COVID-19 and Politically Motivated Reasoning.
Allegra MaguireEmil PerssonDaniel VästfjällGustav TinghögPublished in: Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making (2022)
Participants assessed numerical information regarding the effect of different COVID-19 policies.We found no evidence in line with politically motivated reasoning when interpreting numerical information about COVID-19.Participants tend to base their assessment of COVID-19-related facts on prior beliefs of the matter.Politically polarized attitudes toward COVID-19 are more a result of lack of thinking than partisanship.