Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2016

Publication Title

portal: Libraries and the Academy

Volume

16

Issue

3

First page number:

511

Last page number:

528

Abstract

Research in psychology and political science has identified motivated reasoning as a set of biases that inhibit one’s ability to process political information objectively. This research has important implications for the information literacy movement’s aims of fostering lifelong learning and informed citizenship. This essay argues that information literacy education should broaden its scope to include more than just knowledge of information and its sources; it should also include knowledge of how people interact with information, particularly the ways that motivated reasoning can influence citizens’ interactions with political information.

Keywords

Citizenship--Study and teaching; Critical thinking; Information literacy--Study and teaching

Disciplines

Information Literacy

Language

English

Comments

This is a manuscript version of this article. The final, copy-edited version appears in Lenker, “Motivated Reasoning, Political Information, and Information Literacy Education,” portal: Libraries and the Academy, vol. 16, no. 3 (2016): 511-528.

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