Index

ABC

abortion

falsehoods about

integrative complexity and

reality gap and

Roe v. Wade

selective exposure and

academia

expertise gap and

Openness to Experience and

rise of “New Right” and

See also individual names of academic institutions

accuracy motivations

Adams, John Quincy

adaptation

adolescence, pseudo-evidence and

Advanced Pain Centers

affect

Agnew, Spiro

Agreeableness, OCEAN and

AIDS, political conversion and

Ailes, Roger

alcohol, political conversion and

Altemeyer, Robert

ambiguity tolerance

America: To Pray? or Not to Pray? (Barton)

American Association for the Advancement of Science

“American culture war of fact”

American Enterprise Association

American Enterprise Institute

American history. See U.S. history

American Prospect, The

American Psychological Association

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

American Revolution

Americans for Prosperity

Americans for Tax Reform

American University

Amodio, David

“amydala theory” of conservatism. See also neuropolitics

anterior cingulated cortex (ACC)

anti-Federalists

argumentative theory of reason

asymmetry thesis

authoritarianism

authoritarian conservatism, defined

authoritarian personality

heuristic reasoning and

rise of “New Right” and

selective exposure and

Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics (Hetherington, Weiler)

Bachmann, Michele

backfire effect

economics and

measuring ideology and (See also Louisiana State University study)

personality and

Bacon, Francis

Barker, David

Barnett Shale

Bartlett, Bruce

on economic conservatism

political conversion of

Barton, David

BBC

belief systems

cognitive dissonance and

media and rise of “New Right”

motivated reasoning and

rise of “New Right” and

See also conservatism; liberalism

Believing Brain, The (Shermer)

Bernanke, Ben

bias

of Fox News reporting (See also selective exposure)

morality and in-group bias

motivated reasoning and

“smart idiots” effect and

See also motivated reasoning

“Big Five” personality traits

Bipartisan Policy Center

“Birthers”

Bloom, Paul

“blue” states

personality and

rise of “New Right” and

Boehner, John

brain

amygdala

evolution and

fetal pain and

neuropolitics

primacy of affect and

See also motivated reasoning; neuropolitics

Brooklyn College

Brown, Lewis H.

Buckley, William F., Jr.

God and Man at Yale

National Review and

political conversion and

rise of “New Right” and

Burke, Edmund

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

change and

economic conservatism and

economic falsehoods and

“environmental explanation” and

Frum and

motivated reasoning and

political conversion and

rise of “New Right” and

U.S. history and

by-product

bystanders

Caldicott, Helen

carbon dioxide. See global warming

career choice, expertise gap and

Carney, Dana

Cato Institute

CBS

cementing, fracking and

Center for American Progress

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

centrists. See also independents

Chait, Jonathan

Chamberlain, Neville

change

“change brains”

morality and expertise gap

resistance to

character traits, of conservatism. See also personality

Cheney, Dick

Cheney, Lynne

Chernobyl (Soviet Union)

children

adolescence and pseudo-evidence

politics of

same-sex marriage and

vaccines and autism

chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

Christianity

Condorcet on

separation of church and state

U.S. history and misinformation (See also U.S. history)

See also religion

Christian Right

Conservapedia and Andrew Schlafly

Frum on

fundamentalism and personality

“New Right” and Phyllis Schlafly

reality gap and

rise of

U.S. history and misinformation

WallBuilders

See also religion; U.S. history; individual issues

Churchill, Winston

Citizens for Tax Justice

civil liberties

climate change. See global warming

“ClimateGate”

