Andrew Shtulman, Author Of Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About The World Are So Often Wrong Chats On DrAlvin.Com
Click Here To Listen Andrew Shtulman "A fascinating, empathetic book" --Wall Street Journal Humans are born to create theories about the world--unfortunately, we're usually wrong and bad theories keep us from understanding science as it really is Why do we catch colds? What causes seasons to change? And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a pinch we almost always get these questions wrong. Worse, we regularly misconstrue fundamental qualities of the world around us. In Scienceblind, cognitive and developmental psychologist Andrew Shtulman shows that the root of our misconceptions lies in the theories about the world we develop as children. [...]

