Rationalization as Cognitive Homeostasis: A Homobiasos Theory of Adaptive Self-Regulation

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<p>Why do intelligent, well-informed individuals persist in biased reasoning and polarization? Rather than viewing these phenomena as cognitive failures, this paper proposes that rationalization serves an adaptive regulatory function, a form of cognitive homeostasis that maintains psychological coherence when beliefs, emotions, and identity collide. The Homobiasos framework reconceptualizes bias as part of a homeo...

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10.31234/osf.io/w5cqr_v1