Explore/Thinkers/Dan M Kahan — Motivated Reasoning.articleDan M Kahan — Motivated Reasoning.Kahan, Dan M. "Motivated Reasoning." *Behavioral and Brain Sciences* (2017).Focus in observatoryPrevious← Claude M Steele — Whistling VivaldiNextDaniel Kahneman — Thinking, Fast and Slow →Related conceptsConceptAdaptationIn this history, adaptation names how moral, religious, and legal systems emerge as workable responses to pressure—not as final truth discovered once and for all. What begins as adaptation can outlive the conditions that first made it necessary.ConceptInterpretationInterpretation is how meaning is reconstructed under pressure. Sacred authority compresses interpretation; writing and law later externalize it so disputes can be settled without shared presence.Related 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.
