- More statistics, less persuasion: a cultural theory of gun-risk perceptions
- Author:
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Kahan, Dan M. / Braman, Donald
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- University of Pennsylvania Law Review
- Topics:
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Gun Carrying, Legislation and Policy, Ownership, Social Science
- Keywords:
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GUN control, cultural view, culture, empirical analysis
The authors argue that individuals’ positions on gun control vary depending on their cultural worldviews. Egalitarians generally support gun control, whereas individualists oppose it. They suggest that...
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- Modeling Facts, Culture, and Cognition in the Gun Debate
- Author:
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Braman, Donald / Kahan, Dan / Grimmelmann, James
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Social Justice Research
- Topics:
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Legislation and Policy, Public Opinion
- Keywords:
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COGNITION & culture, Cross-cultural studies, DELIBERATION, GUN control, SOCIALIZATION
The authors reviewed social psychology literature in order to identify the mechanisms that systematically cause individuals to conform their factual beliefs about guns to their culturally grounded moral...
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- Overcoming the fear of guns, the fear of gun control, and the fear of cultural politics: constructing a better gun debate
- Author:
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Braman, Donald / Kahan, Dan M.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Emory Law Journal
- Topics:
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Legislation and Policy, Public Opinion, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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DEBATES & debating, FIREARMS -- Law & legislation, GUN control, Social policy, UNITED States
Individuals’ positions on gun control express cultural values, a fact ignored in the dominant approaches to gun policy-making in the U.S. Because of the values attached to guns, the controversy over...
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