it’s the ability to scrutinize my own internal monologue as it occurs rather
Do you have any advise on how not to become internally polarized? I sometimes find myself wanting something to be true but then when I realize that (I want something to be true) some part of me try to compensate for my “emotional favoritism”, and I end up with one side dismissing anything I would like to be true in a somewhat compulsive manner and another side inducing negative emotions every time it’s candidate gets knocked down.
I try to emulate the views of an impartial person in internal monologue. I think it helps to engage in a lot of debates and discussions and take pains to observe the differences between people who have incentives to engage in motivated reasoning and people who don’t, so you can notice in yourself “That doesn’t seem like a way I’d respond if I weren’t engaging in motivated reasoning,” or “that really does seem like what I’d expect from an unbiased person.”
Do you have any advise on how not to become internally polarized? I sometimes find myself wanting something to be true but then when I realize that (I want something to be true) some part of me try to compensate for my “emotional favoritism”, and I end up with one side dismissing anything I would like to be true in a somewhat compulsive manner and another side inducing negative emotions every time it’s candidate gets knocked down.
I try to emulate the views of an impartial person in internal monologue. I think it helps to engage in a lot of debates and discussions and take pains to observe the differences between people who have incentives to engage in motivated reasoning and people who don’t, so you can notice in yourself “That doesn’t seem like a way I’d respond if I weren’t engaging in motivated reasoning,” or “that really does seem like what I’d expect from an unbiased person.”