Motivated cognition

An academic/technical term for various mental processes that lead to desired conclusions regardless of the veracity of those conclusions.

Blog 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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