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		<title>Does priming religion make people more generous?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cognitivedemons/2017/03/does-priming-religion-make-people-more-generous/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Kavanagh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2017 07:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Embed from Getty Images A decade ago a paper titled ‘God is Watching You’ by Shariff &#38; Norenzayan (2007) received a lot of attention after it reported an experimental study showing that people subconsciously primed with religious concepts, regardless of their stated level of religiosity, behaved more generously. (The study reported a similar increase when secular ‘moral’ institutions were primed but this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump and the Art of Questionnaire Design</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cognitivedemons/2017/02/trump-and-the-art-of-questionnaire-design/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Kavanagh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 03:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[President Trump and his team are in the process of carrying out an online survey. It is called the ‘Mainstream Media Accountability Survey‘ and is currently accessible on the Republican National Committee’s website here. As someone who spends a fair amount of their time designing questionnaires for psychology studies reading this relatively short questionnaire was akin to watching a horror movie. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An unfortunate reality: Milo will be back</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Kavanagh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 07:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is something of an addendum to my previous post recommending that liberals get used to Milo’s presence as a conservative voice. Shortly after that post was published a controversy erupted over positive comments about paedophilia that Milo had made during two online interviews. The subsequent outcry proved too great even for him to deflect. So in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Milo&#8217;s here to stay but liberals shouldn&#8217;t care</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cognitivedemons/2017/02/milos-stay-liberals-shouldnt-care/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Kavanagh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2017 07:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Breitbart ‘journalist’ Milo Yiannopoulous has been in the news a lot recently. Violent protests against a talk he was supposed to give at Berkeley led to President Trump tweeting out his support, not so long ago he secured a controversial $250,000 book deal and a few days ago he appeared on Bill Maher’s Real Time show [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Michael Shermer endorses popular alt-right Youtuber Stefan Molyneux</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cognitivedemons/2017/02/michael-shermer-endorses-stefan-molyneux-popular-alt-right-youtuber/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Kavanagh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2017 22:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Skepticism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cults]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Michael Shermer is a prominent figure in the skeptical community. He is the founder of the Skeptics Society, editor of Skeptic magazine, gives TED talks promoting skepticism and has published a tonne of books on the value of science, rationalism and skepticism. However, he is not without his controversy. He is a devoted libertarian and sometimes let that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Thin skins and the muddled mess of academic Jargon</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cognitivedemons/2016/10/the-muddled-mess-of-academic-jargon/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Kavanagh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Science Communication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A longstanding pet hate of mine is just how rife the arts and humanities have become with a particular brand of obscurantist (postmodern inspired) academic jargon. Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont did an admirable job of skewering some of these tendencies as they related to the (mis)use of mathematics by French post modern intellectuals in their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The value in telephoning the dead</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cognitivedemons/2016/09/the-value-in-telphoning-the-dead/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Kavanagh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2016 08:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week’s episode of the popular NPR podcast This American Life featured a touching story (available to listen to here) about how some people in Japan who had lost loved ones in the 2011 tsunami were making a pilgrimage (of sorts) to a phone booth on a hill in the town of Otsuchi in order to ‘speak with’, or more accurately send messages to, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brexit and Cognitive Bias- Part 2 Conspiracy Theories</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cognitivedemons/2016/08/brexit-and-cognitive-bias-part-2-conspiracy-theories/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Kavanagh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this second post about Brexit and the cognitive biases that surround the referendum decision I want to focus on the prevalence of conspiracy thinking. Both the Leave and Remain campaigns sought to exploit conspiratorial thinking but the Leave campaigners proved to be much more adept at this and it proved to be one of the key factors behind their success. Now in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Of Gorillas and Cruel Intentions</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cognitivedemons/2016/07/of-gorillas-and-intentions/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Kavanagh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2016 08:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ll get back to the unfolding Brexit car-crash in my next post but first I want to return to a story from a few months back-  the tragic death of the silverback gorilla, Harambe, who was killed after an infant fell into his enclosure. The media frenzy around this incident has passed but the outcome of the investigation conducted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brexit and Cognitive Biases- Part 1 My Position</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cognitivedemons/2016/07/brexit-and-cognitive-biases-part-1-my-position/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Kavanagh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2016 01:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I apologise for not posting recently. I have been a little snowed under preparing journal articles and on top of that I have found it hard to focus on blogging about research while the monumental EU referendum and its aftermath have been roiling over my home country. So, rather than continue and just ignore the elephant in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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