Motivated reasoning

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Motivated reasoning

Quality:

Motivated reasoning - form of cognitive bias in which a decision is based upon supporting a desired outcome rather than the preponderance of evidence. Article “Motivated reasoning” in English Wikipedia has 60.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 66 references and 14 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Motivated reasoning” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Motivated reasoning”, its content was written by 93 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 180 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 54 times in English Wikipedia and cited 71 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #8708 in April 2023
  • Global: #21899 in November 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #73767 in June 2019
  • Global: #141467 in June 2019

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Motivated reasoning
60.5351
2Spanish (es)
Razonamiento guiado
54.0192
3Basque (eu)
Arrazoitze motibatu
40.3198
4Arabic (ar)
استدلال مدفوع
27.0444
5German (de)
Motivated Reasoning
25.0742
6Portuguese (pt)
Raciocínio motivado
14.8379
7Persian (fa)
استدلال باانگیزه
10.7419
8Russian (ru)
Предвзятое рассуждение
9.4347
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Motivated reasoning" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Motivated reasoning
590 988
2German (de)
Motivated Reasoning
23 018
3Russian (ru)
Предвзятое рассуждение
17 372
4Arabic (ar)
استدلال مدفوع
6 100
5Portuguese (pt)
Raciocínio motivado
3 816
6Spanish (es)
Razonamiento guiado
1 845
7Persian (fa)
استدلال باانگیزه
777
8Basque (eu)
Arrazoitze motibatu
269
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Motivated reasoning" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Motivated reasoning
5 952
2German (de)
Motivated Reasoning
159
3Russian (ru)
Предвзятое рассуждение
131
4Spanish (es)
Razonamiento guiado
48
5Portuguese (pt)
Raciocínio motivado
34
6Arabic (ar)
استدلال مدفوع
15
7Persian (fa)
استدلال باانگیزه
8
8Basque (eu)
Arrazoitze motibatu
6
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Motivated reasoning" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Motivated reasoning
93
2German (de)
Motivated Reasoning
64
3Russian (ru)
Предвзятое рассуждение
9
4Spanish (es)
Razonamiento guiado
5
5Basque (eu)
Arrazoitze motibatu
3
6Arabic (ar)
استدلال مدفوع
2
7Persian (fa)
استدلال باانگیزه
2
8Portuguese (pt)
Raciocínio motivado
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Motivated reasoning" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Motivated reasoning
3
2Arabic (ar)
استدلال مدفوع
0
3German (de)
Motivated Reasoning
0
4Spanish (es)
Razonamiento guiado
0
5Basque (eu)
Arrazoitze motibatu
0
6Persian (fa)
استدلال باانگیزه
0
7Portuguese (pt)
Raciocínio motivado
0
8Russian (ru)
Предвзятое рассуждение
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Motivated reasoning" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Motivated reasoning
54
2Portuguese (pt)
Raciocínio motivado
5
3Arabic (ar)
استدلال مدفوع
4
4German (de)
Motivated Reasoning
2
5Spanish (es)
Razonamiento guiado
2
6Russian (ru)
Предвзятое рассуждение
2
7Basque (eu)
Arrazoitze motibatu
1
8Persian (fa)
استدلال باانگیزه
1
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
استدلال مدفوع
deGerman
Motivated Reasoning
enEnglish
Motivated reasoning
esSpanish
Razonamiento guiado
euBasque
Arrazoitze motibatu
faPersian
استدلال باانگیزه
ptPortuguese
Raciocínio motivado
ruRussian
Предвзятое рассуждение

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#73767
06.2019
Global:
#141467
06.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#8708
04.2023
Global:
#21899
11.2019

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Motivated reasoning from Wikipedia articles about Fake news, Cognitive dissonance, The flat earth society, List of cognitive biases and Emotional reasoning. Whereas reading the article about Motivated reasoning people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Confirmation bias, Cognitive dissonance, Cognitive miser, Motivated tactician and Motivated forgetting.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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