Ideology" or "Situation sense"? an experimental investigation of motivated reasoning and professional judgment

University of Pennsylvania Law Review

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 349-439

  Kahan, Dan M ^a   Hoffman, David ^b   Evans, Danieli ^c   Devins, Neal ^d   Lucci, Eugene ^e   Cheng, Katherine ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Cultural Cognition Lab   (United States)

^d Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^e Ohio Court of Common Pleas ^*  (United States)

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EID: 84962560208     PISSN: 00419907     EISSN: 19428537     Source Type: Journal    
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