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Motivated Reasoning is the tendency to interpret evidence for the hypothesis that you would prefer was true more favorably than evidence for alternate hypotheses.

See also: Confirmation Bias, Rationalization.

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93Belief in Belief
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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82Is That Your True Rejection?
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64Belief as Attire
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56Craving, suffering, and predictive processing (three characteristics series)
Kaj_Sotala
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53"You can't possibly succeed without [My Pet Issue]"
Raemon
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43Strategic ignorance and plausible deniability
Kaj_Sotala
9y
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37Sunk Cost Fallacy
Z_M_Davis
11y
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34Multiple Factor Explanations Should Not Appear One-Sided
Stefan_Schubert
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18A Process for Dealing with Motivated Reasoning
Ikaxas
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16Immodesty, Deceit and Motivated Reasoning
whpearson
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14[Link] Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study[anonymous]8y
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12LINK: Study demonstrates politically motivated innumeracy
Alejandro1
7y
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9Social Impact, Effective Altruism, and Motivated Cognition
JonahS
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136Integrity and accountability are core parts of rationality
habryka
1y
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104Undiscriminating Skepticism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
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