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My Chat with Cognitive Scientist Dr. Hugo Mercier - On Human Reasoning (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_519)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Epistemic Vigilance and the Evolution of Peripheral Cues

"I am good looking or I'm not," he says. "I am tall or I're not." But does that affect his ability to be epistemically vigilant? Not in principle, according to the author of a new book on evolutionary theory. He thinks people are more likely to accept something if it comes from someone who is socially desirable.

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