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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a cognitive psychologist because I met a bunch of teachers I really liked.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. New information comes in all time, and the thing we ought to be thinking about doing is changing our beliefs as that new information comes in.
- Evaluate
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never seen a proton or electron spinning around it. I have never actually seen a chromosome. I trust that they exist because people who I trust tell me they do.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Trump, when challenged on facts, says that many people feel the way he does. But feelings should not take the place of reason in matters of public policy.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are to appropriate money for roads, we need statistics on how bad our roads really are and, moreover, where more roads will be beneficial - it would be irresponsible to just build them where our gut tells us to.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds. Just how this structure leads us to experience emotional reactions is part of the mystery of music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020