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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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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 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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How Education Did (and Did Not) Accentuate Partisan Differences During the Ebola Outbreak of 2014-15
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2020 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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Can Oversight Mitigate Auditor’s Motivated Reasoning? An Experimental Study [PDF]
Economic and Business Review, 2015 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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 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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Skepticism Motivated: On the Skeptical Import of Motivated Reasoning [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2020 AbstractEmpirical 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 the epistemic status of beliefs formed through motivated reasoning?
Carter, J. Adam, McKenna, Robin
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Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2022 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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Asia Marketing Journal, 2023 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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Sincere or motivated? Partisan bias in advice-taking
Judgment and Decision Making, 2023 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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