The Believing Brain

By M. Shermer. 2011

138 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/df209055d19a22844ed2b7c335b4eef4cae1c1fe

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Joanna Sterling
2. Alan J. Fridlund
3. Gordon Pennycook
4. John T. Jost
5. David G. Rand
6. Aaron C. Kay

Citations in the corpus

• Are neoliberals more susceptible to bullshit? (2016, background): “…taken the position that there are no meaningful, domain-general differences in reasoning abilities and that liberals and conservatives should be equally prone to simplistic, flawed, and distorted ways of thinking (e.g., Conway et al., 2016; Crawford, 2012; Haidt, 2012; Kahan, 2012; Shermer, 2011).”
• The color of emotion: A metric for implicit color associations (2016, background): “These qualitative observations must be verified, however, given the natural tendency to see patterns amid randomness, and the fact that any pattern may simply be due to chance (Chapman, 1967; Chapman & Chapman, 1969; Shermer, 2011).”