News Finding: Facebook is in crisis mode, but the company can take major steps to fix itself - and the global community it says it wants to promote.
Paper Finding: Maintaining beliefs and judgments that are aligned with one's political identity therefore is a higher priority than achieving accuracy, and people with the highest reasoning abilities are better able to use efficient strategies to do that, as compared to people with lowest reasoning abilities.
News Context: Facebook is in crisis mode, but the company can take major steps to fix itself - and the global community it says it wants to promote. Facebook founder, CEO and majority shareholder Mark Zuckerberg need not wait for governments to impose regulations. If he and other industry leaders wanted to, they could make meaningful changes fairly quickly.
Paper Context: However, their personal positions on these policies or issues have strong consequences for their social identity. Maintaining beliefs and judgments that are aligned with one's political identity therefore is a higher priority than achieving accuracy, and people with the highest reasoning abilities are better able to use efficient strategies to do that, as compared to people with lowest reasoning abilities. In the control condition, people who were strong at math were able to effectively solve an analytical problem.