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Emily Finn
Scientific American
|July/August 2026
Studying why people interpret the same thing in different ways
FIELD NEUROSCIENCE Dartmouth College AGE 39
Neuroscientist Emily Finn often trawls Reddit for disagreements about television shows, movies, books or podcasts—any narratives that “evoke really different reactions in different people,” she explains.
This story is from the July/August 2026 edition of Scientific American.
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