Motivated Numeracy : The Role of Stimulus Ambiguity

• People display motivational biases when interpreting numerical information on politically polarized topics. We investigated how disambiguating informationof a numerical problem affected biased reasoning. Results showed that participants’ initial conclusions were biased in line with their ideology, but that biases dropped significantly with the simplified version of the problem.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Psychology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

motivational bias

numerical information

political

ideology

psykologi

Psychology

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