PaulSlovic and I have written a short response to Sunstein.
In one piece, PaulSlovic, Don Braman, John Gastil and I defend the cultural cognition thesis, which asserts that individuals' cultural worldviews shape their perceptions of various societal risks.
Cultural Cognition Project member PaulSlovic addresses the psychological origins of the American public's lack of attention to genocide in Darfur in an interview on the Brian Lehrer show.
PAULSLOVIC: The interaction is complex and we are still trying to figure out what the nature of this dance of affect and reason is because sometimes when you think hard and deliberate about something, that actually creates feeling or affect.
PAULSLOVIC: When we showed just the picture of the child, the childs name, and the information that they were suffering from malnutrition, and gave people the opportunity to donate money that would go to this child, we got a fairly strong response.
PAULSLOVIC: Certainly in some sense it is, it is also the strong response to the victims of hurricane Katrina, could be another example.
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