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Counterintuitive Pseudoscience Propagates by Exploiting the Mind’s Communication Evaluation Mechanisms

Epidemiological models of culture posit that the prevalence of a belief depends in part on the fit between that belief and intuitions generated by the mind’s reliably developing architecture. Application of such models to pseudoscience suggests that one route via which these beliefs gain widespread...

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Autores principales: Mermelstein, Spencer, German, Tamsin C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8523830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34675845
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.739070