Hochintelligente Dummheit ist kein Widerspruch.
Sie entsteht, wenn Intelligenz nicht zur Wahrheitssuche, sondern zur Selbstverteidigung genutzt wird.

Bildung schützt nicht vor Irrtum.
Sie macht ihn oft nur eleganter, komplexer – und gefährlicher.

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The same reason people participate in other risky activities: they mistakenly believe bad things only happen to other people.

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Wir denken nicht, um die Wahrheit zu finden.
Wir denken, um uns dabei gut zu fühlen.
Motivated Reasoning erklärt, warum kluge Menschen brillant falsch liegen.
https://www.respektlose-ansichten.com/post/motivated-reasoning-denken-als-verteidigungsmechanismus
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Motivated Reasoning – Wenn Denken zur Selbstverteidigung wird

Motivated Reasoning – Wenn Denken zur Selbstverteidigung wirdWer glaubt, er denke, um die Wahrheit zu finden, überschätzt sich. Meist denken wir, um uns selbst zu schützen. Motivated Reasoning beschreibt genau diesen Mechanismus: Wir nutzen unsere kognitiven Fähigkeiten nicht primär zur Erkenntnis, sondern zur Rechtfertigung bereits bestehender Überzeugungen, Interessen und Identitäten. Der Verstand wird nicht zum Suchscheinwerfer, sondern zum Anwalt – mit Mandat, das eigene Weltbild zu verteidi

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“Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron filings.” — William Macneile Dixon, The Human Situation
#QOTD #WilliamMacneileDixon #Quote #Desires #Quotation #MotivatedReasoning

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“Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron filings.” — William Macneile Dixon, The Human Situation

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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.

Motivated reasoning alert: YOU are at risk!

There are so many ways bias goes under our radars and derails our judgment. Motivated reasoning and its tricky sidekick, confirmation bias,...

The Unintended Effects of Ethical Decision Aids in Organizations https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/5136031.pdf?abstractid=5136031&mirid=1
"Organizations frequently utilize Contemplation Questions in an attempt to foster ethical #decisionMaking and encourage employees to reflect on their actions. Presumably, they particularly target ’bad apples’—those (unknown) employees with a higher propensity for unethical behavior. However, our results indicate that CQs may inadvertently cause ’boomerang’ effects for this group. Individuals with lower #moral identities tend to use their interaction with CQs to justify their unethical preferences, increasing the likelihood of them acting unethically. While some CQs have positive effects on individuals with high moral identities, overall, the unintended consequences seem to be more significant. This aligns with the concept of motivated moral reasoning, where individuals rationalize their initial moral choices."
#ExperimentalEcon #ethics #motivatedReasoning
The Unintended Effects of Ethical Decision Aids in Organizations

Unethical behavior, deception, and fraud are major concerns in corporate governance. This paper examines the effectiveness of contemplation questions (CQs) as d