Cultural cognition
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Cultural cognition refers to the tendency of individuals to conform their beliefs about disputed matters of fact to values that define their cultural identities. Growing out of work done by Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky into culture and risk perception, research into cultural cognition integrates empirical findings in anthropology, social psychology, and political science.
Perhaps the foremost theorist at the moment is Dan M. Kahan, of the Yale Law School.
