Kahan, D. M., Braman, D., Gastil, J., Slovic, P., and Mertz, C. K. (2007). “Culture and identity-protective cognition: Explaining the white-male effect in risk perception.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 4(3), 465-505.
Explains the finding that white men tend to perceive lower risks from hazards such as guns and environmental threats. Using a national US survey and worldview scales derived from grid-group cultural theory (hierarchy against egalitarianism, individualism against communitarianism), the authors argue the effect comes from identity-protective cognition: people accept or reject evidence of risk according to whether it threatens the standing of activities their cultural group values.
The closest empirical treatment of a lens: worldview deciding which facts a person accepts before any argument begins. Its scales measure two continuous axes that line up partly with the I and M forms, while T and E collapse into a single communitarian and egalitarian pole. Later work finds the individualism-communitarianism scale losing reliability in collectivist countries, a warning for any imported worldview measure.