The Psychology of Closed and Open Mindedness, Rationality, and Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6251472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arie W Kruglanski (0000-0002-4777-9299), Lauren M Boyatzi |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-232 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913811.2012.711023 |
| OpenAlex | W2142482704 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 52 |
Charles Taber and Milton Lodge provide compelling evidence that people's minds may be closed to information that is inconsistent with their prior beliefs. This type of inconsistency has often been termed "irrational." However, recent research suggests that being open or closed minded is not an unchanging variable but depends on one's goals, including one's need for closure, which vary from person to person and situation to situation. In this vein, as Taber and Lodge suggest, those who have more political information may, after having been open minded enough to acquire the information, become closed minded by virtue of having acquired it. At the same time, being more open minded to inaccurate information might lead one in the wrong direction; hence, open mindedness does not necessarily enhance the accuracy of one's judgments or the quality of one's decisions. We may need to rethink the concept of an enlightened, well-informed electorate, to the extent that it assumes the unqualified benefits of open mindedness. Notes 1. One might object that more information means more accurate information, where accuracy is defined as information that leads to better outcomes. Such framing, however, renders tautological (or definitional) the assertion that more information leads to better outcomes. Additional informationNotes on contributorsArie W. Kruglanski Arie W. Kruglanski, is the author, inter alia, of The Psychology of Closed Mindedness (Psychology Press, 2004) Lauren M. Boyatzi Lauren M. Boyatzi, is a graduate student
Assertion · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Irrational number · Rationality · Sociology · Virtue · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
When should one be open-minded
Is Epistocracy Irrational
Who motivates? Longitudinal relationships among political discussions, interest, and efficacy for high school students with varying levels of political open‐mindedness
The Scope and Generality of Automatic Affective Biases in Political Thinking
Waving the Red Cloth
Size Matters
Political Parties, Motivated Reasoning, and Public Opinion Formation
The Illusion of Choice in Democratic Politics
Rigid Religious Faith Promotes Selective Exposure to Attitude-Congruent Political Information
Motivated Skepticism or Inevitable Conviction? Dogmatism and the Study of Politics
What Motivates Reasoning? A Theory of Goal‐Dependent Political Evaluation
"Why People "Don't Trust the Evidence
How Deliberation Happens
How 'Critically Open-Minded' Are We? An Australian Perspective Through the World Values Survey
Advances In Experimental Social Psychology
The principles of psychology.
Models of Bounded Rationality
Cognitive dissonance
Pragmatism
Groups as epistemic providers
Intuitive and deliberate judgments are based on common principles.
Motivated Reasoning With Stereotypes
A New Look at Dissonance Theory
Motivated closing of the mind
Reasoning the fast and frugal way
Toward an ecological theory of social perception.
Homo Heuristicus
A Newer Look
Rationality as Process and as Product of Thought
Judgment under Uncertainty
On the psychology of prediction.
The Psychology of Self-Affirmation
Maps of Bounded Rationality
Perception and Misperception in International Politics
Attitude Structure and Function
The Return of the Repressed
Quest for accuracy in person perception
On the Application of Inductive Logic
Emotional transfer in goal systems
The freezing and unfreezing of lay-inferences
Motivated Social Cognition
The robust beauty of improper linear models in decision making
Politics as Vocation
Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs
Thinking is for doing
Reactions to a Black professional
Motivated augmentation and reduction of the overattribution bias
Motivated resistance and openness to persuasion in the presence or absence of prior information
Motivated skepticism
The case for motivated reasoning
Linear models in decision making
"The psychology of being "right
Errors and mistakes
From Max Weber
Durkheim on Rationality
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |