Sentence examples for post hoc rationalization from inspiring English sources

Old-school economists might still hang on to the notion that we are all rational decision makers, but the field of behavioral economics has demonstrated that there are bounds to the rationality of economic agents, and that much of our rationality is really post hoc rationalization.

On this view, our giving of reasons for our moral beliefs in such cases is interpreted as mere post hoc rationalization.

They are not wrong when they emphasize the significance of marriage in providing stability for a child -- but their focus on specific sex acts as the differentiating principle between opposite-sex and same-sex couples reeks of post hoc rationalization.

Haidt in particular has argued for a "social intuitionist" model according to which deliberation and reasoning are almost always post hoc rationalizations of System 1 cognition, affect, and behavior.

The post hoc rationalizations offered always made things worse.

Thus the arguments analyzed by Kohlberg and other rationalist psychologists could be considered post hoc rationalizations of intuitive decisions; moral reasoning may be less relevant to moral action than Kohlberg's theory suggests.

Arguments include that it emphasizes justice to the exclusion of other moral values, such as caring; that there is such an overlap between stages that they should more properly be regarded as separate domains; or that evaluations of the reasons for moral choices are mostly post hoc rationalizations (by both decision makers and psychologists studying them) of essentially intuitive decisions.

[For a mathematical derivation of how ignoring variability leads to underestimation of the population mean, see pp. 168 169 of NRC (2009).] The U.S. EPA's instinct has instead been to offer post hoc rationalizations for ignoring variation in cancer susceptibility; none holds up to scrutiny.

"This is despicable, post-hoc rationalization".

Often "reasoning" really seems to be post-hoc rationalization: we tend to accept that which confirms what we already believe (psychologists call this confirmation bias).

Most importantly, since it is a cross-sectional study, there is a possibility of under reporting and post-hoc rationalization in responding to pregnancy intention questions.