Motivated Reasoning in the Context of Climate Change: The Moderating Role of Numeracy, Need for Cognition, and the Dark Factor of Personality

The study investigated whether people engage in motivated reasoning in the context of climate change an whether the degree of motivated reasoning is moderated by individual abilities (i.e., numeracy), thinking styles (i.e., NFC), and personality (i.e., Dark Factor). Higher numeracy predicted reduced motivated reasoning, the other moderators had no effect.