Multiple Choice
Pinker (1997) and others have demonstrated that humans display an adaptive predisposition to make order out of disorder and sense out of nonsense. This tendency can account for
A) reliance on confirmation bias.
B) scepticism.
C) the popularity of pseudoscience.
D) belief perseverance.
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