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Institutional hybridity and policy-motivated reasoning structure public evaluations of the Supreme Court [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 How does the public assess the Supreme Court and its work? Using data from three surveys conducted over a span of ten years, we show that individuals' policy preferences drive evaluations of the Court and its willingness to reform the Court.
Shana Kushner Gadarian, Logan Strother
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Motivated reasoning about climate change and the influence of Numeracy, Need for Cognition, and the Dark Factor of Personality [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHuman information processing is not always rational but influenced by prior attitudes, a phenomenon commonly known as motivated reasoning. We conducted two studies (N 1 = 556, N 2 = 1198; UK samples) investigating motivated reasoning in the context of ...
Fabian Hutmacher +2 more
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The critical role of emotional communication for motivated reasoning [PDF]
Scientific ReportsPersuasive appeals frequently prove ineffective or produce unintended outcomes, due to the presence of motivated reasoning. Using the example of electric cars adoption, this research delves into the impact of emotional content, message valence, and the ...
Ingo Wolf, Tobias Schröder
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Exploring motivated reasoning in polarization over the unfolding 2023 judicial reform in Israel [PDF]
Communications PsychologyThis work explored polarization over Israel’s Judicial Reform, introduced in January 2023. We find that the reform divided people into pro- and anti-reform camps, which differed in characteristics such as institutional trust, patriotism, and national ...
Dora Simunovic +2 more
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Ideology, motivated reasoning, and cognitive reflection [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2013 Decision scientists have identified various plausible sources of ideological polarization over climate change, gun violence, national security, and like issues that turn on empirical evidence.
Dan M. Kahan
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Motivated Memory in Economics—A Review
Games, 2023 Motivated reasoning refers to the idea that people hold certain beliefs about themselves or the world due to their desire to do so, rather than striving for accuracy.
Andrea Amelio, Florian Zimmermann
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The motivated use of moral principles [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2009 Five studies demonstrated that people selectively use general moral principles to rationalize preferred moral conclusions. In Studies 1a and 1b, college students and community respondents were presented with variations on a traditional moral scenario ...
Eric Luis Uhlmann +3 more
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QOE-IJES, 2021 Following the rise of populist parties and leaders in the last decade, research has extensively investigated the political and economic factors that have driven some voters towards populism.
Mauro Bertolotti +2 more
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Skepticism Motivated: On the Skeptical Import of Motivated Reasoning [PDF]
, 2020 Empirical work on motivated reasoning suggests that our judgments are influenced to a surprising extent by our wants, desires and preferences (Kahan 2016; Lord, Ross, and Lepper 1979; Molden and Higgins 2012; Taber and Lodge 2006). How should we evaluate
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Perceptions of newsworthiness are contaminated by a political usefulness bias [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Are people's perceptions of the newsworthiness of events biased by a tendency to rate as more important any news story that seems likely to lead others to share their own political attitudes?
Harold Pashler, Gail Heriot
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