Hmmmm. Interesting. (I am afraid I couldn't see the article you linked to)
I find this a still minor problem in me nowadays when dealing with my ex. I believe that my "motivated reasoning" draws negative conclusions which are consistent with the facts. However it is possible/likely that my reasoning is directed down that route because I have the motivation to see her as an evil bitch.
All I can do is to question each step of my reasoning, remember that my memory is an active filter, and remember that I don't have all the facts.
But the aim from this process is not to arrive at the *correct* conclusions, but merely less painful ones.
In order to combat bias in my reasoning all I can do is to seek out more evidence - hopefully without that process being biased too much as well.
So for instance in the case of my ex, I might ask her what she was trying to do in some situation to see whether my conclusions were correct. However she has refused to discuss absolutely anything that happened so I am left with my own - possibly faulty - possibly motivated - reasoning/memory/perception.
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Date: 2010-01-24 09:05 pm (UTC)I find this a still minor problem in me nowadays when dealing with my ex. I believe that my "motivated reasoning" draws negative conclusions which are consistent with the facts. However it is possible/likely that my reasoning is directed down that route because I have the motivation to see her as an evil bitch.
All I can do is to question each step of my reasoning, remember that my memory is an active filter, and remember that I don't have all the facts.
But the aim from this process is not to arrive at the *correct* conclusions, but merely less painful ones.
In order to combat bias in my reasoning all I can do is to seek out more evidence - hopefully without that process being biased too much as well.
So for instance in the case of my ex, I might ask her what she was trying to do in some situation to see whether my conclusions were correct. However she has refused to discuss absolutely anything that happened so I am left with my own - possibly faulty - possibly motivated - reasoning/memory/perception.
(Hope that was ok)