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GliderGuider

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14. Did you read the paper I referenced?

Fri Nov 22, 2013, 03:24 PM

Nov 2013

EP isn't as soft as social psychology. There is confirmation coming in from neuroscience using fMRI and similar technologies. There's still a lot of inference going on, but it explains how humans behave in very consistent and parsimonious ways.

You might also read Baumeister and Masicampo: http://sites.sas.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/prospection/files/945.pdf

I would invite you to investigate and make up your mind for yourself. Don't emulate the Cardinals who refused to look through Galileo's telescope.

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Nice safe answer. GliderGuider Nov 2013 #8

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Did you read the paper I referenced? GliderGuider Nov 2013 #14

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