2020•Current Opinion in Behavioral SciencesOpen access

Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference

Ben M Tappin, Gordon Pennycook, David Gertler Rand

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Key concepts: Causal inference, Inference, Motivated reasoning, Causal reasoning, Excludability, Randomized experiment, Psychology, Causality (physics)

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