Partisan cognition

Explore motivated reasoning in a two-part series from Mixing Memory addressing partisan viewpoints and cognition discussions.

Written byRazib Khan
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Chris of Mixing Memory has an important twopart series that explores the recent discussion of cognition by those with partisan viewpoints. As usual he clears up some big confusions, hopefully this will get read/linked across the web.

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