Clinton, Bill

closed mindedness. See cognitive closure

closure. See cognitive closure

CNN

cognition

cognitive dissonance theory

cognitive load

cultural cognition model

See also brain

cognitive closure

Columbia University

Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives

communism

leftist regimes of

personality and politics

rise of “New Right” and

communitarians

Condorcet, Marquis de (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Cariat)

confirmation bias

conflict monitoring

Congressional Budget Office

Conscientiousness, OCEAN and

consequentialism

Conservapedia

conservatism

authoritarian

Bartlett on “conserving”

centrists, independents, and

change and

compromise and reality

Condorcet and

as core political ideology

cultural cognition model and

defined

economic vs. social (See also economic conservatism)

ideology of

leftist regimes and

liberal ideology and

motivated reasoning and

political conversion and

reading time and (See also Louisiana State University study)

self-reported

“team” affiliation and

See also morality; motivated reasoning; “New Right”; personality; selective exposure

consilience of evidence

contraception, reality gap and

conversion, political

Cornell University

cortex

Cosmides, Leda

Coulter, Ann

Council of Economic Advisors

“creation science”

Critchlow, Donald T.

cultural cognition model

curiosity. See Openness to Experience

Danbury Baptists

Dartmouth University

Darwin, Charles

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)

“death panels”

falsehoods about

motivated reasoning and

reality gap and

selective exposure and

death penalty

debt ceiling crisis (2011)

decisiveness, motivated reasoning and

defensive goals, selective exposure and

Democratic Party

backfire effect and

expertise gap and

selective exposure and global warming (See also selective exposure)

selective exposure and motivated reasoning

“smart idiots” effect and

“Southern Democrats”

two-party system and

See also liberalism; motivated reasoning; reality gap

DeSmogBlog.com

determinism

DeWitt, John L.

Dickens, Charles

disaffecteds

disconfirmation bias

Discovery Institute

Dissent

Ditto, Peter

Dobbs, Michael

DRD4 (gene)

Drudge Report

Duke University

Eagle Forum

economic conservatism

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and

backfire effect and

debt ceiling crisis (2011) and

falsehoods about economics

Federal Reserve and

ideology and

individualists and

Medicare Part D and

quantitative easing (QE2) and

social conservatism vs.

supply side economics and

education level, motivated reasoning and. See also academia; schools

egalitarian-communitarians

Eidelman, Scott

Einstein, Albert

Eisenhower, Dwight

Ellison, Harlan

Emanuel, Kerry

Emory University

empathy

Engelder, Terry

Enlightenment

Condorcet and

values

Enron

“environmental explanation”

ideology and

“nature vs. nurture”

political psychology and

reality and

rise of “New Right” (See also Republican Party)

selective exposure and media proliferation

Environmental Protection Agency

epigenetics

epistemic closure

equality, resistance to

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Ethics and Public Policy Center

Europe, debt problems of (2011-2012)

evolution

of brain

“creation science”

falsehoods about science

neuropolitics and

“Project Steve”

evolutionary psychology

expertise

expertise gap

motivated reasoning and

rise of “New Right” and

extremism. See also Christian Right; ideology; “New Right”

“Fact-Checker” (Washington Post)

fact checking. See also reality gap; selective exposure

Fairness Doctrine

family, as metaphor

fear

neuropolitics and

political conversion and

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Federal Reserve

Feeney, Tom

Feldman, Lauren

Festinger, Leon

“fetal pain” bills

First Amendment

Firth, Colin

Fisher, Kevin

Flanders, conservatism and

flowback water, fracking and

“Founding Fathers.” See U.S. history

Fowler, James

Fox, Josh

Fox, Timothy Davies

Fox News

fact checking and

on global warming

motivated reasoning and

selective exposure and

fracking

claims about

consilience of evidence and

defined

research on

France

Age of Reason

French Académie des Sciences

French Revolution

Frazer, James George

Friedan, Betty

Friedman, Milton

Frum, David

Fukushima Daiichi (Japan)

fundamental attribution error

fundamentalism, personality and. See also Christian Right

Galileo

gas drilling. See fracking

Gasland (Fox)

gay rights

motivated reasoning

reality gap and

Geithner, Timothy

genetics, neuropolitics and

George Mason University

George Washington University

Georgia State

Gerber, Alan

Gingrich, Newt

Girondists

Glaser, Jack

global warming

falsehoods about science

in Louisiana State University study

motivated reasoning and

personality and

reality gap and

rise of “New Right” and

selective exposure and

“smart idiots” effect and

goalpost shifting

God and Man at Yale (Buckley)

