Confirmation bias explained by persuasion

Is the evolved mind prone to believing misinformation? Are people gullible? What is reasoning, anyway? And what is it for? In this episode, we talk all things reasoning with Hugo Mercier (Institute Jean Nicod). If you have an opinion about whether people are reasonable (or not) this episode is for you. 

More about Hugo Mercier:

https://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=b3o24EEAAAAJ&hl=en