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Katharine Hayhoe

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That’s exactly what’s happening. We make up our mind in advance, typically based on our ideology and social network, and then we use our brain to go out and look for reasons to prove we’re right. It’s called motivated reasoning. @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has a good TED talk on this

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Thanks, will check it out

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