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Among students who were asked to write about being Asian (the "affirmational condition"), 26% expressed a preference for Obama, 68% preferred Clinton, and one was uncommitted; among subjects who were asked to write about being not Caucasian (the "negational condition") the results were totally reversed -- 63% for Obama, 26% for Clinton, and two uncommitted.

Oh mighty LJ brain-- eddvick 2008

“Creationism Lite,” you might call it — an affirmational creed that carries its own emotional and intellectual style of thinking and speaking.

The Reverend 2006

“Creationism Lite,” you might call it — an affirmational creed that carries its own emotional and intellectual style of thinking and speaking.

The Reverend 2006

“Creationism Lite,” you might call it — an affirmational creed that carries its own emotional and intellectual style of thinking and speaking.

The Reverend 2006

You look at (1) when seeking to account for my actual decision — note that the actual mechanism here, as opposed to the theoretical shorthand, may not look remotely like a calculation of “expected utility” in any subjective sense, even in the HH-less affirmational sense of EH.

Happy Happy Happy 2005

When presented with this question most people – who, rightly or wrongly, care a helluva lot more about self-affirmational warm n’ fuzzies than they do about clean data sets – will be motivated to “score well” the second statement, as it offers them an opportunity to affirm their belief in God.

Matthew Yglesias » Cognitive Dissonance 2007