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cord-025358-nlmta9po	Costa-Font, Joan	Review of ‘knowledge resistance. How avoid insight from others’ by Mikael Klintman, Manchester University Press, 2019, 256 pages, Manchester, retail price 12.99£	2020-04-17		.txt	text/plain	1266	70	48	Mikael Klintman in this book discusses several different explanations for knowledge resistance drawing on evidence from several social sciences, and especially, on behavioral economics. Another explanation, at the core of behavioural economics, lies in the influence of 'negativity bias' (an evolutionary tendency to pay more attention to negative information to increase our chances of survival) on our beliefs, which makes us pay more attention to the risks of certain behaviors, and resist knowledge about their associated benefits. Central to the book is the claim that when individuals differ in their cultural values, they naturally exhibit social incentives to knowledge claims. and financially, the collaboration between individuals upholding different social values and cultures, especially in the process of knowledge production.This presents a 'bigger picture' about why, and how human beings 'resist knowledge', and what to do about it.	./cache/cord-025358-nlmta9po.txt	./txt/cord-025358-nlmta9po.txt