Question

Choose the FALSE claim:
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a
For a wide range of cases, our automatic processes are better and faster at processing information than our deliberate ones.

b
For the most part, it's good that System 1 processes operate below the radar of our awareness because we would not be able to consciously consider all the information they process.

c
We're most susceptible to motivated reasoning when the evidence is clear or we're assessing something that's easy to measure.

d
We often hold on to beliefs even if our original reasons are debunked, and we go on to interpret subsequent evidence in a way that confirms them.

Answer 1

c

Motivated reasoning is stronger when evidence is ambiguous, hard to measure, or emotionally/identity-loaded — not when the evidence is clear and easy to assess.