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A Preregistered Replication of Motivated Numeracy by Emil Persson; David Andersson; Lina Koppel; Daniel Västfjäll; Gustav Tinghög is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.

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Motivated numeracy refers to the idea that people with high reasoning capacity will use that capacity selectively to process information in a manner that protects their own valued beliefs. This concept was introduced in a now classic article by Kahan, Peters, Dawson, & Slovic [2017, Behavioral Public Policy 1, 54-86], who used numeracy to index reasoning capacity, and demonstrated that the tendency to engage in ideologically congruent interpretation of facts increased substantially with people's numeracy. Despite the importance of this finding, both from a theoretical and practical point of view, there is yet no consensus in the literature about the factual strength of motivated numeracy. We therefore conducted a large-scale replication of Kahan, Peters, Dawson, and Slovic (2017), using a pre-specified analysis plan with strict evaluation criteria. We did not find good evidence for motivated numeracy; there are distinct patterns in our data at odds with the core predictions of the theory, most notably (i) there is ideologically congruent responding that is not moderated by numeracy, and (ii) when there is moderation, ideologically congruent responding occurs only at the highest lev

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Author

Emil Persson; David Andersson; Lina Koppel; Daniel Västfjäll; Gustav Tinghög

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)