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Replication Data for: The effect of incentives on motivated numeracy amidst COVID-19

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Title Replication Data for: The effect of incentives on motivated numeracy amidst COVID-19
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EAL6AE
 
Creator GOVINDAN, PAVITRA
Pechenkina, Anna O.
Chung, Eunbin
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description 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 Kahan et al. (2017) 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.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Political ideology
numeracy
motivated reasoning
 
Contributor GOVINDAN, PAVITRA