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Sample Key Takeaways:

1) Directionally motivated reasoning, also known as motivated reasoning, is an aspect of human psychology where our unconscious motives direct us to certain conclusions. It is not objective, and instead involves us framing information to fit whatever conclusions we have already made.

2) One common example of motivated reasoning is how we use news stories to support certain narratives. In most cases, people also ignore any information that proves that narrative wrong. While this phenomenon is easy to notice in other people, it can be difficult to recognize when we do it ourselves.