Why Smart People Hold Stupid Beliefs
feeling superior in status magnifies our feeling that we see reality as it is while our opponents are deluded.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
There's a common misperception that since lots of intellectuals hold beliefs like “sex is a spectrum”, therefore these beliefs must have some validity. But intellectuals are not immune to delusion; they are in fact particularly vulnerable to it. I explain here (sound on): https://t.co/eIsO4bfofR
Gurwinderx.comBut Homo sapiens’ dependency on social communication and education is as much of a curse as it is a gift. On the flip side of the coin, it is education’s fault that religious myths and fake news propagate so easily in human societies. From the earliest age, our brains trustfully absorb the tales we are told, whether they are true or false. In a soc... See more
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine …
research on intellectual humility has exploded in the past 10 years. Psychologists now have many different ways to assess intellectual humility. Social scientists know that possessing a high level of intellectual humility is associated with multiple positive outcomes, like having more empathy, more prosocial behavior, reduced susceptibility to misi... See more