Climate of Disbelief
This vignette depicts a famous type of motivated reasoning: confirmation bias. We tend to accept information that agrees with our take on the world, and to discount data that contradict it. Many studies affirm this. People told they scored low on an IQ …
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Will Bruno Caboclo Be the Latest Long-Term Prospect to Speed Up Development?
Only a few teams even met with him in person heading up to the June 26 festivities. In fact, when ESPN's Fran Fraschilla uttered his now-famous description of Caboclo, he surely didn't think he was exaggerating. Little did he know just how viral this …
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Climate of Disbelief
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