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094 - The Backfire Effect - Part Two

You Are Not So Smart

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Motivated Reasoning

The same brain that generates calculus and astronomy also generates envy, fear, anger, disgust. The work of every great scientist and engineer was as emotionally motivated as that of a poet or musician. It is almost impossible to be impartial no matter how much one might like to believe that he or she is striving for neutrality.

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