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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Main Authors: Peter Beattie, Danielle Snider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2019-03-01
Series:Journal of Social and Political Psychology
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Online Access:http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/955