Conservatives value personal stories more than liberals do when evaluating scientific evidence
How much weight would you put on a scientist's expertise versus the opinion of a random stranger? People on either end of the political spectrum decide differently what seems true.
Michelle Sarraf, Master's Student in Economics, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona •
conversation
Nov. 9, 2020 • ~6 min
Nov. 9, 2020 • ~6 min
How humans’ sense of ‘intuitive physics’ touches fictional worlds
A Harvard study is exploring the way humans’ sense of “intuitive physics” of the real world leaves fingerprints on the fictional universes we create.
Peter Reuell
• harvard
Nov. 14, 2019 • ~8 min
Nov. 14, 2019 • ~8 min
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