Knowledge in International Relations: Susceptibilities to Motivated Reasoning Among Experts and Non-Experts
Motivated reasoning as a pervasive feature of human psychology poses challenges to the ideal of liberal democratic government, which relies on citizens’ rationality. Motivated reasoning is at least partially caused by a biased store of knowledge, a partial set of accumulated information that skews r...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology
2019-03-01
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Series: | Journal of Social and Political Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/955 |