Motivated Reasoning
Partner rotation or extended rotations? The effect of confirmation bias and motivated reasoning bias on objectivity and independence: A framework
... The proposed model utilizes existing four-dimensional audit rotation arrangements that have been traditionally practiced in the U.S. Our study also addresses the ever-present issues of auditors’ objectivity and ...
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Ferguson v. City of Charleston Redux: Motivated Reasoning and Coercive Interventions in Pregnancy
... of motivated reasoning by clinicians, members of the judiciary, and ill- informed legislators who rely on personal experience and anecdote rather than evidence to fashion ...
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“We wanted a forever family”: Altruistic, individualistic, and motivated reasoning motivations for adoption among LGBTQ individuals
... negatively influence their experience of adopting, although they were evenly split regarding the expectation of whether they would be matched with a harder-to-place child. To explore LGBTQ parents’ motivations for ...
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Motivated reasoning, political sophistication, and associations between President Obama and Islam
... simply motivated reasoners who take the opportunity to express perceived negativity about the President? And second, how does political sophistication affect beliefs about Obama, given that it should both increase ...
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Modeling of Sic Power Semiconductor Devices For Switching Converter Applications
... the motivated reasoning paradigm is that when “top-down” motivated reasoning occurs, it is not necessarily a conscious decision, which is a different assumption from the attitudinal model, ...
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The motivated use of moral principles
... of motivated moral reasoning processes predicted by the social intuitionist model (Haidt, ...the motivated reasoning literature to manipulate partici- pants’ preferred moral conclusions, and ...
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Incomplete Information Choice on Incumbents, Cognitive Ability and Personality
... in motivated reasoning [2] [3] in order to process missing information, preferentially in a confirmatory way ...a motivated reasoning to reinforce it, reducing the likelihood of abandon- ing ...
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Cognitively Motivated Distributional Representations of Meaning
... Adopting the standpoint of (Potamianos, 2014) we ar- gue that the aforementioned tasks should be driven by the fundamental properties of the human cognitive sys- tem. Indeed, empirical evidence provided by cognitive ...
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Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition
... the motivated desire to reduce uncertainty (Hogg & Mullin, 1999), and the belief in a just world has been linked to epistemic needs to increase predic- tion and control and to existential needs to maintain ...
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On Metaheuristic Optimization Motivated by the Immune System
... jective whose solution is a Pareto optimal point for the original MOP. Most algorithms have been developed in the linear framework (i.e. linear objectives and linear constraints), but the techniques described below are ...
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Creativity support in games for motivated learning
... A motivated learner has a willingness to engage in a learning task, and an intrinsic motivation to continue ...and motivated learning rather than entertainment ...
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Toward a physically-motivated damping model
... The way of modeling the damping phenomenon in nonlinear time history analyses is still an opened question and remains a motivating challenge in the scientific community. The well-known approach lies in considering ...
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Language-Motivated Approaches to Action Recognition
... Motivated by the successes of this modeling technique in solving general high-level problems, we define an activity as a sequence of contiguous sub-actions, where the sub-action is a discrete unit that can be ...
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Racially motivated offending and targeted interventions
... is largely informative, providing statistics and guidance for teachers and others, and giving advice on equal opportunities policies. Addressing each type of discrimination in turn, the video asks ‘how much’, ‘why’ and ...
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A physically motivated quantization of the electromagnetic field
... The physically motivated fi eld quantization scheme which we present here has several advantages. For example, it does not invoke the solutions of Maxwell’s equations in a speci fi c gauge and there is no need to ...
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Cognitively Motivated Features for Readability Assessment
... 6 A Readability Assessment Tool After testing the significance of features using paired corpora, we used linear regression and our graded corpus Weekly Reader to build a reada- bility as[r] ...
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Self-Motivated Planning in Autonomous Agents
... symbolic reasoning techniques such as planning, with a behavour-based or reactive execution control system, where the resulting agent requires only an abstract symbolic representation of the envi ronment ...
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Thanks for Nothing? Not-for-Profits and Motivated Agents
... Intuitively, both for-pro…ts and not-for-pro…ts charge the worker for her participation in the industry. The worker is willing to pay because unem- ployment would exclude her from intrinsic bene…ts derived from the ...
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When Learning English is Compulsory at School:
... The ought-to L2 self refers to “the attributes that one believes one ought to possess” (Dörnyei, 2005, p.105). This less internalized and more extrinsic aspect of the L2 self, which corresponds to Higgins’ (1987) ought ...
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A Framework for Medical Diagnosis using Hybrid Reasoning
... [2] Nguyen Hoang Phuong, Nadipuriun R. Prasad, Dang Huu Hung, Jeffery T. Drake “Approach to Combining Case-based Reasoning with Rule-based Reasoning for Lung Disease Diagnosis” Proc. In IFSA World Congress ...
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