The case for motivated reasoning.
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Summary
It is proposed that motivation may affect reasoning through reliance on a biased set of cognitive processes--that is, strategies for accessing, constructing, and evaluating beliefs--that are considered most likely to yield the desired conclusion.
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- review
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- 1990-11-01
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- 8,151
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Keywords
Variety (cybernetics), Construct (python library), Set (abstract data type), Affect (linguistics), Cognition
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