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A student receives a marked essay with “good work” at the top and no indication of what made it good. Another receives two pages of corrections after the…

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Hugo Mercier: reasoning and argumentation

Hugo Mercier’s research programme asks what human reasoning is for, how people evaluate arguments and testimony, and why human beings may be less gullible than many theories assume. His interactionist account of reasoning is influential and generative, but it remains a theory to be tested rather than a final explanation of rationality.

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Phenomenal consciousness

A person hears a cello note, feels a cold surface, or notices the sting of a headache. Each event can be described from the outside as sound processing…

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Acute stress

What changes during short-term challenge, why effects depend on timing and task, and why acute activation is not automatically damage

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