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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Motivated reasoning"”.
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Construction and validation of the consequences of race-related motivated reasoning scale
Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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It's a Conspiracy: Motivated Reasoning and Conspiracy Ideation in the Rejection of Climate Change
… has examined both political and economic motivated reasoning, media influence in print and television, conspiracy ideation as a predictor of science rejection, and the role of the social construction of scientific knowledge in science rejection. Using these previously studied …
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How motivated reasoning leads to tolerance of false claims: Three experimental tests of mechanisms
… resistance are well- known: people engage in motivated reasoning. They are prone to accept as fact those claims that confirm their opinions, and dismiss claims that challenge them. This dissertation investigates reactions to two types of challenging in- formation: false information that …
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Mind the gap: Issue positions, candidate preferences, and motivated reasoning in U.S. presidential elections
… cognitive dissonance and react by engaging in motivated reasoning, changing their issue positions (via persuasion) and candidate perceptions (via projection) to rationalize their candidate preferences. Although motivated reasoning has been studied extensively in political psychology, most of …
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INVESTING, POLITICS, AND TIME: HOW TEMPORAL FRAMING CAN OVERCOME PARTISAN MOTIVATED REASONING TOWARDS RETIREMENT SAVING
Americans are not financially prepared for retirement and the World Economic Forum (2019) is forecasting the US retirement savings gap to grow consistently for the next three decades. Addressing this retirement savings gap will almost certainly require individuals to increase their retirement …
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Motivated Reasoning, Ambivalence, And The Local Economy: Asymmetric Biases In The Formation Of Economic Perceptions
Through motivated reasoning, citizens tend to process information in ways that confirm their prior beliefs. This motivation is seen perhaps most clearly in how voters view the economy -- citizens identifying with the incumbent party view the economy favorably, while those opposed to the incumbent …
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What's My Motivation: The Effect of Motivated Reasoning and Accountability on the Determination of Internal Control Effectiveness
… integrated audits, auditors are susceptible to motivated judgment biases that may negatively affect their judgment quality. In a 2012 report, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board found evidence of auditor judgment failures during their quality inspections of audit firms. In this …
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Determinants of Error Attribution in Accounting Estimates
… to biases resulting from directionally motivated reasoning? I hypothesize that directionally motivated reasoning moderates decision makers' misconceptions of the properties of bias and noise in the observed sequences of accounting estimate errors, such that potential stockholders are …
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The effects of using process accountability and outcome accountability on susceptibility to directional goals: an examination of management's memory in financial reporting
… process, with implications for the influence of motivated reasoning in their judgments and decisions. I review these implications in the context of managers’ memory for the source of information. Integrating psychology theory, I examine how the type of accountability (outcome or process) …
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Accuracy and Social Motivations Shape Judgements of (Mis)Information
… focus on social identity and politically motivated reasoning, arguing that people are motivated to believe and share identity-congruent news. Other theories suggest that belief in misinformation is not shaped by motivated reasoning, but is instead shaped by other factors, such as prior …
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DONT' BE FOOLED BY FAKE NEWS? MAPPING THE SOCIAL, COGNITIVE, AND POLITICAL MECHANISMS OF MISINFORMATION BELIEF.
… of misinformation beliefs: cognitive styles, motivated reasoning, anti-elitism, institutional trust, and social norms. The second contribution of this doctoral thesis is the inclusion of these latter three explanations (one of which - social norms - is also experimentally manipulated), as the …
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A Bayesian Network Model of Political Belief Polarisation
… that the dominant existing theory – identity-motivated reasoning – has important limitations. I then explain how Bayesian agents can polarise in response to common evidence and review existing models of Bayesian polarisation. I suggest a limitation of these models is that they don’t consider …
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Public Unreason: Essays on Political Disagreement
… two features of human psychology: tribalism and motivated reasoning.</p><p>It is often assumed that disagreements rooted in bias and irrationality can be ignored or idealized away by philosophers developing ideal theories, that is, theories that aim to sketch the normative outlines of an ideal …
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Converting the skeptic but losing the faithful: An experimental examination of expanding and auditing information in ESG reports
… impact processing of ESG reporting. Drawing on motivated reasoning, I report an experiment that tests predictions about how two prominent ESG reporting attributes interact with investor SRI affinity. First, companies can choose ESG reporting frameworks that either disclose only financially …
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How affect influences judgement processes
… the mood as information hypothesis and the motivated reasoning framework. The results suggest that both mood and desired outcome serve as items of information that combine with objective information to influence likelihood judgments. This explanation is further supported by the second study, …
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Why meaning matters for belief diffusion in social networks
… knowledge cumulate, and at its worst facilitates motivated reasoning and pseudoscience. Recent research in social contagion shows that the tendency to treat new information in light of what is already known creates interdependence in the diffusion patterns of simultaneously diffusing beliefs, and …
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Finding The Sweet Spot Of Cause-Related Marketing: Consumer Response To Campaign Tactics
… Theories related to ethical behavior, like motivated reasoning and defensive denial, are used to explain when and why consumers respond negatively to these effort demands. The first study finds that consumers rationalize not participating in CRM by devaluing the sponsored cause. The second …
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Come a Little Closer: Examining Spillover Priming Effects from a Network Perspective
… are discussed in terms of network theory and motivated reasoning among political partisans. More specifically, the results contribute to network theory as they provide a new definition of hub status. The results support previous political psychology research finding conservatives are more …
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Rethinking Thinking About Thinking: Against a Pedagogical Imperative to Cultivate Metacognitive Skills
… around the objective of such efforts, and <em>motivated reasoning </em>in defense of the desirable conclusion that educators can significantly reshape students’ minds and unlock their intellectual potential through simple pedagogical interventions.</p>
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Interactivity and authenticity in AI-augmented videos
… individuals employ visual, auditory and textual reasoning to differentiate between real and synthesized media objects. I also report findings that Biden voters show a shift towards motivated reasoning based discernment when the political content in a media object is visible in audio or text …
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