People deploy selective perception and motivated reasoning routinely when faced with evidence

Evidence

To be clear, I am not suggesting that selective perception, confirmation bias, and motivated reasoning - the left-hand side of my post-truth danger spectrum - aren’t commonplace. People can do at least three things in response to evidence: (1) update their beliefs in the direction of facts and evidence (3) update their beliefs in the opposite direction away from the evidence. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 144

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: People often distort evidence to fit preexisting worldviews rather than updating beliefs — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 108; Selective evidence use lets people maintain the illusion of being objective while holding prejudice — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2095; People discount their own sense evidence to conform to group consensus — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 89 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Directionally motivated reasoning makes people reject disconfirming evidence and seek explanations for it. #expands (0.88) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 166
• Motivational reasoning biases perception without requiring conscious wishful thinking #expands (0.85)
• Selective evidence use lets people maintain the illusion of being objective while holding prejudice #expands (0.82) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2095
• People often resist or reverse belief updating rather than tracking evidence #expands (0.80) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 104
• Stereotypes act as hypotheses that bias evidence gathering toward confirmation #expands (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1174
• Initial stereotypes bias perception of identical evidence to confirm themselves #expands (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1175
• People preferentially seek confirming evidence and avoid testing their own hypotheses. #expands (0.80) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 93
• People unconsciously avoid confronting evidence that contradicts their sense of safety #expands (0.78) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 229
• Motivated reasoning is the motive while confirmation bias is the mechanism #expands (0.78) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 100
• Repeated stereotypes create interpretive frames that filter out disconfirming evidence #expands (0.77) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 94
• People discount their own sense evidence to conform to group consensus #expands (0.75) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 89
• Confirmation-seeking bias appears across many domains, not just artificial laboratory tasks. #expands (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 634
• Disagreement over evidence can stem from accuracy motives or identity motives #qualifies (0.72) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 140