Perusing Brendan Nyhan&#x27;s papers will get you a lot of reading in short order: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dartmouth.edu&#x2F;~nyhan&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dartmouth.edu&#x2F;~nyhan&#x2F;</a>.<p>This is one paper on the topic from another group: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pss.sagepub.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2010&#x2F;10&#x2F;12&#x2F;0956797610385953.abstract" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pss.sagepub.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2010&#x2F;10&#x2F;12&#x2F;095679761038...</a><p>This paper from Yale is pretty interesting: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;files&#x2F;kahan_paper_cultural_cognition_of_scientific_consesus.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;files&#x2F;kahan_paper_cultural_cognit...</a>