| a. | Believing something because it fits with one’s other beliefs and does not necessitate any changes to one’s current thinking. |
| b. | Pursues one’s interests while respecting the interests of others, seeks to be fair-minded, and strives to consider all relevant information. |
| c. | Tendency to assume one’s beliefs are true because one has not questioned them. |
| d. | Ignoring obvious inconsistencies in one’s thinking. |
| e. | Ignoring the obviously implausible implications of one’s beliefs. |
| f. | Seeks one’s self interests at the expense of others, pursues self-validation, and reacts with negative emotion when desires are not met. |
| g. | Failure to take note of evidence that is contrary to one’s beliefs. |
| h. | Using direct power over others to get what one wants. |
| i. | Answer that appears to resolve a problem but really does not. |
| j. | Accepting without question the prevailing beliefs of one’s group. |
| k. | Interprets problems as the result of cultural norms |
| l. | Strategic subservience to others to get what one wants. |
| m. | Ignoring meaningful complexities in the world in order to preserve the clarity of one’s current beliefs. |
| n. | Selectively forgetting information that does not support one’s thinking and remembering information that does. |
| o. | Desire to hold on to beliefs one has held for a long time. |
| p. | Holding on to a belief because it justifies pursuing one’s personal advantage over others. |
| q. | Interprets problems as caused by social group dynamics. |
| r. | Tendency to see all of one’s life as good or bad on the basis of a single event. |
| s. | Overconfidence that one possesses true beliefs. |
| t. | Applying a narrow point of view to one’s thinking. |
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