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Curiosity, surprise and fear. We don’t pay attention to boring things. We pay attention to things that create an emotional response. This is because the brain releases the attention hormone [...]

Aristotle accepted that people are not wholly rational, that they are often driven by their emotions. Jonathan Haidt of the University of Virginia has managed to show just how strong these [...]

Hegel believed that simply stating an argument was enough to bring counter-arguments immediately to mind. If a presenter ignores these arguments, what do we do? Most likely we ask ourselves why. [...]