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    "pk": 27081,
    "title": "Belief Updating and Argument Evaluation",
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    "abstract": "Studies of how evidence affects beliefs sometimes show be-lief polarization in response to mixed evidence. However, thenature of the mental processes leading to change in opinion isup for debate. Different accounts of how people process evi-dence and then update their beliefs make different predictions,especially about one-sided evidence, which is rarely examined.We presented subjects with multiple text arguments regardingsocio-political topics as one-sided or mixed evidence. Partici-pants rated arguments differently according to their extant be-liefs, which is consistent with accounts of motivated reason-ing. They did not polarize afterward, instead showing evi-dence of belief updating according to Bayesian principles: be-lief change is sensitive to prior opinions and to the directionand quality of the evidence presented. These data support re-thinking some of the mental processes underlying incorpora-tion of evidence into a personal belief structure.",
    "language": "eng",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "cognitive science; decision making; reasoning;language and thought; psychology; motivated reasoning; ra-tionality"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8383f2zt",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Megan",
            "middle_name": "D.",
            "last_name": "Bardolph",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Seana",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Coulson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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