motivated reasoning

基本解释

The sort of faulty thinking called motivated reasoning also impedes our search for truth but advances arguments.
有一种叫动机性推理的非理性思考同样阻碍着我们寻求真理，但是却促进了争辩。
The second change, motivated reasoning, is self-justification at its purest. We change our cognitions or even create new ones to allow ourselves to do what we want to do.
第二个变化是理性的说服自己，：人们为了达到自己想做的事会改变认识甚至创造出新的想法。
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Geoffrey Cohen, a professor of psychology at Stanford, has shown how motivated reasoning can drive even the opinions of engaged partisans.
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His mathematical reasoning now in high gear, no doubt nudged along by very motivated reasoning elsewhere in his brain, Gould soon convinced himself he would be a long-term survivor, a conclusion that would prove to be accurate.
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Their reasoning was motivated by the directives of Congress on maintaining reliable incentives for the invention of new and useful technologies.
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