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Motivated Reasoning is a label for various mental processes that lead to desired conclusions regardless of the veracity of those conclusions.

Related: Confirmation Bias, Rationalization, Self-deception 

Notable Posts

  • Semantic Stopsigns
  • Explain/Worship/Ignore?
  • Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points
  • Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation
  • The Bottom Line

See also

  • Rationalization
  • Motivated skepticism
  • Filtered evidence
  • Positive bias
  • Ugh field
Posts tagged Motivated Reasoning
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35Forcing yourself to keep your identity small is self-harm
Gordon Seidoh Worley
2y
9
3
80The Proper Use of Doubt
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
33
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171Belief in Belief
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
176
2
150Integrity and accountability are core parts of rationality
habryka
4y
66
2
132Is That Your True Rejection?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
100
2
116Belief as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
104
2
75Craving, suffering, and predictive processing (three characteristics series)
Kaj_Sotala
3y
48
2
65Beliefs as emotional strategies
Kaj_Sotala
2y
4
2
61Fake Optimization Criteria
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
21
2
60Strategic ignorance and plausible deniability
Kaj_Sotala
12y
59
2
55Multiple Factor Explanations Should Not Appear One-Sided
Stefan_Schubert
9y
32
2
53The horror of what must, yet cannot, be true
Kaj_Sotala
1y
18
2
50"You can't possibly succeed without [My Pet Issue]"
Raemon
3y
14
2
39Sunk Cost Fallacy
Z_M_Davis
14y
44
2
24LINK: Study demonstrates politically motivated innumeracy
Alejandro1
10y
3
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