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PMID: 20105374 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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The mere fact that a particular aspect of mind could offer an adaptive advantage is not enough to show that that property was in fact shaped by that adaptive advantage. Although it is possible that the tendency towards positive illusion is an evolved misbelief, it it also possible that positive illusions could be a by-product of a broader, flawed cognitive mechanism that itself was shaped by accidents of evolutionary inertia. |
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Gary F Marcus |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The Behavioral and brain sciences Volume: 32 ISSN: 1469-1825 ISO Abbreviation: Behav Brain Sci Publication Date: 2009 Dec |
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Created Date: 2010-01-28 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7808666 Medline TA: Behav Brain Sci Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 529 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10012. gary.marcus@nyu.edu http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gary/ |
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