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    "pk": 27080,
    "title": "Reasons and the “Motivated Numeracy Effect”",
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    "abstract": "Does the ability to reason well make one less likely to engage\nin motivated reasoning? Following a paradigm used by Kahan,\nPeters, Dawson, and Slovic (2013), this study aims to replicate,\nextend, and explain the surprising finding that those most likely\nto process politicized data in a biased manner are those who\nscore highest on a measure of numerical proficiency. Although\nour study found general effects of motivated reasoning, we\nfailed to replicate Kahan et al.’s “motivated numeracy effect”.\nHowever, our study did find that, when forced to consider\ncompeting statistical interpretations of the data before\nresponding, highly numerate participants were more likely than\nless numerate ones to choose a correct but belief-contradicting\ninterpretation of data. These results suggest that while\nnumerate participants were biased when generating responses,\nthey were not when evaluating reasons to justify their\nresponses",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "reasoning; motivated reasoning; decision making"
        },
        {
            "word": "science communication; inference; intelligence; rationality"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1p554756",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Cristina",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ballarini",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Brown University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Steven",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Sloman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Brown University",
            "department": ""
        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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