Post hoc rationalization The choice we made for other reasons is the best one for these constructed reasons that didn't exist until later. https://en.wikipedi

Post hoc rationalization The choice we made for other reasons is the best one for these constructed reasons that didn't exist until later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias Measuring and Mitigating Post-hoc Rationalization in Reverse Chain-of-Thought Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14469 https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14469