(Mis)Informed: What Americans Know About Social Groups and Why it Matters for Politics

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(Mis)Informed: What Americans Know About SocialGroups and Why it Matters for Politics
	Contents
	1 The Politics of Racialized Misinformation
		1.1 Introduction
		1.2 Regulated News Sources and Portrayals of Social Groups
		1.3 Unregulated News Sources and Misinformation
		1.4 The Power of Directionally Motivated Reasoning
			1.4.1 Social Identity
			1.4.2 Racial Attitudes
			1.4.3 Partisan and Ideological Affiliation
			1.4.4 News Source
		1.5 Plan of the Element
	2 What Does the Public Know about Socially Marginalized Groups?
		2.1 Measuring Political Misinformation
		2.2 Survey Design and Data
		2.3 How Misinformed Is the Public?
			2.3.1 Is the Public Equally Misinformed?
			2.3.2 Are Social Groups Less Misinformed about Their Own Group?
			2.3.3 Exploring the Determinants of Political Misinformation
		2.4 Robustness Checks
		2.5 Conclusion
	3 The Political Consequences of Racialized Misinformation
		3.1 Measuring Support for Restrictive Racialized Policies
		3.2 Unpacking the Relationship between Political Misinformation and Policy Preferences
		3.3 Misinformation and Candidate Support/Evaluation
		3.4 Discussion
	4 Implications of a (Mis)Informed Public
		4.1 Does Being Informed Affect Policy Support?
		4.2 Correcting Misinformation: (Lack of) Causal Evidence
			4.2.1 Aggregate Experimental Results
			4.2.2 Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
		4.3 Broader Implications
			4.3.1 Future Research Avenues
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