Goldberg, Jonah

Goldwater, Barry

“Go-No Go” task

Goodman, Amy

Google Scholar

Gore, Al

Gorody, Anthony

Great Expectations (Dickens)

Green, Kenneth

Griffith University (Australia)

Grissom, Thomas

Gross, Neil

“Ground Zero Mosque,” selective exposure and

groups

argumentative theory of reason

morality and in-group bias

motivated reasoning and

Haidt, Jonathan

Halliburton

Hannity, Sean

Hart, William

Harvard University

Hatch, Orrin

Hatemi, Peter

health care

economic conservatism and

falsehoods about

motivated reasoning and

reality gap and

selective exposure and

Henry, Patrick

“herd immunity”

Heritage Foundation

Hetherington, Marc

heuristic reasoning, authoritarianism and

Hibbing, John

Hicks, Josh

hierarchical-individuals

historical method

history, U.S. See U.S. history

Hitchens, Christopher

Hofstetter, C. Richard

Holdren, John

Holocaust denial

House of Commons (Britain)

Huckabee, Mike

Huntsman, Jon

Hussein, Saddam

hydraulic fracturing. See fracking

Iacoboni, Marco

Idaho, abortion and

identity-protective cognition

ideology

of conservatism

“environmental explanation” and

extremist

ideological constraint

liberal

measuring (See Louisiana State University study)

personality and

rise of “New Right” and (See also “New Right”)

selective exposure and

“idols of the mind”

Illinois, backfire effect and

Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy (Levin)

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy (Bartlett)

In Defense of Internment: The Case for “Racial Profiling” in World War II and the War on Terror (Malkin)

independents

centrists, independents, and

expertise gap and

“smart idiots” effect and

individualists

economic conservatives as

morality and

personality and

Ingraffea, Anthony

Institute of Medicine (U.S. National Academy of Sciences)

insula

integrative complexity (IC)

intelligence, Openness vs.

International Atomic Energy Agency

internment camps

Iraq War

falsehoods about

morality and

motivated reasoning and

selective exposure and

Iyengar, Shanto

Jackson, Lisa

Jackson, Robert B.

Jacobins (France)

Jacobson, Louis

Japanese Americans, World War II internment of

Jean Nicod Institute (France)

Jefferson, Thomas

Jenkins-Smith, Hank

John Birch Society

Jost, John

on defensiveness about psychology and politics

on ideological extremism

on ideology

neuropolitics and

on personality and politics

on resistance to equality

Kahan, Dan

Kaiser Family Foundation

Kansas, abortion and

Kazin, Michael

Keech, Marian

Kemmelmeier, Markus

Kennedy, Robert F., Jr.

Kenyon, Cecelia

Kerry, John

Kessler, Glenn

Keynesian economics

Klaczynski, Paul

Kristol, Irving

Krosnick, Jon

Kruglanski, Arie

Krugman, Paul

Kuklinski, James

Kull, Steven

laissez-faire conservatism

Lakoff, George

Lay, Ken

Lederman, Cindy

leftist regimes

left-wing ideology. See liberalism

Legislative Assembly (Revolutionary France)

Levin, Yuval

Liars for Jesus (Rodda)

“liberal establishment”

“liberal hawks”

liberalism

change and

compromise and reality

Condorcet and

as core political ideology

ideology and

misinformation and

morality and consequentialism

motivated reasoning and

need for motivating narratives of

Openness to Experience correlation (See also Louisiana State University study)

political psychology and

refuting historical revisionism and

rise of “New Right” and

See also morality; motivated reasoning; personality; selective exposure

libertarians

Lilla, Mark

Limbaugh, Rush

“Linear No-Threshold Model”

