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Is Empiricism Innate? Preference for Nurture over Nature in People’s Beliefs about the Origins of Human Knowledge

2019-02-09

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<p>The origins of human knowledge are an enduring puzzle: what parts of what we know require learning, and what emerges regardless of experience? Despite nature-nurture defining debate for millennia and inspiring much contemporary research in psychology and neuroscience, it remains unknown whether people share intuitive, pre-scientific theories about the answer. Here in a series of experiments with 1188 participan...

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Literature Corpus work: 59b8aa76-2bac-5102-8e09-ffdca30ed943
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/dv8pf

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