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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
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32Forcing yourself to keep your identity small is self-harm
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142Belief in Belief
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141Integrity and accountability are core parts of rationality
habryka
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105Is That Your True Rejection?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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93Belief as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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71Craving, suffering, and predictive processing (three characteristics series)
Kaj_Sotala
2y
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64Beliefs as emotional strategies
Kaj_Sotala
1y
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60Strategic ignorance and plausible deniability
Kaj_Sotala
11y
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56Fake Optimization Criteria
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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50"You can't possibly succeed without [My Pet Issue]"
Raemon
3y
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49Multiple Factor Explanations Should Not Appear One-Sided
Stefan_Schubert
8y
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44The horror of what must, yet cannot, be true
Kaj_Sotala
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39Sunk Cost Fallacy
Z_M_Davis
13y
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24LINK: Study demonstrates politically motivated innumeracy
Alejandro1
9y
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