Reconciling scientific and commonsense values to improve reasoning

People espouse a ‘lay ethics of belief’ that defines standards for how beliefs should be evaluated and formed. People vary in the extent to which they endorse scientific norms of reasoning, such as evidentialism and impartiality, in their own norms of belief. In some cases, people sanction motivated or biased thinking. Variation in endorsement of scientific norms predicts belief accuracy, suggesting that interventions that target norms could...