Lodge, Milton

Louisiana State University study

about

findings

on Openness to Experience

study design

Lynas, Mark

MacInnis, Bo

Madison, James

Making Work Pay tax credit

male strength, neuropolitics and

Malkin, Michelle

Mankiw, N. Gregory

Marcellus Shale

markers

Martin, Dorothy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

mathematical reasoning

McCarthy, Jenny

McConnell, Mitch

McCrae, Robert

media

“conscious” choices about

“liberal”

proliferation of

reality gap and

rise of “New Right” and

selective exposure to (See selective exposure)

truth and reality

See also individual names of media outlets

MediaMatters

Medicare Part D

memory retrieval

Mercier, Hugo

meta-analysis, defined

metaphor, morality and

Meyer, Aviva

misinformation

fracking and

liberal views and

motivated reasoning and

nuclear power and

selective exposure and

trustworthiness of information sources

U.S. history and

vaccines and autism

See also truth

Monbiot, George

Montreal Protocol

Mooney, Chris

The Republican Brain

The Republican War on Science

morality

consequentialism and

expertise gap and

family metaphor and

in-group bias and

moral intuition and

Moral Politics (Lakoff)

motivated reasoning

argumentative theory of reason and

backfire effect and

beliefs and

cognitive dissonance theory and

Condorcet and

education level and

expertise and

extent of research in

goalpost shifting and

Italian study on

misinformation and left

morality and

Openness to Experience and (See also Louisiana State University study)

primacy of affect and

pseudo-evidence and

reality and

reason and

rise of “New Right” and

selective exposure and

“smart idiots” effect and

MoveOn.org

MSNBC

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

National Center for Policy Analysis

National Center for Science Education (NCSE)

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Institute of Aging

National Institute of Mental Health

National Institutes of Health

nationalism, rise of “New Right” and. See also “New Right”

National Organization for Women

National Review

National Rifle Association

National Science Foundation

“nature hypothesis”. See also “environmental explanation”; morality; personality

Nature Neuroscience

NBC

Nebraska, abortion and

neuropolitics

brain anatomy and (See also brain)

conflict monitoring

fear and

genetics and

longitudinal study of children’s politics and

nature vs. nurture

political conversion and

study of

Neuroticism, OCEAN and

“new class”

New Republic

“New Right”

authoritarianism and

Phyllis Schlafly and

right-to-left political conversion and

See also Christian Right

New York State, fracking and

New York Times

New York Times Book Review

New York Times/CBS poll

New York Times Magazine

New York University. See also Jost, John

9/11 Commission

Nixon, Richard

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Perlstein)

Norquist, Grover

North Carolina, backfire effect and

Northwestern University

NPR

nuclear power

consilience of evidence and

in Louisiana State University study

misinformation and

Nyhan, Brendan

Obama, Barack

approval ratings

“Birthers” and

economic conservatism and

falsehoods about

on fracking

loyalty of liberals and

motivated reasoning and

on nuclear power

2008 election of

2010 election and (See also selective exposure)

“Obamacare.” See health care; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2009)

Occupy Wall Street

OCEAN (Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism)

Ohio State University

“Old Enlightenment reason”

Openness to Experience

conservatism and ideology

defined

measurement of (See also Louisiana State University study)

morality and expertise gap

O’Reilly, Bill

“Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act”

Paine, Tom

Paisley, Brad

Palin, Sarah

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2009)

falsehoods about

selective exposure and

See also health care

Patterson, Charlotte

Paul, Ron

PBS

Pennsylvania

fracking and

Three Mile Island

Pennsylvania State University

People’s History of the United States, A (Zinn)

Perlstein, Rick

Perry, Rick

personality

asymmetry and symmetry theses

authoritarian

“Big Five” traits and Openness to Experience (See also Openness to Experience)

character traits of conservatism

conservatism and ideology

ideology and

integrative complexity and

Openness to Experience

persuasion, friendly vs. unfriendly

Pew Center

Pew Charitable Trusts

Phyllis Schlafly Report

Pinker, Steven

“Pinocchios”

