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International Journal of Communication, 2023 Motivated reasoning is a form of biased processing where people evaluate messaging in such a way that it allows them to confirm their preexisting beliefs. The self-concept approach to motivated reasoning assumes that ego involvement drives this process,
David M. Keating, Qinjun Fan
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Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2019 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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Individual differences in receptivity to scientific bullshit [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2020 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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 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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Societies, 2021 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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Motivated reasoning during recruitment. [PDF]
Journal of Applied Psychology, 2018 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, HB, Balcetis, E, De Cremer, D
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Primary vs. secondary knowledge contents in reasoning: Motivated and efficient vs. overburdened
Acta Psychologica, 2022 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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Motivated reasoning and democratic accountability
American Political Science Review, 2020 Does motivated reasoning harm democratic accountability? Substantial evidence from political behavior research indicates that voters have ``directional motives" beyond accuracy, which is often taken as evidence that they are ill-equipped to hold politicians accountable.
ANDREW T. LITTLE +2 more
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Energy conservation goals: What people adopt, what they recommend, and why
Judgment and Decision Making, 2016 Failures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by adopting policies, technologies, and lifestyle changes have led the world to the brink of crisis, or likely beyond.
Shahzeen Z. Attari +2 more
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Media and Communication, 2023 Messages that are designed to match a recipient’s personality, as enabled by microtargeting, have been found to influence political reasoning and even voting intentions.
Hannah Decker, Nicole Krämer
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