by ALN | Mar 19, 2016 | Cognitive Science, Communication, Confirmation Bias, Decision Making, Improving Team Work, Information Analysis, Motivated Reasoning, Necessary Skills to Succeed, Political Correctness, Racism, Religion, Structure of Information
I found a new term, “Political Motive Attribution Asymmetry” that adds to, “Confirmation Bias,” “Selective Perception,” and “Motivated Reasoning” as the reason our political problems seem to be so intractable. The term...
by ALN | Mar 13, 2016 | Cognitive Science, Communication, Confirmation Bias, Decision Making, Leadership, Motivated Reasoning
Motivated Reasoning is where you know the answer you want and then you line up facts to support your answer. A great example of motivated reasoning was provided by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) (See Full Story Here). He is motivated to blame liberals for the divisions in...
by ALN | Nov 1, 2015 | Building Consensus, Cognitive Science, Communication, Confirmation Bias, Decision Making, Motivated Reasoning, Uncategorized
The Republicans base their entire philosophy on a number of conclusion that all the “experts” in the world would see as completely false. Man has had no impact on Global Warming. – 97% of “Climate Scientists” disagree More guns would reduce deaths by...
by ALN | Sep 11, 2015 | Building Consensus, Communication, Decision Making, Motivated Reasoning, Religion, Uncategorized
I can show you a fact on how the Dems and the GOP are different. The Republican Candidate for office in Georgia must sign a “Loyalty Oath” to the National GOP Platform. The Democratic Candidate for office does not. Here is the Fact: The Official Georgia...
by ALN | Aug 18, 2015 | Communication, Confirmation Bias, Decision Making, Economics, Education, Information Analysis, Motivated Reasoning, Necessary Skills to Succeed, Parenting, Religion, Uncategorized
Three months after I graduated from college and following a summer journalism fellowship at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, I had my first interview for a full-time newspaper reporting job. It was in Wilmington, N.C. The managing editor of the newspaper picked me up...
by ALN | Aug 4, 2015 | Building Consensus, Communication, Decision Making, Economics, Entitlements, Information Analysis, Motivated Reasoning, Necessary Skills to Succeed, Parenting, Religion, Uncategorized
In a recent Opinion piece in IJReveiew, our Congressman Tom Price, offered yet another vague response to one of most important social issues of our day; how do we achieve a healthy community? He clearly offers no solutions to achieving a healthy community. As is...
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