(Ideo)Logical Reasoning: Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning

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Anup Gampa received his PhD from University of Virginia in 2018. Gampa is a Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai.

Sean P. Wojcik received his PhD from University of California, Irvine in 2015. Wojcik has since worked in data science positions at Upworthy and Axios.

Matt Motyl received his PhD from University of Virginia in 2014. Motyl is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Executive Director of Civil Politics, and the Research Director of OpenMind. He is on sabbatical at New York University's Stern School of Business during the 2018–2019 Academic Year.

Brian A. Nosek received his PhD from Yale University in 2002. Nosek is a Professor of Psychology at University of Virginia and Executive Director at the Center for Open Science.

Peter H. Ditto received his PhD from Princeton University in 1986. Ditto is a Professor of Psychological Science at University of California, Irvine.

SenorBeef on April 15th, 2019 at 03:00 UTC »

You should be most skeptical about things that seem to confirm your worldview, not least. Otherwise you shape your perception of the world to what you want it to be, not what it is.

But almost no one seems to understand or practice this.

So much of the design of science is basically a way of institutionalize this idea, because that's what you need to arrive at the truth.

Frocker34 on April 15th, 2019 at 01:45 UTC »

For clarity, confirmation bias is finding information you agree with. Cognitive bias is having the inability to overcome current beliefs when new information is available.

This is a combination of those ideas, plus a bit of Dunning-Kruger and other factors that influence human thought.

brvopls on April 15th, 2019 at 01:07 UTC »

So like personal confirmation bias?