Perusing Brendan Nyhan's papers will get you a lot of reading in short order: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/ http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/. This is one pa

Perusing Brendan Nyhan's papers will get you a lot of reading in short order: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/ http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/. This is one paper on the topic from another group: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/10/12/0956797610385953.abstract http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/10/12/095679761038... This paper from Yale is pretty interesting: http://www.motherjones.com/files/kahan_paper_cultural_cognition_of_scientific_consesus.pdf http://www.motherjones.com/files/kahan_paper_cultural_cognit...