Tag: cognitive bias

The answer to Dr. Goodall seems to be that intelligence is only one of the characteristics that makes humankind unique on this planet. Into the soup, we need to add extra ingredients: especially greed and cruelty. From there, we can …

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This is true for all of us at some level, but it seems to be especially pronounced in right-wing U.S. politics since the emergence of Donald Trump on the scene in 2015.  

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In a recent post Why Do Americans Revel in Deceit? in which I suggested that we Americans need to start asking ourselves why we want to be led by overtly deceitful people. I wrote: I for one would rather elect …

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