Motivated Reasoning in an Explore‐Exploit Task
Abstract
The current research investigates how prior preferences affect causal learning. Participants were tasked with repeatedly choosing policies (e.g., increase vs. decrease border security funding) in order to maximize the economic output of an imaginary country and inferred the influence of the policies on the economy. The task was challenging and ambiguous, allowing participants to interpret the relations between the policies and the economy in...
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Title
Motivated Reasoning in an Explore‐Exploit Task
Published Date
Aug 1, 2021
Journal
Volume
45
Issue
8
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