#motivatedreasoning — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #motivatedreasoning, aggregated by home.social.
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Tommaso Piazza reviews Gabriele Contessa's book Science Denial in SERRC, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/06/12/a-review-of-gabriele-contessas-science-denial-tommaso-piazza/
An eralier review was by Maya Goldenberg, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/04/29/science-denial-post-trust-and-epistemic-blame-a-review-of-contessas-science-denial-maya-goldenberg/
#science #tiede #denial #scienceDenial #epistemology #socialScience #climateDenial #pseudoscience #postTruth #truth #misinformation #trust #motivatedInquiry #evidence #reasoning #motivatedReasoning #harm #egoism #collectiveResponsibility #society #futures #planetEarth #resistance #belief #ideology #epistemicSecurity #psychology #philosophyOfScience #philosophy #filosofia
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The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Ruling Is Results-Driven Cynicism, Not Law
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Choice Architecture in Occupational Choices
http://repec.business.uzh.ch/RePEc/iso/leadinghouse/0255_lhwpaper.pdf
This study uses a Swiss job board to analyze how rank order and design influence high-stakes occupational choices. Higher rankings increased applications, especially for high-paying and gender-congruent occupations. Users interpreted rank to justify choices aligning with identity, providing field evidence for motivated reasoning. An interactive, visually enriched interface redesign boosted applications and watch list usage. Results show that reducing cognitive load expands the variety of options individuals consider and remember.
#choicearchitecture #motivatedreasoning #laborEconomics #jobtech #ExperimentalEcon
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@SnowyCA
The same reason people participate in other risky activities: they mistakenly believe bad things only happen to other people. -
Feynman's Last Warning: “Cargo Cult Science”
#RichardFeynman #Science #Research #Culture #CargoCultScience #MotivatedReasoning #HOTS #CriticalThinking
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Prompting an #AI model to take on a persona can impact the quality of its reasoning.
Example: political personas reasoned better when evidence aligned with their politics — a la #motivatedReasoning.
Neither chain-of-thought nor accuracy prompts helped.
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In my observation, #SunkCost, #ego, and #MotivatedReasoning are the reasons why people, groups, and communities fall into patterns, and why breaking these patterns can be challenging.
Excess time, energy, and money have been expended and value must be returned to justify the expenditure.
The time, energy, and money benefits someone or some team’s self-image and status.
The justification and optics are wound up in a rationale.
My $0.02.
I don’t make the rules.
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Hilda Bastian muistuttaa kahdesta tavallisesta ajatteluvinoumasta todellisuuden tuntemisen esteinä, https://statistically-funny.blogspot.com/2025/06/motivated-reasoning-alert-you-are-at.html
Lisää vineitä täältä: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
#tieto #knowledge #todellisuus #reality #reasoning #motivatedReasoning #paattely #ajattelu #some #psychology #bias
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The Unintended Effects of Ethical Decision Aids in Organizations https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/5136031.pdf?abstractid=5136031&mirid=1
"Organizations frequently utilize Contemplation Questions in an attempt to foster ethical #decisionMaking and encourage employees to reflect on their actions. Presumably, they particularly target ’bad apples’—those (unknown) employees with a higher propensity for unethical behavior. However, our results indicate that CQs may inadvertently cause ’boomerang’ effects for this group. Individuals with lower #moral identities tend to use their interaction with CQs to justify their unethical preferences, increasing the likelihood of them acting unethically. While some CQs have positive effects on individuals with high moral identities, overall, the unintended consequences seem to be more significant. This aligns with the concept of motivated moral reasoning, where individuals rationalize their initial moral choices."
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SERRCistä osui silmiin Neil Levyn terävä analyysi Blake Roeberin 2024 kirjasta Political Humility, joka koskee poliittisen tiedon mahdollisuutta, https://social-epistemology.com/2024/10/15/enjoying-humble-pie-reflections-on-roebers-political-humility-neil-levy/
Torppaako IDC - identity-protective cognition - tosiaankin sellaisen "in our hyperpartisan world", niin että jää vain vaihtelevan sivistyneitä arvauksia jos niitäkään, vai missä Roeber erehtyy?
#serrc #politicalKnowledge #knowledge #reasoning #motivatedReasoning #bias #socialEpistemology #partisanship #mysideBias #puolueellisuus #partiality #expertKnowledge #tieto
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Occam's Knife Game:
People who are in deep denial about what they nonetheless know to be the truth will offer up every explanation they can imagine except the correct one in an effort to sustain their denial. You can tell they understand the truth of the matter, because of how carefully and completely they avoid it.
See also: spit-balling, red herring, motivated reasoning, dishonesty.
#socialMedia #denial #occamsRazor #occamsKnifeGame #climateChange
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@PragmaticAndy @johannarothman @RonJeffries @marick
My thesis is that #SunkCost, #ego, and #MotivatedReasoning is why we can’t have nice things.
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#MotivatedReasoning at work:
"[Antarctic researcher] told Lonely Planet he used to be conflicted about tourism in Antarctica, but after 10 years of research and serving as a lecturer on cruises, he has found "the benefits far outweigh the negatives." ...once visitors go home, they are "ambassadors of Antarctica" and "more appreciative of the urgent need to address global climate change by reaching out to their elected representatives on this issue."
Quantified? Nope.
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Is this a symptom of when reality pierces the motivated and reasoned veil of ignorance?
h/t @ChristosArgyrop
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#Myside #bias is me google searching "What is the youngest recommended age for reading the Lord of the Rings to a child?" and stopping my search only when I've found a page that says 4 years old. Even if I have to make that page myself! 🙃
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#SunkCost, #ego, and #MotivatedReasoning have high R-squared and low p-value for model explainability: https://thecanadian.social/@mike/111030070425084238 via @mike
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Similar to the latter "Your Health vs. My Liberty" result (preferring liberty to equality predicted less hand-washing, staying at home, etc.), endorsing "individual responsibility over gov...support" predicted lower "truth discernment" in "most" (of 16) nations.
#Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a9frz
#Epistemology #Politics #MotivatedReasoning? #Rationality #DecisionScience #CogSci #xPhi
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CW: Long thread/17
For Fix, the interest rate/inflation superstition is a tragicomedy: tragic because it worsens the problem it seeks to solve, and comic, because of the absurd #MotivatedReasoning that Friedman-pilled economists indulge in when they are confronted with the overwhelming evidence against their ideological certainty.
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Are scientists less prone to motivated reasoning? - Enlarge / Do these people look prone to motivated reasoning? (credit: G... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1815077 #motivatedreasoning #behavioralscience #replication #scientists #science
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Egalitarians are more aware of inequality - Enlarge / Do you notice the homeless person's tent or the city's skyscrapers? (c... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1754113 #motivatedreasoning #behavioralscience #humanbehavior #inequality #perception #science
