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  • Moderating Opinions by Confronting Confirmation Bias

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    Stephen Novella has written an interesting piece about confirmation bias related to politics, Moderating Political Opinions. What he has to say applies to many other areas of life, including conversations about theology and our faith experiences. Novella begins his discussion by recounting findings from recent experiments conducted by psychologists. He summarizes their findings here: ……

  • Why Travelers Go South: North Seems Uphill

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    Wired: Why Travelers Go South: North Seems Uphill People making travel plans may unwittingly heed a strange rule of thumb — southern routes rule. In a new experiment, volunteers chose paths that dipped south over routes of the same distance that arched northward, perhaps because northern routes intuitively seem uphill and thus more difficult, researchers…