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Motivated Reasoning and Public Opinion
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2011Citizens, especially those who are knowledgeable and care the most about politics, are motivated to defend their beliefs and attitudes in the face of discrepant information. These motivated biases strongly influence the way people think about health care policies and the politicians and parties that propose or attack these contentious policies.
April A, Strickland +2 more
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Reasoning about software using metrics and expert opinion
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, 2007When comparing software programs on the basis of more than one metric a difficulty arises when the metrics are contradictory or if there are no standard acceptance thresholds. An appealing solution in such cases is to incorporate expert opinion to resolve the inconsistencies.
Norita B. Ahmad, Phillip A. Laplante
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The Court Opinion: Teaching Reasoning and Communication
The Educational Forum, 1985(1985). The Court Opinion: Teaching Reasoning and Communication. The Educational Forum: Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 451-463.
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Male fertility preservation in cancer patients. Reasoned opinion
Research Innovation Views Embryology ReproductionEvery day about thirty cancers are diagnosed in young Italian patients. Of these, 37.4% are cases of young men mainly affected by testicular, colon-rectal or thyroid cancer, melanoma or Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
A. Anastasi +3 more
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Reasoned Opinion of a Tax Authority: The Legal Nature and Opportunities for Appeal
Financial lawThis article examines the legal nature of the motivated opinion of the tax authority as the final document adopted in the tax monitoring procedure, taking into account the tasks it solves, initially formulated by the legislator when introducing a new ...
O. Lyutova
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Motivated Reasoning and Public Opinion Perception
Public Opinion Quarterly, 2011Theorists posit that a public—unlike a mass of individuals— forms opinions through awareness of multiple viewpoints and recogni- tion of opposition in a polity. Whether individuals pursue information on others political preferences is another matter.
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Professional reasoning in expressing the auditor's opinion [PDF]
, 2009 Unlike other information, assertions and conclusions made during the audit process, the auditor's opinion expressed in the report on the accuracy of the financial statements in terms of the company’s image is available to all users. The result of a series of professional judgments based on complex theoretical and practical knowledge developed within ...
Bunget, Ovidiu-Constantin +2 more
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On the complexity of reasoning about opinion diffusion under majority dynamics
Artificial Intelligence, 2020This paper studies complexity analysis of opinion diffusion problems under majority dynamics in social networks. A key problems studied in this paper is consensus problem. Given a graph \(G=(N,E)\) and a rational number \(\alpha\) such that \(\alpha\in(0,1)\), this problem requires to compute a set \(S\subseteq N\) of seeds such that \(|S|\le\alpha|N|\)
Auletta V., Ferraioli D., Greco G.
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The Influence of Partisan Motivated Reasoning on Public Opinion
Political Behavior, 2013Political parties play a vital role in democracies by linking citizens to their representatives. Nonetheless, a longstanding concern is that partisan identification slants decision-making. Citizens may support (oppose) policies that they would otherwise oppose (support) in the absence of an endorsement from a political party—this is due in large part ...
Toby Bolsen +2 more
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Motivated Reasoning, Public Opinion, and Presidential Approval
Political Behavior, 2019Presidential approval is a desirable commodity for US presidents, one that bolsters re-election chances and the prospects of legislative success. An important question, then, is what shapes citizens’ approval of the executive. A large body of literature demonstrates that the president’s handling of issues, particularly the economy, is an important ...
Kathleen Donovan +3 more
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