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'Retroplex' and why we feign knowledge
Why do so many of us pretend to know more than we actually do, even to the point of faking knowledge of made-up terms like "retroplex"? Cornell University psychologist Stav Atir has looked at the phenomenon of "overclaiming"
(Photo: The brain and nerves from an early 19th century book of anatomy, circa 1830. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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