This paper examines the potential reinforcement of motivated beliefs when individuals with identical biases communicate … find that communication, even among like-minded individuals, diminishes motivated beliefs if it takes place in an … does not reduce but rather aggravates motivated beliefs. Our results indicate a potential drawback of the plurality of …

This paper examines the potential reinforcement of motivated beliefs when individuals with identical biases communicate … find that communication, even among like-minded individuals, diminishes motivated beliefs if it takes place in an … does not reduce but rather aggravates motivated beliefs. Our results indicate a potential drawback of the plurality of …

level. Our results are consistent with models of motivated beliefs in which individuals are motivated to distort memories of …