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When, why, and how does interpersonal forgiveness occur? These questions guided recent research that compared the relative abilities of empathy versus motivated reasoning models to account for the influence of relationship closeness on interpersonal ...
Leigh Anne N. Donovan +2 more
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BackgroundDistorted gambling-related cognitions are tightly related to gambling problems, and are one of the main targets of treatment for disordered gambling, but their etiology remains uncertain.
Ismael Muela +2 more
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Motivated reasoning during recruitment. [PDF]
This research shows how job postings can lead job candidates to see themselves as particularly deserving of hiring and high salary. We propose that these entitlement beliefs entail both personal motivations to see oneself as deserving and the ability to justify those motivated judgments.
Kappes, Heather Barry +2 more
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How Education Did (and Did Not) Accentuate Partisan Differences During the Ebola Outbreak of 2014-15
Education exacerbates partisan gaps in scientific knowledge and attitudes. However, previous findings about the extent and symmetry of this moderation have been mixed.
Chris C. Martin
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A salient identity influences individuals' judgment on products. The current research investigates why identity salience sometimes produces asymmetric effects on an individual's judgment such that a salient identity often influences judgment on identity ...
DaHee Han, Claire Heeryung Kim
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Can Oversight Mitigate Auditor’s Motivated Reasoning? An Experimental Study [PDF]
Evidence of auditors’ failure to provide an independent opinion has reopened debates on measures to ensure auditor independence. We examine the effectiveness of oversight on two prominent determinants of auditor’s biased opinion – financial incentives ...
Sergeja Slapničar +2 more
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Sincere or motivated? Partisan bias in advice-taking
Political divisions have become a central feature of modern life. Here, we ask whether these divisions affect advice-taking from co- and counter-partisans in a nonpolitical context.
Yunhao Zhang, David G. Rand
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This article presents an integrative model for the endorsement of pseudoscience: the explanation-polarisation model. It is based on a combination of perceived explanatory satisfaction and group polarisation, offering a perspective different from the ...
Angelo Fasce
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Individual differences in receptivity to scientific bullshit [PDF]
Pseudo-profound bullshit receptivity is the tendency to perceive meaning in important-sounding, nonsense statements. To understand how bullshit receptivity differs across domains, we develop a scale to measure scientific bullshit receptivity — the ...
Anthony Evans +2 more
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Simplification of UML/OCL schemas for efficient reasoning [PDF]
Ensuring the correctness of a conceptual schema is an essential task in order to avoid the propagation of errors during software development. The kind of reasoning required to perform such task is known to be exponential for UML class diagrams alone and ...
Oriol Hilari, Xavier +1 more
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