ABSTRACT

Extensive research in the social sciences has shown that people tend to engage in motivated reasoning when processing information. However, one area of inquiry that has been lacking is examining the effectiveness of different strategies that aim to decrease motivated reasoning. In this paper, we examine three strategies that have been shown to decrease motivated reasoning: accuracy motivation, the common ingroup identity model, and self-affirmation. We begin by replicating previous findings examining the effectiveness of each of these strategies in reducing motivated reasoning. We then extend this line of inquiry by comparing the effects of these three strategies against one another to determine if one of them is more effective at reducing motivated reasoning. To test our hypotheses, we used an experimental design and recruited participants from Prolific.

摘要

社会科学研究的广泛研究表明，人们在处理信息时倾向于进行动机推理。然而，一直缺乏的一个研究领域是检查旨在减少动机推理的不同策略的有效性。在本文中，我们研究了三种已被证明可以减少动机推理的策略：准确性动机、共同的内群体身份模型和自我肯定。我们首先重复之前的研究结果，检查这些策略在减少动机推理方面的有效性。然后，我们通过比较这三种策略的效果来扩展这一研究方向，以确定其中一种策略是否更有效地减少动机推理。为了检验我们的假设，