Salient social identities have long appeared to shape we believe and know. But do social identities also shape we know? This essay argues that performances of “lay epistemology” by populist leaders may shape group norms in ways that encourage supporters to orient to their worlds more through intuition and emotion and less through evidence and data (or at least to report that they do, thus constituting a form of “expressive epistemology”). We summarize research on the positive link between populist attitudes, valuing intuition and emotion over evidence and data, and belief in misinformation and conspiracy theories, and then explore how these relationships may be mutually reinforcing – and strategically beneficial to populist leaders.

中文翻译：

---

外行认识论和民粹主义者的剧本：认识论同一性和表达认识论的作用

长期以来，显着的社会身份似乎塑造了我们的信念和认识。但社会身份也会塑造我们的认知吗？本文认为，民粹主义领导人的“外行认识论”表现可能会塑造群体规范，鼓励支持者更多地通过直觉和情感而不是通过证据和数据来适应他们的世界（或者至少报告他们这样做，从而构成“表达认识论”的一种形式）。我们总结了民粹主义态度、重视直觉和情感胜过证据和数据以及相信错误信息和阴谋论之间的积极联系的研究，然后探讨这些关系如何相辅相成 — — 并在战略上对民粹主义领导人有利。