Barron, Kai; Becker, Anna; Huck, Steffen - 2021
We study the causal relationship between moral values ("ought" statements) and factual beliefs ("is" statements) and … show that, contrary to predictions of orthodox Bayesian models, values exert an influence on beliefs. This effect is … mediated by prior political leanings and, thus, contributes to increasing polarization in beliefs about facts. We study this …