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Gender differences in motivated reasoning [PDF]

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021
Men and women systematically differ in their beliefs about their performance relative to others; in particular, men tend to be more overconfident. This paper provides support for one explanation for gender differences in overconfidence, performance-motivated reasoning, in which people distort how they process new information in ways that make them ...
Michael Thaler
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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 Reports
Human 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, Regina Reichardt, Markus Appel   +2 more
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The critical role of emotional communication for motivated reasoning [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Persuasive 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 Psychology
This 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, Anna Dorfman, Maayan Katzir   +2 more
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Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning [PDF]

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2022
Bence Bago, David Rand, Jonathon Mcphetres   +2 more
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The role of narcissism and motivated reasoning on misinformation propagation

Frontiers in Communication
BackgroundExplanations for why social media users propagate misinformation include failure of classical reasoning (over-reliance on intuitive heuristics), motivated reasoning (conforming to group opinion), and personality traits (e.g., narcissism ...
Tim Mackey, Raphaël Cuomo, Mackey Tim K   +2 more
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Institutional hybridity and policy-motivated reasoning structure public evaluations of the Supreme Court [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2023
Shana Kushner Gadarian, Logan Strother
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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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Think different? Populist attitudes and their consequences on vote behaviour in the 2016 and 2020 italian constitutional referenda

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, Claudia Leone, Patrizia Catellani   +2 more
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