1. Digital Self-deception
Digital Self-deception

2. Motivated reasoning:
“They Saw a Game”

3. Motivated reasoning:
“They Saw a Protest”

4. Did protestors cross the line between “speech” and “intimidation”?

5. Experimental Conditions
Abortion Clinic Condition
Recruitment Center Condition

6. Experimental Conditions
Abortion Clinic Condition
Recruitment Center Condition

7. Experimental Conditions
Abortion Clinic Condition
Recruitment Center Condition

8. Cultural Cognition Worldviews
Hierarchy
Individualism
Communitarianism
Egalitarianism

9. Cultural Cognition Worldviews
Representative items:
Agree/disagree, 6 pt likert measure
Individualism-Communitarianism
IPROTECT. “It's not the government's business to try to protect people from themselves.”
CHARM “Sometimes government needs to make laws that keep people from hurting themselves.”
Hierarchy-Egalitarianism
EWEALTH. “Our society would be better off if the distribution of wealth was more equal.”
HFEMININ. “Society as a whole has become too soft and feminine.”

10. Cultural Cognition Worldviews
Representative items:
Agree/disagree, 6 pt likert measure
Individualism-Communitarianism
IPROTECT. “It's not the government's business to try to protect people from themselves.”
CHARM “Sometimes government needs to make laws that keep people from hurting themselves.”
Hierarchy-Egalitarianism
EWEALTH. “Our society would be better off if the distribution of wealth was more equal.”
HFEMININ. “Society as a whole has become too soft and feminine.”

11. Cultural Cognition Worldviews
Representative items:
Agree/disagree, 6 pt likert measure
Individualism-Communitarianism
IPROTECT. “It's not the government's business to try to protect people from themselves.”
CHARM “Sometimes government needs to make laws that keep people from hurting themselves.”
Hierarchy-Egalitarianism
EWEALTH. “Our society would be better off if the distribution of wealth was more equal.”
HFEMININ. “Society as a whole has become too soft and feminine.”

12. Cultural Cognition Worldviews
Representative items:
Agree/disagree, 6 pt likert measure
Individualism-Communitarianism
IPROTECT. “It's not the government's business to try to protect people from themselves.”
CHARM “Sometimes government needs to make laws that keep people from hurting themselves.”
Hierarchy-Egalitarianism
EWEALTH. “Our society would be better off if the distribution of wealth was more equal.”
HFEMININ. “Society as a whole has become too soft and feminine.”

13. Cultural Cognition Worldviews
Representative items:
Agree/disagree, 6 pt likert measure
Individualism-Communitarianism
IPROTECT. “It's not the government's business to try to protect people from themselves.”
CHARM “Sometimes government needs to make laws that keep people from hurting themselves.”
Hierarchy-Egalitarianism
EWEALTH. “Our society would be better off if the distribution of wealth was more equal.”
HFEMININ. “Society as a whole has become too soft and feminine.”

14. Cultural Cognition Worldviews
Hierarchy
hierarchical individualists
hierarchical communitarians
Individualism
Communitarianism
egalitarian individualists
egalitarian communitarians
Egalitarianism

15. “They Saw a Protest”: Who decided what & when?
Pct. Agree
abortion clinic
recruitment center
abortion clinic
recruitment center
Police Liable
Police Enjoined

16. “They Saw a Protest”: Who decided what & when?
Pct. Agree
Egal individ
Egal individ
abortion clinic
recruitment center
abortion clinic
recruitment center
Police Liable
Police Enjoined

17. “They Saw a Protest”: Who decided what & when?
Hierarch commun
Hierarch commun
Pct. Agree
Egal individ
Egal individ
abortion clinic
recruitment center
abortion clinic
recruitment center
Police Liable
Police Enjoined

18. “They Saw a Protest”: Who decided what & when?
Hierarch commun
Hierarch commun
Pct. Agree
Egal individ
Egal individ
abortion clinic
recruitment center
abortion clinic
recruitment center
Police Liable
Police Enjoined

19. “They Saw a Protest”: Who decided what & when?
Hierarch commun
Hierarch commun
Egal commun
Pct. Agree
Egal commun
Egal individ
Hierarch individ
Hierarch individ
Egal individ
abortion clinic
recruitment center
abortion clinic
recruitment center
Police Liable
Police Enjoined

20. Pedestrians just not want to listen
“They Saw a Protest”: Who saw what & when?
Hierarch individ
Egal individ
Hierarch commun
Hierarch individ
Pct. Agree
Hierarch commun
Egal commun
Egal individ
Egal commun
abortion clinic
recruitment center
abortion clinic
recruitment center
abortion clinic
recruitment center
abortion clinic
recruitment center
Protestors blocked
Screamed in face
Egal individ
Egal commun
Egal commun
Egal individ
Pct. Agree
Hierarch individ
Hierarch commun
Hierarch individ
Hierarch commun
abortion clinic
recruitment center
abortion clinic
recruitment center
abortion clinic
recruitment center
abortion clinic
recruitment center
Pedestrians just not want to listen
Police just annoyed

21. So what about judges?

22. They saw a statutory ambiguity . . . .

23. Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?

24. Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?
“Our conclusion ... is confirmed by a film [I]t reveals that the students, though they undoubtedly cheered and clapped, were well behaved throughout.”
—Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536, 547 (1965)
“. . . effort to influence and intimidate the courts and legal officials ... a mob of over 2,000 students in the staging of a modern Donnybrook Fair across from the courthouse and jail
—Cox, 379 U.S. at (1965) (Clark, J., dissenting in part).
Anyone seriously interested in what this case was about must view that tape run-of-the-mine labor picketing, not to mention some other social protests
—Justice Scalia, Madsen v. Women’s Health Center, Inc., U.S. 753, 786 (1994) (Scalia, J., dissenting in part).
“We are happy to allow the videotape to speak for itself ”
—Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372, 378 n.5 (2007) (Scalia, J.)
Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?

25. Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?
“Our conclusion ... is confirmed by a film [I]t reveals that the students, though they undoubtedly cheered and clapped, were well behaved throughout.”
—Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536, 547 (1965)
“. . . effort to influence and intimidate the courts and legal officials ... a mob of over 2,000 students in the staging of a modern Donnybrook Fair across from the courthouse and jail
—Cox, 379 U.S. at (1965) (Clark, J., dissenting in part).
Anyone seriously interested in what this case was about must view that tape run-of-the-mine labor picketing, not to mention some other social protests
—Justice Scalia, Madsen v. Women’s Health Center, Inc., U.S. 753, 786 (1994) (Scalia, J., dissenting in part).
“We are happy to allow the videotape to speak for itself ”
—Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372, 378 n.5 (2007) (Scalia, J.)
Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?

26. Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?
“Our conclusion ... is confirmed by a film [I]t reveals that the students, though they undoubtedly cheered and clapped, were well behaved throughout.”
—Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536, 547 (1965)
“. . . effort to influence and intimidate the courts and legal officials ... a mob of over 2,000 students in the staging of a modern Donnybrook Fair across from the courthouse and jail
—Cox, 379 U.S. at (1965) (Clark, J., dissenting in part).
Anyone seriously interested in what this case was about must view that tape run-of-the-mine labor picketing, not to mention some other social protests
—Justice Scalia, Madsen v. Women’s Health Center, Inc., U.S. 753, 786 (1994) (Scalia, J., dissenting in part).
“We are happy to allow the videotape to speak for itself ”
—Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372, 378 n.5 (2007) (Scalia, J.)
Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?

27. Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?
“Our conclusion ... is confirmed by a film [I]t reveals that the students, though they undoubtedly cheered and clapped, were well behaved throughout.”
—Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536, 547 (1965)
“. . . effort to influence and intimidate the courts and legal officials ... a mob of over 2,000 students in the staging of a modern Donnybrook Fair across from the courthouse and jail
—Cox, 379 U.S. at (1965) (Clark, J., dissenting in part).
Anyone seriously interested in what this case was about must view that tape run-of-the-mine labor picketing, not to mention some other social protests
—Justice Scalia, Madsen v. Women’s Health Center, Inc., U.S. 753, 786 (1994) (Scalia, J., dissenting in part).
“We are happy to allow the videotape to speak for itself ”
—Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372, 378 n.5 (2007) (Scalia, J.)
Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?

28. Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?
“Our conclusion ... is confirmed by a film [I]t reveals that the students, though they undoubtedly cheered and clapped, were well behaved throughout.”
—Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536, 547 (1965)
“. . . effort to influence and intimidate the courts and legal officials ... a mob of over 2,000 students in the staging of a modern Donnybrook Fair across from the courthouse and jail
—Cox, 379 U.S. at (1965) (Clark, J., dissenting in part).
Anyone seriously interested in what this case was about must view that tape run-of-the-mine labor picketing, not to mention some other social protests
—Justice Scalia, Madsen v. Women’s Health Center, Inc., U.S. 753, 786 (1994) (Scalia, J., dissenting in part).
“We are happy to allow the videotape to speak for itself ”
—Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372, 378 n.5 (2007) (Scalia, J.)
Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?

29. Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?
“Our conclusion ... is confirmed by a film [I]t reveals that the students, though they undoubtedly cheered and clapped, were well behaved throughout.”
—Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536, 547 (1965)
“. . . effort to influence and intimidate the courts and legal officials ... a mob of over 2,000 students in the staging of a modern Donnybrook Fair across from the courthouse and jail
—Cox, 379 U.S. at (1965) (Clark, J., dissenting in part).
Anyone seriously interested in what this case was about must view that tape run-of-the-mine labor picketing, not to mention some other social protests
—Justice Scalia, Madsen v. Women’s Health Center, Inc., U.S. 753, 786 (1994) (Scalia, J., dissenting in part).
“We are happy to allow the videotape to speak for itself ”
—Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372, 378 n.5 (2007) (Scalia, J.)
Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?

30. Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?
“Our conclusion ... is confirmed by a film [I]t reveals that the students, though they undoubtedly cheered and clapped, were well behaved throughout.”
—Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536, 547 (1965)
“. . . effort to influence and intimidate the courts and legal officials ... a mob of over 2,000 students in the staging of a modern Donnybrook Fair across from the courthouse and jail
—Cox, 379 U.S. at (1965) (Clark, J., dissenting in part).
Anyone seriously interested in what this case was about must view that tape run-of-the-mine labor picketing, not to mention some other social protests
—Justice Scalia, Madsen v. Women’s Health Center, Inc., U.S. 753, 786 (1994) (Scalia, J., dissenting in part).
“We are happy to allow the videotape to speak for itself ”
—Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372, 378 n.5 (2007) (Scalia, J.)
Who sees what & why in U.S. S. Ct.?

31. They saw a high-speed car chase . . .

32. “ only a fool . . .”

33. So what does all this amount to? . . .
You tell me!