Hutmacher, Fabian and Reichardt, Regina and Altenmüller, Marlene S. (2025) Known Unknowns in Motivated Reasoning: A Closer Look at Three Open Questions. COLLABRA-PSYCHOLOGY, 11 (1): 147252. ISSN 2474-7394,
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Motivated reasoning denotes the phenomenon that individuals are more likely to arrive at conclusions that they want to arrive at. Properly understanding this phenomenon requires at least three things: first, to pin down the preconditions of motivated reasoning; second, to identify the cognitive processes that lead to biased judgments; and third, to identify whether a measured bias is the result of motivated reasoning or other processes. Although motivated reasoning has received continued attention from the research community over the last decades, there are considerable conceptual ambiguities regarding these three aspects. By focusing on key publications that have had a formative effect on the development of the field as well as recent publications that reflect the state-of-the-art, the present paper provides a concise and selective overview of research on motivated reasoning, discusses existing conceptual ambiguities, and derives recommendations for future research.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CULTURAL COGNITION; SCIENCE LITERACY; BELIEFS; BIAS; OPINION; MODEL; POLARIZATION; PREFERENCES; ATTRIBUTION; SKEPTICISM; motivated reasoning; selective retrieval; selective exposure; confirmation bias; disconfirmation bias; prior beliefs; rationality |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 06 May 2026 06:36 |
| Last Modified: | 06 May 2026 06:36 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/66742 |
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