094 - The Backfire Effect - Part Two
You Are Not So Smart
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The Effects of Belief Whack-a-Mole on Autism
Ditto explained that this same game of belief whack-a-mole appears when we try to dissuade people from misconceptions and bias when discussing politics. He said motivated reasoning dances on this tightrope of adaptiveness in the sense that if we only believed what we wanted to believe, that would be adaptively problematic. Ditto: "There's a lot of things that I'd like to believe, and some of those might get me in trouble"
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