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