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Biased Reasoning, Argument Analysis, and the Principle of Charity

A significant proportion of human reasoning is systematically biased, a fact that sits uneasily with argumentation theory’s methodological commitment to the principle of charity. Traditionally, the principle requires arguments to be reconstructed as plausibly and rationally as possible, which conflicts with the defin...

Nastasia Mueller, David Löwenstein, G. Vosgerau · 0 citations
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Inducing Motivated Reasoning: Confirmation Bias and Attitude Polarization Among Liberals and Conservatives

What types of motives trigger politically motivated reasoning? In two large-scale experiments (total N = 5,403) involving four contentious political issues, we investigated two psychological mechanisms that could trigger biased reasoning and attitude polarization: (1) epistemic motives to reduce uncertainty, manipu...

Davide Morisi, Jakob Bøggild Johannsen, John T. Jost · 0 citations
Open access Sep 2026

The Ideological Boundary of Belief Change

This article investigates the relationship between political ideology and the extent to which individuals revise their beliefs when confronted with counter‐attitudinal information. Across two preregistered experiments conducted with demographically quota‐matched Polish samples (total N  = 1096), we assessed belie...

Małgorzata Kossowska, G. Czarnek, Anna Knorr et al. · 0 citations
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Simple logic warnings improve climate argument evaluation across beliefs and partisanship

Collective climate action requires shared beliefs aligned with scientific consensus, yet fallacious information leads people to misjudge arguments. The mechanisms behind these failures remain unclear. Here we isolate the independent effects of partisan identity, prior beliefs and cognitive limits on argument-quality de...

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Prototypes of Political Ignorance

Blake Roeber’s Political Humility is a wonderful piece of work; it’s clear and accessible enough that I’d expect a general educated audience with no philosophical background to profitably read all but the last two chapters (which get more into the epistemological weeds than the earlier parts of the book), while sti...

Daniel Greco · 0 citations
Open access Aug 2026

Misused linguistic evidence in a study of media bias

This paper examines the methodological challenges of using the grammatical contrast between active and passive clauses as a proxy for ideological bias in computational discourse analysis. Paying particular attention to a recent analysis of New York Times coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we note the con...

G. Pullum, Brett Reynolds · 0 citations

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