Sentence examples for biased belief from inspiring English sources

(For a clear and compact discussion concerning self-deception, "motivationally biased belief," and "motivated irrationality" more generally, see, for example, Mele 2004).

A number of philosophers have moved away from modeling self-deception on intentional interpersonal deception, opting instead to treat it as a species of motivationally biased belief.

Alternatively, perhaps reviewers share a biased belief that the research environment and capacity at minority institutions is inferior to those at major research institutes.

A study by Aboud and Anna Beth Doyle took 9-to-11-year-old children who held prejudiced attitudes toward ethnic minorities and placed them with other 9 to 11 year olds who held less biased beliefs.

We need to create and foster new experiences that can override our biased beliefs in order to build an unconscious that functions from and seeks to reinforce mores of equality and fairness.

Another finding regarding heterogeneity and biases in household inflation expectation is that individuals report biased beliefs on inflation in part because they use their price memories or other private information rather than inflation statistics.

Spinnewijn (2009) analyzes the optimal design of insurance contracts – like unemployment insurance schemes – when agents have biased beliefs about the impact of their effort (job search) in avoiding future losses (continued unemployment).

Potential behavioral explanations include inattentiveness and salience, myopia and short sightedness, bounded rationality and heuristic decision-making, prospect theory and reference-point phenomena, and systematically biased beliefs.

However, it is unknown how neuromodulatory systems impact on the generation of optimistically biased beliefs.

Our store, just outside of the metropolis of Phoenix, one of the 1,793 Target stores across the United States, becomes the recipient of dozens of infuriated calls, guests insistent on sharing their biased beliefs.

It is the relative subjective costs of falsely believing p and ~p that explains why desire or other motivation biases belief in some circumstances and not others.