249 - The Power of Surprise (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Inverse of Belief
There's a difference between the ease of processing when we believe something and the difficulty in processing when we have to actively become skeptical or actively disbelieve like there seems to be something different. talk about these studies in which people are they are given very clear clearly obviously not true things and then they are measured in an fMRI. I know your work on assimilation and accommodations probably shows that in a similar way as your your belief is simply assimilated in the brain just kind of sifts into there disbelief which fascinated me was actually in the same parts of the brain as they um is discussed and the old factory.
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