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  • Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government 
    Kahan, Dan; Peters, Ellen; Dawson, Erica Cantrell; Slovic, Paul (The Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, 2013)
    Why does public conflict over societal risks persist in the face of compelling and widely accessible scientific evidence? We conducted an experiment to probe two alternative answers: the “Science Comprehension Thesis” ...
  • What’s bad is easy: Taboo values, affect, and cognition 
    Lichtenstein, Sarah; Gregory, Robin; Irwin, Julie (Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2007-06)
    Some decision situations are so objectionable or repugnant that people refuse to make a choice. This paper seeks to better understand taboo responses, and to distinguish choices that are truly taboo from those that are ...

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