This graph shows the share of respondents that believe people would engage in motivated reasoning in order to trust Good News or Bad News, Pro-Party or Anti-Party news, and Pro-Performance or Anti-Performance news. Respondents are not statistically significantly more likely to predict that people motivatedly reason in Positive directions than in Negative directions, but significant majorities expect motivated reasoning towards Pro-Party and Pro-Performance news.
Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals.