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Author Topic:   The Science Of Why We Don’t Believe Science
Dogmafood
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Message 2 of 15 (616095)
05-19-2011 12:58 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by fearandloathing
05-19-2011 12:35 PM


The theory of motivated reasoning builds on a key insight of modern neuroscience (PDF): Reasoning is actually suffused with emotion (or what researchers often call affect). Not only are the two inseparable, but our positive or negative feelings about people, things, and ideas arise much more rapidly than our conscious thoughts, in a matter of millisecondsfast enough to detect with an EEG device, but long before we’re aware of it.
There is an on going study at Harvard that investigates this. You can participate if you like. I am just in the middle of a book called Blink by Malcolm Gladwell that discusses our tendancy and ability to make snap judgements.

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Dogmafood
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Message 4 of 15 (616100)
05-19-2011 1:39 PM
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05-19-2011 1:22 PM


Yeah something seems a little off with the tests. I have completed 3 so far and they tell me that I have some preference for one type of body lotion over another type. I am consciously certain that I have absolutely no preference for any type of body lotion but apparently my subconscious believes otherwise.

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Dogmafood
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Message 7 of 15 (616152)
05-19-2011 10:50 PM
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05-19-2011 4:49 PM


I took it once, seems dead on to me.
You mean the results matched your conscious opinion.
It just seemed inaccurate to say that I had a preference for one imaginary body lotion over another given that I am not a body lotion kind of person. Probably has huge marketing applications.

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Dogmafood
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Message 8 of 15 (616153)
05-19-2011 10:51 PM
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05-19-2011 8:49 PM


Seems like a lot of pop psychology to me.
Are you not believing in the science of why we don't believe in science?

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Dogmafood
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Message 10 of 15 (616187)
05-20-2011 8:12 AM
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05-20-2011 6:55 AM


Were you given the same or a different test?
My test involved vode/veani (imaginary body lotion) and words like good/bad, joy/agony, wonderful/awful. Same form I guess with different subjects. They asked before the results if I thought that I had a preference.
Looking back on my results I see that I showed a strong preference for one on the first test and then a mild preference on the next two tests.
I found them from a reference in a book published in 2005. They have been testing since 1998 and have completed 4.5 million tests. I am fairly certain that they are legitimate. I have been contacted 3 times to repeat the test.

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