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In the Driver's Seat: Appetite vs. Reasons
Two processes in the brain compete for control, the limbic system representing appetite and the cortex representing reason. When people are near something they really want, they may experience motivational myopia and shut down their cognitive functi...
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Thinking and Language: How Pre-existing Beliefs Distort Logical Reasoning
Pre-existing beliefs can distort logical reasoning as demonstrated in an experiment related to attitudes toward homosexuality. Both sides of the ideological spectrum were equally biased. People are much more skeptical about information they do not w...