Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things (with Dr. Michael Shermer)
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The Evolution of Political Bias in Social Psychology
CNN's John Sutter asks how social psychology can have a political bias and still be objective. He says we form beliefs first, assume things are true just in case they're not. We also make snap decisions based on rapid cognition or type one thinking as Kahneman calls it. This article by Steven Pinker is called the most important of recent decades for social science.
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