{"id":32887,"date":"2011-02-07T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T15:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32887"},"modified":"2013-11-14T06:14:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T11:14:58","slug":"pre-existing-bias-and-perceptions-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/07\/pre-existing-bias-and-perceptions-of-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Existing Bias and Perceptions of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The figure below, featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~dguber\/POLS234\/articles\/bartels.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a paper by political scientist Larry Bartels<\/a>, maps partisan identification &#8212; whether one identifies as a Democrat, an Independent, or a Republican, and how strongly &#8212; with opinions as to whether unemployment and inflation had gotten better or worse under Reagan&#8217;s presidency (1981-1988). \u00a0It shows that partisan beliefs strongly predict people&#8217;s opinions about discernable facts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/128.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32889\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/128.jpg\" width=\"553\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/128.jpg 767w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/128-500x361.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginandtacos.com\/2011\/01\/06\/screaming-at-a-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gin and Tacos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The figure below, featured in a paper by political scientist Larry Bartels, maps partisan identification &#8212; whether one identifies as a Democrat, an Independent, or a Republican, and how strongly &#8212; with opinions as to whether unemployment and inflation had gotten better or worse under Reagan&#8217;s presidency (1981-1988). \u00a0It shows that partisan beliefs strongly predict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,675,693],"class_list":["post-32887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","tag-psychology","tag-public-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32887"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59137,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32887\/revisions\/59137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}