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False beliefs and naive beliefs: They can be good for you

  • Marco Bertamini (a1) and Roberto Casati (a2)
Abstract

Naive physics beliefs can be systematically mistaken. They provide a useful test-bed because they are common, and also because their existence must rely on some adaptive advantage, within a given context. In the second part of the commentary we also ask questions about when a whole family of misbeliefs should be considered together as a single phenomenon.

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