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Cover -- Anti-scientific Americans: The Prevalence, Origins, And Political Consequences Of Anti-intellectualism In The Us -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: Anti-scientific Americans? -- Conceptualizing Anti-intellectualism -- It's Personal: Anti-intellectualism As An Affective And Group-based Phenomenon -- Expert Dislike And Distrust -- Who Is An Expert? Measuring Anti-expert Attitudes -- Experts And Intellectuals: The Eye Of The Beholder Approach -- The Scientific Community: A More-narrow Approach -- How Anti-intellectualism Relates To Populism What's At Stake? -- The Plan Of This Book -- A Word Of Caution: Experts Are People Too -- 2: The Nature And Origins Of Anti-intellectualism -- Understanding Anti-intellectualism: An Affective And Group-centric Theory -- Psychologically Unpacking The Group-based Origins Of Expert Dislike And Distrust -- Applying Sit, Sct, And Itt To Anti-intellectual Attitude Endorsement -- The Political Psychological Inputs And Policy-relevant Outputs Of Anti-intellectual Attitude Endorsement -- Static Inputs: Who Holds Anti-intellectual Attitudes? -- Republican Partisan Identity And Symbolic Ideology A Hostile Legacy -- Connecting Anti-expert Partisan Rhetoric To Public Opinion -- Preferences For Limited Government -- Religiosity -- The Tea Party And The Temporal Dynamics Of Asymmetric Polarization -- Dynamic Inputs: What Motivates Change In Anti-intellectualism? -- Knowledge Of Basic Scientific Facts -- Interest In Scientific Research -- Experts' Policy Influence: The Bidirectionality Thesis -- Testing The Group-centric Model: A Preview -- 3: Validating Two Approaches To Measuring Anti-intellectual Attitude Endorsement In Public-opinion Surveys A Refresher: Two Approaches To Measuring Anti-intellectual Attitude Endorsement -- The Public-opinion Data: An Overview -- Gss Time Series Studies (1974-2018) -- Gss Panel Studies (2006-2010, 2008-2012, 2010-2014) -- Cspp Panel Study (2016) -- Anes Pilot Study (2019) An