See!?
French cognitive social scientists are suggesting that people argue just to win.
In today’s Times, Patricia Cohen writes that ”some researchers are suggesting that reason evolved for a completely different purpose: to win arguments. Rationality, by this yardstick… is nothing more or less than a servant of the hard-wired compulsion to triumph in the debating arena.”
I knew it!
Here’s the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/arts/people-argue-just-to-win-scholars-assert.html?ref=todayspaper
Tags: New York Times, winning arguments; Patricia Cohen
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