Motivated reasoning is the mental process that include mechanisms for accessing, constructing, and evaluating beliefs in response to new information or...

level (motivated by self-interest); conventional level (motivated by maintaining social-order, rules and laws); and post-conventional level (motivated by...

known for her work in social cognition and motivated reasoning. Her seminal paper "The Case for Motivated Reasoning", published in Psychological Bulletin in...

self-fulfilling prophecy. Emotional reasoning is related to other similar concepts, such as: motivated reasoning, a type of reasoning wherein individuals reach...

attitudes that fortify the existing frame of reference. The theory of motivated reasoning is proposed to be driven by the individual's motivation to think...

devastated if they failed a test as a way to motivate them to study harder for it. The role of motivated reasoning in affective forecasting has been demonstrated...

on the type and degree of motivation. Such behavior is a type of motivated reasoning. The idea has been used to explain why people use stereotyping, biases...

the effects of confirmation bias, motivated reasoning and other cognitive biases that can seriously distort reasoning, particularly in dysfunctional and...

Harenski, Keith; Kilts, Clint; Hamann, Stephan (2006), "Neural bases of motivated reasoning: An fMRI study of emotional constraints on partisan political judgment...

existing values and beliefs. The different standards explanation or motivated reasoning refers to the validity of arguments. This is confirmation bias taken...

Black utility heuristic—that people use to make political decisions. Motivated reasoning is a cognitive phenomena that occurs when an individual changes a...

a "soldier mindset", which she says is a natural tendency to use motivated reasoning to defend one's existing beliefs instead of being open to changing...

phenomenon of motivated reasoning, of which there are several types, including "cheerleading" and congenial inference. Motivated reasoning means that a...

generated by an intention to forget, making it a motivated action. There are two main classes of motivated forgetting: psychological repression is an unconscious...

Inductive reasoning refers to a variety of methods of reasoning in which the conclusion of an argument is supported not with deductive certainty, but...

Hot cognition is a hypothesis on motivated reasoning in which a person's thinking is influenced by their emotional state. Put simply, hot cognition is...

subfield of automated reasoning and mathematical logic dealing with proving mathematical theorems by computer programs. Automated reasoning over mathematical...

List of memory biases Logic-based therapy § Higher order premises Motivated reasoning – Processing personal/social information Post-rationalist cognitive...

sometimes described as "hot cognition" versus "cold cognition", as motivated reasoning can involve a state of arousal. Among the "cold" biases, some are...

of Lawrence Kohlberg's stage theory of moral reasoning. Inspired in part by work on motivated reasoning, automaticity, and Antonio Damasio's somatic marker...

the world that ignores (partly out of ignorance, and partly out of motivated reasoning) to [sic] real complexities of our civilisation. It is ultimately...

Dawson, Erica; Gilovich, Thomas; Regan, Dennis T. (October 2002). "Motivated Reasoning and Performance on the was on Selection Task". Personality and Social...

ultimately his conclusions are undermined by confirmation bias and motivated reasoning, and were reliant on anecdotal evidence rather than controlled experimental...

can also be explained by other factors such as moral values and motivated reasoning. This is because decision-making entails both the cognitive architecture...

goals. Psychology portal Bounded rationality Low-information voter Motivated reasoning Representativeness heuristic Path of least resistance Stanovich,...

which is the motivated reasoning concept, which is an emotion-biased decision-making phenomenon. It is the idea that humans are motivated to believe whatever...

Harenski, Keith; Kilts, Clint; Hamann, Stephan (2006), "Neural Bases of Motivated Reasoning: An fMRI Study of Emotional Constraints on Partisan Political Judgment...

2021). "What's the Value of Partisan Loyalty? Partisan Ambivalence, Motivated Reasoning, and Correct Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections". Political Psychology...

Deductive reasoning is the process of drawing valid inferences. An inference is valid if its conclusion follows logically from its premises, meaning that...

making this film an exercise, not in honest truth-seeking but rather motivated reasoning." Some of those open to Walsh's perspective, such as Zoran Janković...