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1. 0:00has this ever happened to you i'm great
2. 0:03friends with matt
3. 0:04matt is awesome best friendship ever
4. 0:07dude like i would vouch for him
5. 0:09no matter what did you know that max
6. 0:11stole a pen
7. 0:13matt is a thief wait what
8. 0:16matt but but matt is great like
9. 0:20awesome couldn't have
10. 0:23stolen a pen no
11. 0:27what you're experiencing is cognitive
12. 0:29dissonance
13. 0:30it means you had certain beliefs and
14. 0:32thoughts and attitudes before
15. 0:34and then you get a new set of
16. 0:36information that is against what you
17. 0:38have been believing before
18. 0:39so for example matt is a great person
19. 0:42matt is a thief
20. 0:44right this is a very stressful and
21. 0:46uncomfortable feeling
22. 0:48so you might be starting to say things
23. 0:50or to think about things
24. 0:52that can change that new information or
25. 0:54to justify this new information
26. 0:57and put all of your thoughts and ideas
27. 0:58in line things like this
28. 1:01if if matt is a thief then what about
29. 1:0410 years of me trusting him and all this
30. 1:06friendship
31. 1:08i guess i can't be friends with him
32. 1:09anymore but that also means i will lose
33. 1:12all of our friends that we have in
34. 1:13common oh man
35. 1:16so what we do sometimes in these kind of
36. 1:18instances is to do motivated reasoning
37. 1:21which means coming up with reasons to
38. 1:23discount the new information
39. 1:26you know what i think matt was just
40. 1:27trying to borrow a pen i don't think he
41. 1:29stole the pen
42. 1:30i think this was matt's own pen even if
43. 1:33he did
44. 1:33i bet the writing thing was so important
45. 1:36that he should have stolen the pen
46. 1:38you know what matt good job you should
47. 1:40steal that pen
48. 1:41you know what this is all fake news matt
49. 1:43would never steal a pen
50. 1:45so this is how motivated reasoning might
51. 1:47sound you might do motivated reasoning
52. 1:49for some really simple things so for
53. 1:51example
54. 1:52if you really want to eat a bar of
55. 1:54chocolate and you know
56. 1:56chocolate is bad for your teeth and
57. 1:58you're the one that got all the jeans
58. 1:59with the cavities and your brother is
59. 2:01the one with the good teeth jeans
60. 2:03then maybe you will start saying hey you
61. 2:05know what chocolate brings happiness
62. 2:07and happiness brings health so i'm
63. 2:10actually eating healthy
64. 2:12food in some ways but you could also be
65. 2:15doing motivated reasoning for things
66. 2:16that are
67. 2:17more important so for example if you're
68. 2:20skeptic towards vaccines
69. 2:22but you also get some new evidence or
70. 2:24information that
71. 2:26vaccines actually don't cause autism
72. 2:28then you might become
73. 2:30defensive and you try to say for example
74. 2:33you know this evidence might not be
75. 2:35correct or might not be accurate
76. 2:37or find other problems with them because
77. 2:39you really care about the community that
78. 2:41you're in the community that thinks the
79. 2:43same thing
80. 2:43as you do or you might still be really
81. 2:46worried about your children or many
82. 2:47other reasons
83. 2:49so what's really important about
84. 2:50motivated reasoning is to know
85. 2:52when you're doing motivated reasoning
86. 2:54and why you are doing it