The Appeal of Motivated Reasoning in Anomalistic Psychology - Dr. Chris French

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, we all know that.
But Dr. Christopher French, professor of Anomalistic Psychology
at the University of London, might know it more than the rest of
us - he’s spent his career in pursuit of tangible evidence for
all kinds of paranormal beliefs. Extrasensory perception,
telepathy, dowsing - and has come up with little proof that these
phenomena occur - but has not lost the skeptical spark that
leaves all possibilities on the table.


Along the way, he became interested in the question of cognition
- how do people come to believe in magical phenomena? Did they
feel the appeal of motivated reasoning, or did it take them by
surprise? Proof and disproof don’t seem to have much of an effect
in this world of metaphysical beliefs, since cognition doesn’t
depend on facts - it’s much more about emotions, tribal
associations, and the way that humans *want* the world to be,
rather than how it *is.*


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