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What do you think of this as a possible way to explain Motivated Reasoning for our article?

"Motivated Reasoning is seen in cognitive science and social psychology as a mechanism people use that is emotion-driven to come to a conclusion that is most favorable. This comes about by the desire to avoid cognitive dissonance. People use motivated reasoning as a mechanism to evaluate arguments, conversations and asses data in order to quickly reach a conclusion they wish for rather than accept the evidence of the most logical explanation. Motivated Reasoning can play a part in daily activities. An example of this may be watching a close ending of a ball game. One might assume a biased outcome quickly on what is the most favorable conclusion to them if the referee makes a hard to tell call on the winning point. However, on the contrary, one might easily except the evidence and not call to question the final judgment made." (78mamaluke (talk) 01:50, 7 October 2019 (UTC))