#motivated reasoning

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"When arguments and evidence keep changing but the answer is invariant, that's a really strong indicator of motivated belief, where the evidence follows from the answer rather than the answer coming from the evidence."

-- Valerie Tarico

[dreamer434]

“Surely. As E. coli took refuge in our innards. Doubtless long ago the ancestors of E. coli killed a great many of our ancestors before eventually becoming the beneficial symbionts they are now, helping us digest our food.

“The same applies to viruses, I’d wager. Heritable cancers and rheumatoid arthritis are just temporary awkwardnesses. Eventually, those genes will be comfortably incorporated. They’ll be part of the genetic diversity that prepares us to meet challenges ahead.

“Why, I’d wager a large portion of our present genes came about in such a way, entering our cells first as invaders . . .”

David Brin from The Giving Plague

[zibethrose]

Know that self-love is expressed when you address old wounds and self-judgment in order to gain clarity and healing by looking at the situation from a soul perspective. Deal with challenges in a kind and understanding way to bring an end to the pain. When you feed your grudge or grievance, refusing to forgive, it hurts only you. Don't lead with your shadow side; it's unbalanced, causing you to play mind games and be manipulative. Know better, do better.-ZibethRose

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[calicojack1718]

Their Reasoning Motivated by Risk Aversion and Proportionality Bias, SCOTUS Will Let Trump Stay On The Ballot

The only mystery left in the impending 7-2, 8-1, 9-0 SCOTUS vote to allow Trump ballot access is what kind of twisted reasoning are they going to use. Here's the psychological explanation as to why even the liberal justices are going allow it.

SUMMARY: SCOTUS heard oral arguments in Trump v Colorado concerning disqualifying him as a presidential candidate in the state. There are three key psychological forces influencing the justices: proportionality bias, risk aversion, and motivated reasoning. The political alignments of the justices are considered in the analysis, but in the end, no matter how you slice it, the case is always…

[mde-creative-video]

People can deceive themselves

[usunezukoinezu]

''As it turns out, the brain is a decent scientist but an absolutely outstanding lawyer. The result is that in the struggle to fashion a coherent, convincing view of ourselves and the rest of the world, it is the impassioned advocate that usually wins over the truth seeker. ...Visual perception, memory, and even emotion are all constructs, made of a mix of raw, incomplete, and sometimes conflicting data. We use the same kind of creative process to generate our self-image. When we paint our picture of self, our attorney-like unconscious blends fact and illusion, exaggerating our strengths, minimizing our weaknesses, creating a virtually Picassoesque series of distortions in which some parts have been blown up to enormous size (the parts we like) and others shrunk to near invisibility. The rational scientists of our conscious minds then innocently admire the self-portrait, believing it to be a work of photographic accuracy.''

- Leonard Mlodinow, Subliminal

[brieandbrioche]

the #1 thing stopping you from doing that is yourself, stop being an asshole to yourself and instead be a bitch, just do it because if you don’t do it you can’t complain about it

the world may be a bitch so be bitchier than the world

[sweetestsugarxoxo]

The lies your brain makes up to justify you eating are crazy...

[redshift-13]

Wall to wall ignorance and conspiracism; an almost total obliviousness about the meaning of terms like socialism and communism; a profound inability to make meaningful sense of almost any issue or get even basic facts correct.

No gotcha questions à la The Good Liars, just CPAC attendees being given an opportunity to speak.

[arecalezz-reblogs]

She’s so crazzzzzzzy! Love her!!!

[eluminium]

I love how BigBs episode 1 of secret life be like Become a mole Lie Youtube Apology Video Lie some more Drive your infidelity partner from another life mad because you can GASLIGHTING GASLIGHTING GASLIGHTING GASLIGHTING GASLIGHTING GASLIGHTING GASLIGHTING GASLIGHTING Implied homosexual activities with the guy your infidelity partner from another life cheated on Give heart to Skizz because like. Skizz <3 Make a hotel in your mole hole End episode.

[journey-to-the-attic]

one thing about ik is that she will always reach out

[beaulesbian]

Luffy & Zoro + text posts [1/?]

[gothhabiba]

Another bewildering assertion I've seen floating around is that the United States of America deliberately destabilises West Asia and North Africa, murders millions of civilians, destroys towns and cities, arms militias &c. because of Islamophobia. I assure you that this is not true and that no one who is serious about understanding geopolitics or Islamophobia has this analysis. Islamophobia may have early modern or pre-modern instantiations, but in its current context it is very much a result of and a rhetorical and social justification for the geopolitical, economic, resource-driven exigencies of imperial capitalism. You're looking at a cart and insisting that it is pulling a horse around

[mochiiniko]

feels like youre running out of holy places

took one look at this scene and immediately started drawing </3 anyways episode 7 :(

[scruncheduppaper]

hey guys ive been getting into signalis recently and uhhhhh im normal abt this game

closeups

okay back to my hole now