Why You Believe Obvious Lies

By Owen Blackwood
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Length44m

About this audiobook

Motivated reasoning, tribal epistemology, and exactly why commitment to group identity overpowers evidence and logic consistently despite intelligence levels. This cognitive science application to politics reveals how team loyalty determines belief regardless of facts contradicting group positions. Understand why intelligent people believe demonstrably false things when identity is involved and why facts rarely change minds once identity is activated strongly.

Audiobook details

GenrePolitics and Government, Psychology
Length44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2025
LanguageEnglish

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