Hugo Mercier has put together a model for explaining why are we so biased? Why do we fall prey to logical fallacies? What's going on whenever we have disagreements that involve motivated reasoning? He puts it into a new perspective that I think you're going to find fascinating and incredible.
On this episode we discuss the psychology of arguing and interview both Jeremy Shermer and Hugo Mercier. Afterward, I eat an orange chocolate chip cookie and read a news story about reading your partner's mood in old age.
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