth. Finally, we discuss strategies for debiasing information processing to help to create a shared reality across partisan divides.
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