Does “putting on your thinking cap” reduce myside bias in evaluation of scientific evidence?

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Thinking and Reasoning 25 (4):477-505 (2019)
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The desire to maintain current beliefs can lead individuals to evaluate contrary evidence more critically than consistent evidence. We test whether priming individuals’ scientific reasoning...

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10.1080/13546783.2018.1548379

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