Enlarge / January 7, 2021 – St. Paul, Minn. — Trump supporters gather at the Minnesota Governor’s Residence after a “Storm The Capitol” event at the Minnesota State Capitol. (credit: Chad Davis / Flickr) Motivated reasoning is the idea that our mental processes often cause us to filter the evidence we accept based on whether […]
Enlarge / Women in traditional Mosuo clothing. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) In most societies, there are very easy to quantify differences between men and women. Women tend to live longer but earn less, for example. Historically, there has been a strong tendency to ascribe those differences to biology. But most societies treat women very differently, making […]