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Motivated reasoning as a pervasive feature of human psychology poses challenges to the ideal of liberal democratic government, which relies on citizens’ rationality.
Peter Beattie, Danielle Snider
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Gender differences in motivated reasoning [PDF]
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 ...
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In this exploratory study with a community sample (N = 115), we look at the perception of pro-Russia and pro-Ukraine misinformation, mimicking content shared by naive Facebook users, and the factors related to it among pro-Ukraine Latvians.
Martins Priedols, Girts Dimdins
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Political parties, motivated reasoning, and public opinion formation [PDF]
A key characteristic of democratic politics is competition between groups, first of all political parties. Yet, the unavoidably partisan nature of political conflict has had too little influence on scholarship on political psychology.
Aldrich +164 more
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In an era of rising inequality, the U.S. public’s relatively modest support for redistributive policies has been a puzzle for scholars. Deepening the paradox is recent evidence that presenting information about inequality increases subjects’ support for ...
Clem Brooks, Elijah Harter
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Primary vs. secondary knowledge contents in reasoning: Motivated and efficient vs. overburdened
Primary knowledge is the knowledge for which our cognitive architecture has evolved so that we acquire it quickly and effortlessly. We are intrinsically motivated to process it.
Florence Lespiau, André Tricot
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Microservice Transition and its Granularity Problem: A Systematic Mapping Study [PDF]
Microservices have gained wide recognition and acceptance in software industries as an emerging architectural style for autonomic, scalable, and more reliable computing.
Andrawos M +87 more
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Devil in a New Dress: Reframing as an Alternative Method of Motivated Reasoning [PDF]
Much research has been conducted in the field of motivated reasoning, with most of this work focused on the tendency of motivated reasoners to reject counterarguments out of hand, the so-called disconfirmation bias. The objective of this work is markedly
Leeson, Nathaniel
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Better but still biased: Analytic cognitive style and belief bias [PDF]
Belief bias is the tendency for prior beliefs to influence people's deductive reasoning in two ways: through the application of a simple belief-heuristic (response bias) and through the application of more effortful reasoning for unbelievable conclusions
Handley, SJ +3 more
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Renormalizability, fundamentality and a final theory: The role of UV-completion in the search for quantum gravity [PDF]
Principles are central to physical reasoning, particularly in the search for a theory of quantum gravity (QG), where novel empirical data is lacking.
Crowther, Karen, Linnemann, Niels
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