Why You Can’t Help Believing Everything You Read

Psyblog recently made a post about cognition and belief which could have interesting implications for the study of wisdom. 

"What is the mind's default position: are we naturally critical or naturally gullible? As a species do we have a tendency to behave like Agent Mulder from the X-Files who always wanted to believe in mythical monsters and alien abductions? Or are we like his partner Agent Scully who was the critical scientist, generating alternative explanations, trying to understand and evaluate the strange occurrences they encountered rationally? ..."

 Read the rest of the post here.