How cognitive biases affect our interpretation of political messages
BMJPublished 27 April 2010
Martin McKee, David Stückler
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What the authors hear is often very different from what they are told and this can have an impact on how they view the world.
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What we hear is often very different from what we are told British readers of the BMJ will soon get to vote on the competing visions of
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