The effect of incentives on motivated numeracy amidst COVID-19

IF 3.2 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Journal of Experimental Political Science Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI:10.1017/XPS.2022.32

E. Chung, P. Govindan, Anna O. Pechenkina

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Abstract How does political ideology affect the processing of information incongruent with one’s worldview? The disagreement in prior research about this question lies in how one’s ideology interacts with cognitive ability to shape motivated numeracy or the tendency to misinterpret data to confirm one’s prior beliefs. Our study conceptually replicates and extends previous research on motivated numeracy by testing whether monetary incentives for accuracy lessen motivated reasoning when high- and low-numeracy partisans interpret data about mask mandates and COVID-19 cases. This research leverages the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, as Americans are polarized along party lines regarding an appropriate government response to the pandemic.

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COVID-19期间激励措施对动机性计算能力的影响

政治意识形态如何影响与世界观不一致的信息加工?关于这个问题的先前研究的分歧在于，一个人的意识形态如何与认知能力相互作用，从而形成动机性的计算能力，或者是误解数据以确认自己先前的信念的倾向。我们的研究在概念上复制并扩展了之前关于动机性计算的研究，通过测试当高和低计算能力的党派解释有关口罩要求和COVID-19病例的数据时，准确性的金钱激励是否会减少动机性推理。这项研究利用了正在进行的COVID-19危机，因为美国人在政府应对大流行的适当措施方面存在党派分歧。

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Journal of Experimental Political Science Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

CiteScore

5.10

自引率

8.30%

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