Reasoning and Epistemic Vigilance with Hugo Mercier
Reasoning and Epistemic Vigilance with Hugo Mercier  
Podcast: Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast)
Published On: Tue Dec 09 2025
Description: Is the evolved mind prone to believing misinformation? Are people gullible? What is reasoning, anyway? And what is it for? In this episode, we talk all things reasoning with Hugo Mercier (Institute Jean Nicod). If you have an opinion about whether people are reasonable (or not) this episode is for you.    More about Hugo Mercier: https://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=b3o24EEAAAAJ&hl=en