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492: Michael Shermer | Why We Believe Weird Things
The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Role of Dopamine in Learning and Motivation
We get a rewarding jolt of dopamine when we come across information that confirms what we already believe. Culture still plays a huge role in trying to understand why somebody would be a self-radicalizing terrorist. The cognitive neuroscience now is the huge thing, and it's not that previous scientists were wrong so much as limited.
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