Reasoning - The Rationalization Trap: Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas

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Reasoning - The Rationalization Trap: Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas

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Maya Chen explores why intelligent people defend flawed ideas through rationalization. Drawing on cognitive science and researchers like Yudkowsky and Kahneman, she examines motivated cognition, confirmation bias, and mechanistic thinking to recognize when we're justifying beliefs instead of testing them.

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