Dan Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law & Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School. His primary research interests are risk perception, science communication, and the application of decision science to law and policymaking.
Are Smart People Ruining Democracy? | Dan Kahan (source)
It has been assumed (very reasonably) for many years that enlightened self-government demands a science-literate citizenry.
Perversely, however, recent research has shown that all manner of reasoning proficiency - from cognitive reflection to numeracy, from actively open-minded thinking to science literacy - magnifies political polarization on policy-relevant science.
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