Affective intelligence & Motivated reasoning& Backfire effect

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Affective intelligence (idea that affect, emotion, and reason beneficially work in concert in

Motivated reasoning (idea that affect, emotion, and reason work in concert in information processing, but not necessarily beneficially as individuals are psychologically motivated to maintain and find support for existing evaluations)

Backfire effect (people who receive unwelcome, correcting information not only resist that challenge to their views, they come to hold their original, erroneous position even more strongly)

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