Beyond Directional Motivated Reasoning: Social Identity and Partisan Truth

这个项目旨在开发和测试一种新的心理过程模型，人们通过它来理解信息是真是假。这个项目期望在关于不同群体如何产生对世界的相反理解(“党派真理”)的知识方面取得进展，尽管心理过程是同样理性和公正的。预期的结果包括开发一个单一的框架来解释当前零碎的发现，将分析扩展到当前和社会紧迫的关于真相的党派辩论(例如，疫苗迟疑)。重大好处包括增进知识和制定指导方针，以帮助政策制定者和教育工作者最终减少党派真理造成的社会不和谐。

This project aims to develop and test a new model of psychological processes by which people come to understand information as true or not. This project expects to generate advances in knowledge about how different groups produce opposing understandings of the world ("partisan truth"), despite equally rational and unbiased psychological processes. Expected outcomes include the development of a single framework to explain current piecemeal findings, expanding the analysis to current and socially-urgent partisan debates over truth (eg, vaccine hesitancy). Significant benefits include advancing knowledge and the development of guidelines to aid policy-makers and educators in the ultimate reduction of social discord caused by partisan truth.