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#583 Peter Ditto: Motivated Reasoning, Morality, and Politics

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Do You Know if Something Makes You Think Hard About Things?

Do you, in your work, try to understand things like motivated reasoning, morality, politics from an evolutionarysa en? Im the answeris yes, in a soft way, right? So, i ne g think evolutionary thinking can degenerate into these kind of just so stories. The fact on with evolutionary causation rises its distal causation happened millions of years ago. But from the beginning iei've always seen everything through this sort of evolutionary lens. I new that groups originally was te small state of being for humans - they fight all the time. And our psychologys erebuilt for that group living and competing for power. This is a fundamental feature of human Cognition which makes democracy

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