When and How Different Motives Can Drive Motivated Political Reasoning

• In Event: Values, Ideology, and Norms

Brief Overview

We present a large survey experiment that explores the roles of accuracy, values, and norms-oriented motives in politically motivated thinking, and identifies the conditions under which motivated reasoners are persuaded by political messages.

Authors

• Robin Bayes, Northwestern University

• Jamie N. Druckman, Northwestern University

• Avery Goods, Northwestern University

• Daniel C. Molden, Northwestern University