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  1. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3046603

     

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    This paper synthesizes existing work on misinformation relating to policy-relevant facts. It argues that misinformation has the greatest power to mislead when it interacts with identity-protective cognition....

     

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    ....Identity-protective cognition (IPC) is a species of motivated reasoning. Motivated reasoning refers to the unconscious tendency of people to selectively credit and dismiss factual information in patterns that promote some goal or interest independent of the truth of the asserted facts. When that goal or interest is the protection of one’s status within an important affinity group, the information consumer can be said to be displaying IPC (Sherman & Cohen 2006). 

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    The “motivated public” account also highlights the most important missing piece of existing research: how and why particular positions on disputed facts acquire the antagonistic social meanings that turn them into badges of group identity (Lessig 1995; Kahan, Jamieson et al. 2017).  Along with accident and misadventure, misinformation no doubt plays a role. But for this purpose, misinformation that takes aim only at the facts that underlie a disputed political issue will not be particularly effective; what will be is misinformation that implies the issue is one that already starkly divides members of opposing identity-defining groups; that’s the message that has the greatest potential to spark the sort of group-status conflict that disables the capacity of diverse citizens to recognize what science knows. Not until that sort of information is brought under control will it be possible to protect the science communication environment from the particular toxin of IPC. 

     

  2. 1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    Trump showing more cracks in Georgia in the suburbs - Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Forsyth. Losing 25-50% of the vote there. 

    Who ever, in their wildest dreams, would've expected GA governor Brian Kemp would stand up to Trump in 2020?

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  3. 6 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    Pope’s didn’t give dictators a pass. Righteous coronations were sold to murdering pieces of shit so the cult could maintain power. 

    This.  Buying indulgences.  Power=Money>>>>>>Salvation.

  4. 1 minute ago, Rimbo said:

    And they're tapped out financially as well. You can't just keep going back to the same well over and over again, especially when it was shallow to begin with.

    Memaw can only miss so many weeks of her meds.

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