Talk:Motivated tactician

Merge?[edit]

Is this really a distinct topic from motivated reasoning? MartinPoulter (talk) 17:54, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As a direct development from theories of the Cognitive Miser, probably yes. Important innovation in the theory and body of thinking. Needs to exist in its own right. AJ (talk) 20:11, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all. I also would agree that it is a distinct topic from motivated reasoning, but I also seems odd to me to have 'motivated tactition' here as a topic unto itself. In my reading of the literature this isn't much more than a metaphor to help get across the message of some of the popular dual process models of impression formation in social psychology. Indeed, in reading the article as it currently stands it seems that the relevance of the idea is largely lost by sectioning it off like this (possibly evidenced by MartinPoulter's question). I therefore wonder if a merge should occur, but with somewhere like impression formation as the destination. What do others think? Cheers Andrew (talk) 02:26, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]