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Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of 'alternative facts', 'fake news’ that some believe could be remedied by ‘factfulness’, the question has never been more pressing. After years of ideologically polarised debates on this topic, the book seeks to further advance our understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge resistance by integrating insights from the social, economic and evolutionary sciences. It identifies simplistic views in public and scholarly debates about what facts, knowledge and human motivations are and what 'rational' use of information actually means. The examples used include controversies about nature-nurture, climate change, gender roles, vaccination, genetically modified food and artificial intelligence. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship as well as personal experiences of culture clashes, the book is aimed at the general, educated public as well as students and scholars interested in the interface of human motivation and the urgent social problems of today.

Belief and doubt. --- Fake news --- Insight. --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Social aspects. --- Fact resistance. --- Ignorance studies. --- Knowledge resistance. --- climate change. --- denial. --- epistemic uncertainty. --- fact resistance. --- fake news. --- ignorance studies. --- knowledge resistance. --- knowledge tribes. --- strategic ignorance. --- vaccination.

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This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that influence the supply of misinformation and factors influencing how and why people expose themselves to and process information that may support or contradict their beliefs and attitudes. A team of authors from across a range of disciplines address the phenomena of knowledge resistance and its causes and consequences at the macro- as well as the micro-level. The chapters take a philosophical look at the notion of knowledge resistance, before moving on to discuss issues such as misinformation and fake news, psychological mechanisms such as motivated reasoning in processes of selective exposure and attention, how people respond to evidence and fact-checking, the role of political partisanship, political polarization over factual beliefs, and how knowledge resistance might be counteracted. This book will have a broad appeal to scholars and students interested in knowledge resistance, primarily within philosophy, psychology, media and communication, and political science, as well as journalists and policymakers.

Fake news. --- Skepticism. --- Political culture. --- Culture --- Political science --- Scepticism --- Unbelief --- Agnosticism --- Belief and doubt --- Free thought --- Disinformation --- Hoaxes --- Journalism --- affective polarization --- anti-vaxx --- attitudes --- attitude-consistent information --- attitude-discrepant Information --- beliefs attitudes knowledge --- biased information processing --- citizens as co-producers of information --- citizens as disseminators of information --- citizens as media consumers --- citizen knowledge motivated reasoning fact-checking --- climate change --- climate change denial --- cognition --- cognitive ability --- cognitive dissonance knowledge resistance --- cognitive dissonance political polarization --- communication --- communication knowledge resistance --- confirmation bias knowledge resistance --- confirmation bias political polarization --- conspiracies --- conspiracy theories --- conspiracy theorists --- contemporary high-choice media environments --- contradictory information --- counteracting knowledge resistance --- credibility perceptions knowledge resistance --- death of expertise --- denying expert authority