Editing Attribution bias (section)

====Motivational explanation====
Some researchers criticized the view that attributional biases are a sole product of information processing constraints, arguing that humans do not passively interpret their world and make attributions; rather, they are active and goal-driven beings. Building on this criticism, research began to focus on the role of motives in driving attribution biases.<ref name="Tetlock and Levi 1982">{{cite journal | last1 = Tetlock | first1 = P.E. | last2 = Levi | first2 = A. | year = 1982 | title = Attribution bias: On the inconclusiveness of the cognition-motivation debate | journal = Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | volume = 18 | pages = 68–88 | doi = 10.1016/0022-1031(82)90082-8 }}</ref> Researchers such as [[Ziva Kunda]] drew attention to the motivated aspects of attributions and attribution biases. Kunda in particular argued that certain biases only appear when people are presented with motivational pressures; therefore, they cannot be exclusively explained by an objective cognitive process.<ref name="Kunda 1987">{{cite journal | last1 = Kunda | first1 = Z | year = 1987 | title = Motivated inference: Self-serving generation and evaluation of causal theories | journal = Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | volume = 53 | issue = 4| pages = 636–647 | doi=10.1037/0022-3514.53.4.636}}</ref> More specifically, people are more likely to construct biased social judgments when they are motivated to arrive at a particular conclusion, so long as they can justify this conclusion.<ref name="Kunda 1990">{{cite journal | last1 = Kunda | first1 = Z | year = 1990 | title = The case for motivated reasoning | journal = Psychological Bulletin | volume = 108 | issue = 3| pages = 480–498 | doi = 10.1037/0022-3514.53.4.636 | pmid = 2270237 }}</ref>