Programmed to believe...
The saying goes that there's one born every minute, but according to census data it's really more like every eight seconds, Eoin O'Carroll reports on csmonitor.com.
In other words, we're all suckers, he wrote.
Psychologists say it takes more of our mental resources to identify a statement as false than to label it as true, a phenomenon that they chalk up to our evolutionary history as socially cooperative animals, ones who for the most part speak honestly with each other, O'Carroll added.
For more of a timely article: https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2018/0608/Programmed-to-believe-Why-people-buy-into-falsehoods?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&cmpid=FB&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1529590780
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C'mon, I'll hold it for you.
The saying goes that there's one born every minute, but according to census data it's really more like every eight seconds, Eoin O'Carroll reports on csmonitor.com.
In other words, we're all suckers, he wrote.
Psychologists say it takes more of our mental resources to identify a statement as false than to label it as true, a phenomenon that they chalk up to our evolutionary history as socially cooperative animals, ones who for the most part speak honestly with each other, O'Carroll added.
For more of a timely article: https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2018/0608/Programmed-to-believe-Why-people-buy-into-falsehoods?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&cmpid=FB&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1529590780
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US Health Care Isn't so Expensive After all.
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