When conviction and desire override evidence: Beriberi in the Japanese Navy of the 19th century

I was just reading (or, more accurately, re-reading) a passage in Timothy Wilson’s Strangers to Ourselves, that gives some insight into the Japanese military bureaucracy’s resistance to accepting a proven solution to a serious problem. Here’s the passage: The adaptive unconscious is not governed by accuracy and accessibility alone. People’s judgments and interpretations are often […]



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