How to pronounce “motivated reasoning” in English

So motivated reasoning is a larger problem than confirmation bias.

This motivated reasoning was illustrated nicely in a study in Texas.

And that's where we worried directionally motivated reasoning would get in the way.

They are: We are all prone to motivated reasoning and the confirmation bias, and we're all prone to tribalism, and black-and-white thinking.

The second problem is what's called directionally motivated reasoning.

And people can still engage in selective exposure and directionally motivated reasoning, too.

So an example that I talk about in my book is something called motivated reasoning.

in your financial interest to be objective here and to ignore any possible motivated reasoning that you had when you were digesting the data."

Bayesian reasoning, cognitive biases, motivated reasoning-- all of the elements are in play.

And you can see how you can use that in order to accomplish the goals in motivated reasoning.

So I think that a lot of times what we sort of think-- and this is where we understand this, the motivated reasoning

So for both of those reasons, trying to change the extent to which people engage in selective exposure and directionally motivated reasoning is going to be very difficult.

Now, to the extent that those people are highly partisan, highly political people, directionally motivated reasoning would suggest that they're

One of the things your mind does when it gives you these over inflated views of yourself is it changes the way you treat incoming data; this is called motivated reasoning.