The 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

“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/

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.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.20020

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.

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

Teilt/boostet lieber weniger, bevor ihr Falschinformationen verbreitet. Seid kritischer.

Grummel.

Dazu kommt übrigens noch, dass die ganze Geschichte deutlich sexistisch ist.

#Falschinformationen
#MotivatedReasoning
#ConfirmationBias

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/nov/08/threads-posts/dont-fall-for-it-claim-that-stephen-king-was-banne/

#StevenKing #Musk #FirstLady #Sexismus