This paper develops a theory in which heterogeneity in political preferences produces a partisan disagreement about … objective facts. A political decision involving both idiosyncratic preferences and scientific knowledge is considered. Voters … voters' intrinsic preferences or because of rigidities in the political process. The theory predicts that providing mixed …

There are many important decision problems where learning through experimentation is costly or impossible. In these … degree of bias due to selection neglect increases when other decision makers become more informed, or become more rational …

(motivated procrastination) turns out to be robust to accounting for decision-makers' time preferences and emotional responses …, and looms largest for decision makers who tend to not acquire information that may include negative news. …

This paper presents a novel approach to analyze human decision-making that involves comparing the behavior of …

their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts …