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Does “putting on your thinking cap” reduce myside bias in evaluation of scientific evidence?
Thinking and Reasoning 25 (4):477-505 (2019)
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The desire to maintain current beliefs can lead individuals to evaluate contrary evidence more critically than consistent evidence. We test whether priming individuals’ scientific reasoning...Other Versions
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Individual differences in epistemically suspect beliefs: the role of analytic thinking and susceptibility to cognitive biases.Jakub Šrol - 2022 - Thinking and Reasoning 28 (1):125-162.
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