Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong

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By Andrew Shtulman ’01

Published May 5, 2017

  Why do we catch colds? What causes the seasons to change? Cognitive and developmental psychologist Andrew Shtulman ’01 explores the root of our misconceptions about the world around us — and teaches us how to rebuild our knowledge from its foundations in his new book Scienceblind (Basic Books).

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