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Have we lost the thinker in other minds? Human thinking beyond social norms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

Nabil Bouizegarene Open the ORCID record for Nabil Bouizegarene [Opens in a new window]
Nabil Bouizegarene*
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Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QuebecH3C 3P8, Canada. bouizegarene.nabil@uqam.ca
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Abstract

Veissière and colleagues suggest that thinking is entirely based on social norms. I point out that despite the fact that social norms are commonly used to alleviate cognitive processing, some individuals are willing and able to go about the costly process of questioning them and exploring other valuable ways of thinking.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e94
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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