Is It Possible to Simplify Reasoning?

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There's a kind of evolutionary psychology school for but we've got kind of were we're exceptionally sensitive to rule breaking and social rule breaking. We have, many people you speak to are not convinced by that, and think it's more to do with familiarity or al kind of kind of concreteness. I haven't managed to get to the bottom of this. The minimum it says to me is the em like in these other tasks, were very bad abstract reasoning a but that can be supported if you give people the right scaffolding. And so you you ca scaffold people's reasoning. But theres obviously a when things get abstract, our reasoning, they is often untat.

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Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places where we currently gather make it much easier to produce arguments in isolation rather than evaluate them together in groups. The latest research suggests we will need much more of the latter if we hope to create a new, modern, functioning marketplace of ideas. In this episode, psychologist Tom Stafford takes us through his research into how to do just that.

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