The Case for Motivated Reasoning

Kunda, Z. (1990). The Case for Motivated Reasoning. Psychological Bulletin, 108(3), 480-498.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1990

DOI

10.1037/0033-2909.108.3.480

Link

https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.108.3.480

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psychology, psychology_cognitive_science

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Primes

• Confirmation Bias
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    This sourceEstablishes that the motivation to reach a desired conclusion biases the cognitive processes of accessing, constructing, and evaluating beliefs.

• Motivated Reasoning
  • Motivated reasoning occurs when a non-epistemic goal or preferred conclusion steers which evidence is sought, admitted, interpreted, weighted, remembered, or allowed to update belief.

    This sourceEstablishes that directional goals steer which evidence is accessed and how it is evaluated, within the limits of plausible justification, and unifies the separately named biased-processing effects under one mechanism.

• Wishful thinking
  • Its autonomous core is the direct desire-to-belief directional bias, narrower than motivated reasoning generally and distinct from a favorable forecast that is adequately supported by evidence.

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