Beliefs about COVID-19 in Canada, the U.K., and the U.S.A.: A novel test of political polarization and motivated reasoning

What are the psychological consequences of the increasingly politicized nature of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States relative to similar Western countries? In a two-wave study completed early (March) and later (December) in the pandemic, we found that polarization was greater in the U.S. (N=...

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Main Authors: Pennycook, Gordon, McPhetres, Jonathon, Bago, Bence, Rand, David Gertler
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Published: Center for Open Science 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131119