ditto-lopez-1992-motivated-skepticism
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Ditto & Lopez (1992) demonstrated motivated skepticism: people apply stricter evidential standards to arguments they dislike versus those they already favor.
Summary
Human judgment isn't a neutral evidence processor: people set a much higher bar for proof against a position they already hold than for proof supporting one. This means any system modeling how people update their opinions has to account for that built-in asymmetry rather than assuming a single uniform standard for what counts as convincing.