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Behavior
How to Overcome Antiscientific Thinking
Convincing people who doubt the validity of climate change and evolution to change their beliefs requires overcoming a set of ingrained cognitive biases
Adam B. Cohen is a professor of psychology at Arizona State whose work focuses on the psychological foundations of religious beliefs. Credit: Nick Higgins
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