I Am, Therefore I Rationalize - TierneyLab

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I Am, Therefore I Rationalize By John Tierney

Since writing about the newly discovered ability of monkeys to rationalize, I've gotten reactions to the experiment from some other experts in cognitive dissonance. Some of them find the new research with monkeys intriguing but say it doesn't explain the complicated forms of rationalization employed by human primates.

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