The truth about denial : bias and self-deception in science, politics, and religion / Adrian Bardon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bardon, Adrian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truthfulness and falsehood.

Denialism.

Deception.

Disinformation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

This volume is a wide-ranging examination of denial and ideological denialism. It offers a readable overview of the psychology and social science of bias, self-deception, and denial, and examines the role of ideological denialism in conflicts over science and public policy, politics, and culture.

Contents:

Cover

The Truth About Denial

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Bias and Belief

1.1 What Is Denial?

1.2 "Hot Cognition"

1.3 Mechanisms of Motivated Reasoning

1.4 The Origins of Denial

1.5 Pathological Ideology, and Denialism as a Social Phenomenon

2. Science Denial

2.1 Climate Science Denial

2.2 Personality, System, and Status Quo

2.3 The Asymmetry Thesis

2.4 Science and Societal Change

3. Pride, Prejudice, and Political Economy

3.1 Political Economics

3.2 Poverty and the Fundamental Attribution Error

3.3 Classism and Racial Stereotyping

3.4 The Liberty Argument

3.5 Asymmetry Again

4. Religion

4.1 Reasons to Believe

4.2 Is It Even a Belief?

4.3 The Origins of Religiosity

4.4 Tenacity

4.5 The Problem(s) with Religion

4.6 The Retreat into Abstraction

Afterword: Directions for Science Communication

A.1 More Information?

A.2 Message Framing and Delivery

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-006229-0

OCLC:

1114507566