Poland, conservatism and

politeness, personality and

Political Brain, The (Westen)

political conversion

neuropolitics and

rise of “New Right” and

political correctness

Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, The (Woods)

political neuroscience. See neuropolitics

political psychology

PolitiFact

polymorphisms

post-moderns

Powell, Lewis

Prasad, Monica

President’s Science Advisory Committee (PSAC)

primacy of affect

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA

Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA)

fact checking and

on Iraq War

on 2010 election

“Project Steve”

pseudo-evidence

Psychological Bulletin (American Psychological Association)

psychology

American Psychological Association

evolutionary psychology

Jost on defensiveness about psychology

“nature vs. nurture”

political psychology

See also brain; cognition; groups; motivated reasoning; neuropolitics; personality

Public Policy Polling

Qaeda, Al

quantitative easing (QE2)

race

Japanese internment camps

morality and consequentialism

selective exposure and

Ramsay, Clay

rationalism

rationalizing

reading time, conservatism and

Reagan, Ronald

change and

economic conservatism and

“environmental explanation” and

Fairness Doctrine and

rise of “New Right” and

U.S. history and

Reagonomics (Bartlett)

reality gap

abortion and

conservativism/liberalism compromise and

consilience of evidence and

fact checking and

global warming and

importance of understanding

“nature hypothesis” and “environmental explanation”

same-sex marriage and

selective exposure and

See also truth

reason

Age of Reason

argumentative theory of reason

Condorcet on

heuristic reasoning

mathematical reasoning

“Old Enlightenment reason”

U.S. history and

See also motivated reasoning

“red” states

personality and

rise of “New Right” and

selective exposure and

reductionism

Reifler, Jason

Rekers, George

relativity, theory of

religion

faith-based economics and backfire effect (See also economic conservatism)

neuropolitics and

“New Right” and

selective exposure and

separation of church and state

U.S. Constitution on

See also Christian Right

Republican Brain, The (Mooney)

Republican Party

authoritarianism and

backfire effect and

child-rearing style of

expertise gap and

ideology of

political conversion and

RINOs (Republicans-in-name-only)

rise of “New Right” in

selective exposure and global warming

selective exposure and motivated reasoning

“smart idiots” effect and

two-party system and

See also conservatism; motivated reasoning; “New Right”; reality gap; selective exposure

Republican War on Science, The (Mooney)

Revere, Paul

revisionism, historical. See also U.S. history

Revolution: Tomorrow Is NOW (Schlafly)

right-wing ideology. See conservatism

RINOs (Republicans-in-name-only)

Rodda, Chris

Roe v. Wade

Romney, Mitt

Salon.com

Salvacion, Ferdinand

same-sex marriage

Sammon, Bill

“Sananda”

San Diego State University

Schlafly, Andrew

Schlafly, Phyllis

schools

prayer in

selective exposure and

sex education and reality gap

Schreiber, Darren

science

Condorcet on

denial

Eisenhower on

expertise gap and

need for motivating narratives of

nuclear power and

scientific literacy

Scientific Revolution

See also misinformation; motivated reasoning; selective exposure; truth

Scripps Howard

Seekers

selective exposure

cognitive dissonance and

early research of

global warming and

“Ground Zero Mosque” and

health care and

ideology and

Iraq War and

media proliferation and

misinformation and

motivated reasoning and

reality gap and

2010 election and

self affirmation

self-esteem, selective exposure and

self-reporting, by conservatives

Sell, Aaron

separation of church and state

September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

political conversion and

reality gap and

selective exposure and

1792 Convention (France)

sex education, reality gap and

Shermer, Michael

Sides, John

Simmons, Solon

Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (Condorcet)

skin conductance

slavery, Bachmann on

“smart idiots” effect

motivated reasoning and

selective exposure and

See also motivated reasoning

smart meters

Smart Politics (University of Minnesota)

social conservatism

social mathematics

Social Security

social studies curriculum (Texas)

sociobiology

“sophisticates,” selective exposure and

“Southern Democrats”

