re: Conservatives More Likely To Believe Conspiracy Theories

Kahan goes beyond confirmation bias to something that he calls "identity-protective cognition" (which also calls on confirmation bias to make it work). Confirmation bias is favoring evidence that confirms your prior beliefs, but the idea with identity-protective cognition is selectively crediting evidence that preserves your standing standing in your valued groups (e.g. to stay in good standing as a TD poliboard poaster). The idea here is I see info in ways that keeps me good with my peeps and higher IQ can help me do this.