There is the concept of a “freudian slip” which refers to things that are explained by motivations that are not super socially acceptable. However the attitude towards them seems to be that such slips should not be held against the person and the fact that they try to minimise the impact of the tendency works for their favour. And an extreme case would be tourettes where a person constantly spats explatives where it’s important to not take the insults at face value.
Might be too politcal, but it’s not super controversial when wondering why America wars so much to refer to “military-industrial complex” which seems to refer to an incentive-structure or actor strategy. If you “bolt” too much on that people will file you in the same folder with conspiracists with or without cause. The whole concept of “political correctness” can be thought of as a critique of a positon held becuase of social approval rather than cognitive work done.
There are also such idioms such as “money talks” and “You sing the songs of the of the ones whose bread you eat”.
The effects are pretty well known and the issue is not that the phenomenon can’t be singled out but what kinds of valuations are attributed to it.
Usually if someone is doing motivated cognition they are doing cognition which can usually be turned to be beneficial. It’s far too common for things to fail becuase nobody was thinking. And bad arguments once aired can be corrected. Courts have devils advocates and they are not seen to malfunction for having those.
post: a judge is expected to be impartial and undoing the negation part of that word the concept you are looking for is “being partial” or “partiality”. Attorneys are expected to be “zealous advocates” it’s okay for them to take sides. A judge being partial might get called a “corrupted” judge which has a pretty heavy connotation. Having a conversational move of “Alice is corrupted in thinking X!” would have the rhetorical weight but it seems to me hard to folow up in a constrcutive way from that and it would seem to imply a position of power that is probably missing in a peer-to-peer conversation.
There is the concept of a “freudian slip” which refers to things that are explained by motivations that are not super socially acceptable. However the attitude towards them seems to be that such slips should not be held against the person and the fact that they try to minimise the impact of the tendency works for their favour. And an extreme case would be tourettes where a person constantly spats explatives where it’s important to not take the insults at face value.
Might be too politcal, but it’s not super controversial when wondering why America wars so much to refer to “military-industrial complex” which seems to refer to an incentive-structure or actor strategy. If you “bolt” too much on that people will file you in the same folder with conspiracists with or without cause. The whole concept of “political correctness” can be thought of as a critique of a positon held becuase of social approval rather than cognitive work done.
There are also such idioms such as “money talks” and “You sing the songs of the of the ones whose bread you eat”.
The effects are pretty well known and the issue is not that the phenomenon can’t be singled out but what kinds of valuations are attributed to it.
Usually if someone is doing motivated cognition they are doing cognition which can usually be turned to be beneficial. It’s far too common for things to fail becuase nobody was thinking. And bad arguments once aired can be corrected. Courts have devils advocates and they are not seen to malfunction for having those.
post: a judge is expected to be impartial and undoing the negation part of that word the concept you are looking for is “being partial” or “partiality”. Attorneys are expected to be “zealous advocates” it’s okay for them to take sides. A judge being partial might get called a “corrupted” judge which has a pretty heavy connotation. Having a conversational move of “Alice is corrupted in thinking X!” would have the rhetorical weight but it seems to me hard to folow up in a constrcutive way from that and it would seem to imply a position of power that is probably missing in a peer-to-peer conversation.