Techdirt [Unofficial]The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Ruling Is Results-Driven Cynicism, Not Law
Yahooey“Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations.” — Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories
#BOTD #GaryTaubes #QOTD #Quotation #Quote #Theories #MotivatedReasoning
https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/quote-of-the-day-5487/
Dennis Alexis Valin DittrichChoice 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
#BoundedRationality
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
#BoundedRationality
Psychotherapy Commission ACPEThe article explores how cognitive dissonance helps explain why supporters of Donald Trump remain loyal despite allegations of misconduct, by showing how beliefs are justified or altered to reduce psychological discomfort. It reports multiple studies indicating that supporters commonly deny accusations, emphasize policies, or point to similar behavior by others to maintain support.
The piece is of interest to psychology readers because it illustrates real-world mechanisms of cognitive dissonance, belief revision, and motivated reasoning in political contexts, highlighting how emotions interact with information processing.
Article Title: Cognitive dissonance helps explain why Trump supporters remain loyal, new research suggests
Link to PsyPost Article: https://www.psypost dot org/cognitive-dissonance-helps-explain-why-trump-supporters-remain-loyal-new-research-suggests/
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#cognition #cognitive-dissonance #politicalpsychology #beliefrevision #motivatedreasoning
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The same reason people participate in other risky activities: they mistakenly believe bad things only happen to other people.
🦉Nýktiméni ❌👑Feynman's Last Warning: “Cargo Cult Science”
#RichardFeynman #Science #Research #Culture #CargoCultScience #MotivatedReasoning #HOTS #CriticalThinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtR_ECkqblg
#RichardFeynman #Science #Research #Culture #CargoCultScience #MotivatedReasoning #HOTS #CriticalThinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtR_ECkqblg
Feynman's Last Warning: Why You Still Don't Understand Anything (Cargo Cult Science)
“Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron filings.” — William Macneile Dixon, The Human Situation
#QOTD #WilliamMacneileDixon #Quote #Desires #Quotation #MotivatedReasoning
https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/quote-of-the-day-5368/
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.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.
Coach Sankhavaram ®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.
LupposofiHilda 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
