The expressive rationality of inaccurate perceptions.
This commentary uses the dynamic of identity-protective cognition to pose a friendly challenge to Jussim (2012). Like other forms of information processing, this one is too readily characterized as a bias. It is no mistake, however, to view identity-protective cognition as generating inaccurate perceptions. The "bounded rationality" paradigm incorrectly equates rationality with forming accurate beliefs. But so does Jussim's critique.
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D003071:Cognition; D012938:Social Perception