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

“Southern Strategy”

Soviet Union. See also communism

Sperber, Dan

spreading activation

Stanford University

State University of New York at Stony Brook. See Stony Brook University

status quo conservatism

stem cell research

motivated reasoning and

reality gap and

Stephanopoulos, George

Stewart, Jon

“stimulus bill.” See American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Stitka, Linda

Stony Brook University. See also Lodge, Milton; Taber, Charles

STOP ERA rallies

Sulloway, Frank

supply side economics. See also economic conservatism

symmetry thesis

System 1/System

Taber, Charles

talk radio

Tanenhaus, Sam

“tariff walls”

taxes

economic conservatism and

falsehoods about

motivated reasoning and

Tea Party

economic conservatism and

economic vs. social conservatism and

on global warming

Occupy Wall Street tactics and

personality and

U.S. history and misinformation

Teixeira, Ruy

Tetlock, Philip

Texas Board of Education

Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, A (Festinger)

think tanks

Thomas, Cal

Three Mile Island

“Threshold Model”

“TimeCycle Academy” (Huckabee)

Tooby, John

Toomey, Pat

Tosh, John

Trilling, Lionel

truth

conservativism/liberalism compromise and reality

denial

economic conservatism and

liberalism and misinformation

personality and

reality gap and

trustworthiness of information sources

U.S. history and

See also misinformation; reality gap

“Truther” conspiracy theory

TV News Trust Poll (Public Policy Polling)

twin studies, neuropolitics and

two-party system, ideology and

Type 1/Type 2 errors

University College of London

University of Alabama

University of Arkansas

University of British Columbia

University of California - Berkeley

University of California - Irvine

University of California - Los Angeles

University of California - San Diego

University of California - San Francisco

University of California - Santa Barbara

University of Cambridge

University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

University of Manitoba

University of Maryland. See also Kruglanski, Arie

University of Minnesota

University of Nebraska at Lincoln

University of Nevada - Reno

University of North Carolina

University of Northern Colorado

University of Oklahoma

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh

University of Virginia

U.S. budget deficit, taxes and. See also economic conservatism

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

U.S. Constitution

U.S. Declaration of Independence

U.S. history

American Revolution

Bachmann on slavery

Declaration of Independence

falsehoods about

historical method and

historical revisionism and

Japanese internment camps

misinformation about

Palin’s views on Revere

refuting historical revisionism

Texas Board of Education on social studies curriculum

“TimeCycle Academy” (Huckabee) and

See also individual names of U.S. presidents

U.S. House of Representatives. See also individual names of representatives

U.S. National Academy of Sciences

U.S. News and World Report

U.S. Treasury

vaccines and autism

Valla, Lorenzo

Vanderbilt University

Vernet, Madame

von Hayek, Friedrich

von Ranke, Leopold

Wallace, Chris

WallBuilders

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

Watts, Fraser

weapons of mass destruction (WMD)

Weiler, Jonathan

Weisberg, Deena Skolnick

Welch, Robert

“Welcome to the Future” (Paisley)

welfare reform

Westen, Drew

West Virginia, fracking and

Whewell, William

“Why We’re Liberal, Why We’re Conservative: A Cognitive Theory on the Origins of Ideological Thinking” (Taber, Lodge)

Wikipedia

Wilson, E. O.

Woods, Thomas E., Jr.

World Health Organization

World War II. See U.S. history

Yale Project on Climate Change Communication

Yale University. See also Gerber, Alan; Kahan, Dan

Yale University Law School

Yonsei University (South Korea)

Young, Everett

Young Americans for Freedom

Zinn, Howard