Reasoning Across the Divide: Interpersonal Deliberation, Emotions and Reflective Political Reasoning KU Leuven
One of the biggest challenges facing contemporary democracies is that when making political judgements, most citizens do not engage in reflective political reasoning. Research finds that people’s political reasoning is distorted by a range of cognitive biases and constraints. When faced with opposing information, most people have tendency to neglect it and cling to their prior attitudes. People’s emotional attachment to their favored ...