Explore/Thinkers/Dan M Kahan — Motivated Reasoning.articleDan M Kahan — Motivated Reasoning.Kahan, Dan M. "Motivated Reasoning." *Behavioral and Brain Sciences* (2017).Previous← Claude M Steele — Whistling VivaldiNextDaniel Kahneman — Thinking, Fast and Slow →Related conceptsConceptAdaptationlocal response to pressureConceptInterpretationlocalized reconstruction of meaningRelated booksBookHow Meaning MovesSignal, Compression, Restraint, and the Pace of UnderstandingA concise tour of how meaning travels through language, systems, and relationships, and why restraint is often the difference between noise and connection.