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Deep canvassing, street epistemology, and other tools of persuasion (with David McRaney)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
**Haidt split brain experiments, Left Brain Interpreter and Confabulation, justification **
Research reveals the existence of the left brain interpreter, responsible for narrating experiences to the individual. In experiments, when this brain portion lacks information about a situation but is asked to explain it, individuals provide false justifications. This phenomenon called confabulation highlights how individuals rationalize actions effortlessly without true understanding. This tendency extends to moral reasoning, where individuals may exhaustively justify beliefs without true comprehension, reaching a state called moral dumbfounding.
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