Wishful Thinking: Belief, Desire, and the Motivated Evaluation of Scientific Evidence

Eric Luis Uhlmann, Anthony Bastardi and Lee Ross
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Eric Luis Uhlmann: GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The article discusses a study which examined whether desire would trump beliefs based on facts when participants were asked if they believe home care is superior to day care. It also examind whether would-be-parents would change their initial beliefs to conform to their plans and desires. The study concluded that evaluations of purported scientific evidence were shaped more by what would-be-parents desired to be true than by what they had initially believed to be true.

Keywords: RESEARCH; HOME care services; CHILD care services; PSYCHOLOGY; DESIRE; BELIEF & doubt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06
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Published in Psychological Science, 2011, 22 (6), pp.731-732. ⟨10.1177/0956797611406447⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/0956797611406447

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