Exhibit 1194 ยท Journal article
The case for motivated reasoning
There is considerable evidence that people are more likely to arrive at conclusions that they want to arrive at, but their ability to do so is constrained by their ability to construct seemingly reasonable justifications for these conclusions.
Review proposing that motives affect reasoning by biasing which beliefs and strategies a person accesses, constructs and evaluates. Separates accuracy goals from directional goals and reviews the evidence for each. The central constraint is that people reach desired conclusions only when they can build a justification an observer would find reasonable.
- Source
- Ziva Kunda, Psychological Bulletin 108(3): 480-498
- Date
- 1990
- Quoted from
- Abstract, p. 480
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.108.3.480
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Read in the full text of the open copy at fbaum.unc.edu (third-party PDF of the APA article). The DOI is the stable citation.