Seeing Bullshit Rhetorically: Human Encounters and Cultural Values
This essay explores the idea that calling bullshit exemplifies Mercier and Sperber”s social intuitionist theory. It discusses a range of empirical research related to bullshit, including belief in the worldviews of Individualist vs. Communitarian and Hierarchical vs. Egalitarian with regard to accep...
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Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne/ Polish Rhetoric Society
2018-12-01
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| description | This essay explores the idea that calling bullshit exemplifies Mercier and Sperber”s social intuitionist theory. It discusses a range of empirical research related to bullshit, including belief in the worldviews of Individualist vs. Communitarian and Hierarchical vs. Egalitarian with regard to accepting and rejecting ideas. Calling bullshit fits well with using the heuristics of like/not like and cognitive mechanisms of debunking misinformation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-faaaa4c52d7640d18c0824f6e166200d2022-12-22T04:11:19ZengPolskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne/ Polish Rhetoric SocietyRes Rhetorica2392-31132018-12-015410.29107/rr2018.4.3Seeing Bullshit Rhetorically: Human Encounters and Cultural ValuesLeonard Shedletsky0University of Southern MaineThis essay explores the idea that calling bullshit exemplifies Mercier and Sperber”s social intuitionist theory. It discusses a range of empirical research related to bullshit, including belief in the worldviews of Individualist vs. Communitarian and Hierarchical vs. Egalitarian with regard to accepting and rejecting ideas. Calling bullshit fits well with using the heuristics of like/not like and cognitive mechanisms of debunking misinformation.http://resrhetorica.com/index.php/RR/article/view/303 |
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