Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Day: July 26, 2016

  • Why you think you’re right — even if you’re wrong

    Motivated Reasoning aka soldier mindset: This phenomenon in which our unconscious motivations (our desires and fears) shape the way we interpret information. So some information and ideas feel like our allies and we want them to win. We want to defend them. And other information and ideas are the enemy. We want to shoot them…