World Renowned Thinker and Harvard Professor Steven Pinker: Human Action Can Improve the World (#68)
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Why Do Some People Don't Want to Get the Vaccines?
A lot of it is a partisan bias, sometimes called the my side bias. We endorse beliefs that have become sacred values within our coalitions and tribes. People can even gain status within their cliques by endorsing beliefs if they are implausible. So most forms of irrationality can be by partisan. But also, many of these intuitions are rooted in deeply ingrained ways of thinking that have probably been with our species for thousands of years.
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