Psychologists: This is a case where "motivated reasoning" goes opposite to what "want to be true": Liberals believe HIGHER frequency of rapehttps://twitter.com/chsommers/status/907463974270226432 …
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman
The progressive belief in higher rape numbers is seen as instrumental in reducing rape incidence, and thus seen as desirable.
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Replying to @Plinz
Exactly. Which is trivers and von hippel's story. And contradicts the standard story for motivated reasoning.
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman
Ah! I thought that is the standard explanation since it seemed obvious
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Replying to @Plinz
Hmm, I think the social psych story is also fairly intuitive. We believe the things we want to be true. Intuitive. Just wrong.
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman
Yes, we want useful beliefs to be true, but that does not mean we like the world we believe in.
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