Wednesday, 6 May 2015

How to win any argument: pseudo-scientific neuro-gibberish

"Neuroscientific explanations – involving phrases such as 'prefrontal cortex' and 'neural circuitry' – were consistently rated the most convincing, even when the information was pointless and offered no further insight. The authors concluded that participants found neuroscience to be the most alluring explanation for psychological findings, even when it shouldn’t be."

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