• Motivated reasoning is a cognitive and social response in which individuals, consciously or sub-consciously, allow emotion-loaded motivational biases...
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  • known for her work in social cognition and motivated reasoning. Her seminal paper "The Case for Motivated Reasoning", published in Psychological Bulletin in...
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  • Powell interpreted motivated reasoning in the moral domain as a special pattern of reasoning predicted by coherence-based reasoning framework. This general...
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  • self-fulfilling prophecy. Emotional reasoning is related to other similar concepts, such as: motivated reasoning, a type of reasoning wherein individuals reach...
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  • attitudes that fortify the existing frame of reference. The theory of motivated reasoning is proposed to be driven by the individual's motivation to think...
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  • devastated if they failed a test as a way to motivate them to study harder for it. The role of motivated reasoning in affective forecasting has been demonstrated...
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    the effects of confirmation bias, motivated reasoning and other cognitive biases that can seriously distort reasoning, particularly in dysfunctional and...
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  • existing values and beliefs. The different standards explanation or motivated reasoning refers to the validity of arguments. This is confirmation bias taken...
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  • Harenski, Keith; Kilts, Clint; Hamann, Stephan (2006), "Neural bases of motivated reasoning: An fMRI study of emotional constraints on partisan political judgment...
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  • Inductive reasoning refers to a variety of methods of reasoning in which the conclusion of an argument is supported not with deductive certainty, but...
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  • phenomenon of motivated reasoning, of which there are several types, including "cheerleading" and congenial inference. Motivated reasoning means that a...
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  • Black utility heuristic—that people use to make political decisions. Motivated reasoning is a cognitive phenomena that occurs when an individual changes a...
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    sometimes described as "hot cognition" versus "cold cognition", as motivated reasoning can involve a state of arousal. Among the "cold" biases, some are...
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  • a "soldier mindset", which she says is a natural tendency to use motivated reasoning to defend one's existing beliefs instead of being open to changing...
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  • generated by an intention to forget, making it a motivated action. There are two main classes of motivated forgetting: psychological repression is an unconscious...
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  • biases Logic-based therapy § Higher order premises Motivated reasoning – Using emotionally-biased reasoning to produce justifications or make decisions Post-rationalist...
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    the world that ignores (partly out of ignorance, and partly out of motivated reasoning) to [sic] real complexities of our civilisation. It is ultimately...
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  • ultimately his conclusions are undermined by confirmation bias and motivated reasoning, and were reliant on anecdotal evidence rather than controlled experimental...
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  • Deductive reasoning is the process of drawing valid inferences. An inference is valid if its conclusion follows logically from its premises, meaning that...
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  • which is the motivated reasoning concept, which is an emotion-biased decision-making phenomenon. It is the idea that humans are motivated to believe whatever...
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    Dawson, Erica; Gilovich, Thomas; Regan, Dennis T. (October 2002). "Motivated Reasoning and Performance on the was on Selection Task". Personality and Social...
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  • Hot cognition is a hypothesis on motivated reasoning in which a person's thinking is influenced by their emotional state. Put simply, hot cognition is...
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  • subfield of automated reasoning and mathematical logic dealing with proving mathematical theorems by computer programs. Automated reasoning over mathematical...
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    power and privilege." Dreher has repeatedly called these charges "motivated reasoning" on his blog. The Catholic writer Elizabeth Bruenig has argued that...
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  • the world reflects the way the world really is Motivated reasoning – Using emotionally-biased reasoning to produce justifications or make decisions Observational...
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    Minimisation (psychology) – Type of deception Motivated reasoning – Using emotionally-biased reasoning to produce justifications or make decisions Rationalization...
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  • Mathiasen, A., & Petersen, N. (2019). The Role of Evidence in Politics: Motivated Reasoning and Persuasion among Politicians. British Journal of Political Science...
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  • psychotherapy topic Motivated forgetting – Psychological defense mechanism Motivated reasoning – Using emotionally-biased reasoning to produce justifications...
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  • making this film an exercise, not in honest truth-seeking but rather motivated reasoning." Some of those open to Walsh's perspective, such as Zoran Janković...
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  • 2021). "What's the Value of Partisan Loyalty? Partisan Ambivalence, Motivated Reasoning, and Correct Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections". Political Psychology...
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