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> Despite bullshit-receptivity and profoundness-receptivity being positively correlated with each other, logistic regression analyses showed that profoundness-receptivity had a positive association whereas bullshit-receptivity had a negative association with both types of prosocial behavior.

Not surprising. People incapable of differentiating objectivity from self-satisfying statements are less likely predict anything objectively.

Whereas...

> The results suggest that people who are better at distinguishing the pseudo-profound from the actually profound are more prosocial.

People who are objective are better able to analyze social contexts.

I further suspect objective people are already aware of this and self-satisfying people are not aware there is any difference.




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