Motivated Reasoning and Performance on the was on Selection Task

By E. Dawson, Thomas Gilovich, D. Regan. 2002

248 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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In Applied Psychology

1. Paul Slovic
2. Ellen Peters
3. Dan Kahan
4. Hanspeter Pfister
5. Gisela Böhm
6. Andrew W. Lo
7. T. Terpstra
8. Elke U. Weber

In General Decision Sciences

1. Paul Slovic
2. John A. List
3. Ellen Peters
4. Dan Kahan
5. E. Dawson
6. Daniel John Zizzo
7. Jayson L. Lusk
8. Fredrik Carlsson

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Paul Slovic
2. Ellen Peters
3. Dan Kahan
4. E. Dawson
5. John A. List
6. Gordon Pennycook
7. S. van der Linden
8. David G. Rand

Citations in the corpus

• One swallow doesn’t make a summer: new evidence on anchoring effects (2014, background): “(2011) emphasizes, there is by now a large literature that shows the existence of selfserving biases in interpreting ambiguous evidence and reaching defensible conclusions that satisfy the research objectives (Babcock and Loewenstein, 1997; Dawson et al., 2002).”
• Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government (2017, background): “…by studies showing that an existing position on a contested nonpolitical issue (Dawson & Gilovich, 2000), aversion to threatening information (Dawson et al., 2002), and prior beliefs (Stanovich & West, 1998) can all magnify the sorts of reasoning errors that are frequently encountered in…”