Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedPaul Bloom: belief
7 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
“In some work with Laurie Santos, who had a thriving monkey lab, we found that Capuchins did the same thing.”
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- Paul Bloom
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- belief
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- 7 Aug 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…My wife does this too. She’s great at this. Do monkeys have cognitive dissonance? I’ve done some research suggesting that they might of a sort. The sort of cognitive dissonance we were interested in is that when you choose something, say out of a choice of two things, that makes you like it more and makes you like the things that you didn’t choose less. In some work with Laurie Santos, who had a thriving monkey lab, we found that Capuchins did the same thing. We also found three-year-olds did the same thing. Endowment effects, right?…
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