1. Watch in slide show mode to observe (modest) animation.
comments questions:
papers, etc:

2. How Much Progress with “Progress”? A Dialectical Monologue
How Much Progress with “Progress”?
A Dialectical Monologue
Dan M. Kahan
Yale University
& many x 103 others

3. How Much Progress with “Progress”? A Dialectical Monologue
How Much Progress with “Progress”?
A Dialectical Monologue
or Something
Dan M. Kahan
Yale University
& many x 103 others

4. What am I talking about? Thesis: Sure, I’ll show you
Antithesis: No, take a closer look
Synthesis: Sure, if you just stop talking about it

5. What am I talking about? Are people motivated by “progress”?
Thesis: Sure, I’ll show you
Antithesis: No, take a closer look
Synthesis: Sure, if you just stop talking about it

6. What am I talking about? Are people motivated by “progress”?
Thesis: Sure, I’ll show you
Antithesis: No, take a closer look
Synthesis: Sure, if you just stop talking about it

7. What am I talking about? Are people motivated by “progress”?
Thesis: Sure, I’ll show you
Antithesis: No, take a closer look
Synthesis: Sure, if you just stop talking about it

8. What am I talking about? Are people motivated by “progress”?
Thesis: Sure, I’ll show you
Antithesis: No, take a closer look
Synthesis: Sure, if you just stop talking about it

11. study_dismiss scale (α = 0.85)

12. Cultural Cognition Worldviews
Risk Perception Key
Low Risk
High Risk
Hierarchy
climate change
nuclear power
air & water pollution
guns/gun control
Marijuana legalization
Abortion procedure
Anti-terrorism
cats/ridiculous birds
Hierarchy-individualism
Hierarchy-communitarianism
Individualism
Communitarianism
Marijuana legalization
Abortion procedure
Anti-terrorism
cats/ridiculous birds
climate change
nuclear power
air & water pollution
guns/gun control
Egalitarian-individualism
Egalitarian-individualism
Egalitarianism

13. Marijuana legalization cats/ridiculous birds
Cultural Cognition Worldviews
Risk Perception Key
Low Risk
High Risk
Hierarchy
climate change
nuclear power
air & water pollution
guns/gun control
Individualism
Communitarianism
Marijuana legalization
Abortion procedure
Anti-terrorism
cats/ridiculous birds
climate change
nuclear power
air & water pollution
guns/gun control
Egalitarianism

14. Control Condition

15. Anti-pollution Condition

16. Geoengineering Condition

17. study_dismiss scale (α = 0.85)

18. Anti-pollution Condition

19. Geoengineering Condition

20. Diff. in Study dismiss (Std D’s)

21. What am I talking about? Are people motivated by “progress”?
Thesis: Sure, I’ll show you
Antithesis: No, take a closer look
Synthesis: Sure, if you just stop talking about it

22. What am I talking about? Are people motivated by “progress”?
Thesis: Sure, I’ll show you
Antithesis: No, take a closer look
Synthesis: Sure, if you just stop talking about it

23. Diff. in Study dismiss (Std D’s)

24. 1.00 0.50 0.00 -0.50 -1.00 Dismissiveness (z-srore) Hierarch. individ.
Study dismiss (z-srore)
Egal. commun.
control
antipollution
geoengineering
N = Combined English & US general population samples. Error bars denote 0.95 CIs.

26. What am I talking about? Are people motivated by “progress”?
Thesis: Sure, I’ll show you
Antithesis: No, take a closer look
Synthesis: Sure, if you just stop talking about it

27. What am I talking about? Are people motivated by “progress”?
Thesis: Sure, I’ll show you
Antithesis: No, take a closer look
Synthesis: Sure, if you just stop looking at it

28. Angst over consumerism? Where??

29. You mean this?

30. Against capitalism? Seriously?

31. This is a fashion statement, . . .

32. so is this. . .

33. so are these . . .

34. . . . this is a worldview.

35. . . . it’s real . . .

36. . . . it’s antiliberal . . .

37. . . . it’s antimarket . . .

38. . . . it’s antidemocratic . . .

39. . . . it’s anti-progress . . .

40. and it’s not even on the table here!

41. the only thing that’s on the table are the tokens of a demeaning, petty symbolic status compeition

42. the only thing that’s on the table are the tokens of a demeaning, petty symbolic status compeition driven by intellectually juvenile, self-promoting entrepreneurs
Naomi.klein.inc
Rush.Limbaugh.inc

43. So don’t play that stupid game.
Stop looking & looking & looking at it.
“Messaging” liberal democracy doesn’t motivate people.
Living it does.

44. So don’t play that stupid game.
Stop looking & looking & looking at it.
“Messaging” liberal democracy doesn’t motivate people.
Living it does.

45. So don’t play that stupid game.
Stop looking & looking & looking at it.
“Messaging”/arguing liberal democracy doesn’t motivate people.
Living it does.

46. So don’t play that stupid game.
Stop looking & looking & looking at it.
“Messaging”/arguing liberal democracy doesn’t motivate people.
Living it does.

47. www. culturalcognition.net
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