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Journal articles
Wishful Thinking: Belief, Desire, and the Motivated Evaluation of Scientific Evidence
Abstract : The article discusses a study which examined whether desire would trump beliefs based on facts when participants were asked if they believe home care is superior to day care. It also examind whether would-be-parents would change their initial beliefs to conform to their plans and desires. The study concluded that evaluations of purported scientific evidence were shaped more by what would-be-parents desired to be true than by what they had initially believed to be true.
https://hal-hec.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00609541
Contributor : Antoine Haldemann <>
Submitted on : Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 1:30:47 PM
Last modification on : Thursday, January 11, 2018 - 6:19:31 AM
Contributor : Antoine Haldemann <>
Submitted on : Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 1:30:47 PM
Last modification on : Thursday, January 11, 2018 - 6:19:31 AM