Political identity, algorithmic news exposure, and trust in digital media: the sequential mediating associations of motivated reasoning and misinformation susceptibility [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBackgroundDigital media have become a major environment in which citizens encounter political news, evaluate public affairs, and form judgments about information credibility.
Sixuan Liu
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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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How People Reason About Stare Decisis: The Role of Political Ideology [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesPast research suggests that people may exhibit directional motivated reasoning whereby they are less skeptical of information that supports their political views. Recent U.S.
Emily Saks, Eugene Borgida
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No Association Between Numerical Ability and Politically Motivated Reasoning in a Large US Probability Sample [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023 Michael N Stagnaro +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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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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