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Most of the time jumping to conclusions is harmless. Even if judgments based on limited reasoning and quick thinking are wrong, the consequences are rarely dire. But it is a problem when jumping to ...

In the past, I wrote about motivated reasoning as arising in situations where goals or values conflict. To some extent, most reasoning is motivated. We have goals we try to achieve and values that ...