Ever feel like one-sided news seems more believable? 🤔 Easy-to-read, simplistic viewpoints often win us over, even when balanced reporting offers more nuance. This psychological trick influences your news consumption online. Discover more in the link in thread 👆

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If Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall, who suggested it was a good idea for him to be up there in the first place?
Do we blindly follow instructions?
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Your senses shut down to save energy over time.

Sensory adaptation occurs when your receptors decrease their response to constant, unchanging stimulation.

Sensory Adaptation, Psychophysics
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Why do we hold onto failing things just because they are ours? The endowment effect explained through behavioral science. Read more self-understanding breakdowns at klytron.com.

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Your focus defines the limits of your reality.

The bottleneck model of attention suggests you process only a fraction of available sensory input.

Donald Broadbent, 1958, Filter Model of Attention
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You judge people by their actions, but yourself by intent.

Research suggests the actor-observer asymmetry is highly context-dependent rather than a universal cognitive bias.

Jones & Nisbett, 1971
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ICYMI: Explaining frequency illusion #FrequencyIllusion #BaaderMeinhof #CognitiveBias #MarketingPsychology #AdRepetition

ICYMI: Explaining frequency illusion #FrequencyIllusion #BaaderMeinhof #CognitiveBias #MarketingPsychology #AdRepetition

You cannot stop yourself from imagining an impossible scenario.

Counterfactual thinking is your brain's persistent attempt to simulate 'what if' scenarios to understand outcomes.

Roese, 1997
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Chocolate or Vanilla is not sufficient! Are you subject to binary bias? Defeat it by multiplying your options! beyondbetter.io/binary_bias/ #CognitiveBias

Repeating a choice does not reveal the reason behind it. New research found that some learning measures can mistake repeated choices for confirmation bias, while other bias findings held up under closer testing. Before naming a bias, ask what else could explain the behavior.

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You are more creative when the font is harder to read.

Cognitive disfluency—the experience of difficulty in processing information—can trigger more deliberate, analytic thinking.

Alter et al., 2007, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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You underestimate how much control you have over your habits.

Research indicates that people who view willpower as a limited resource perform worse on self-control tasks than those who don't.

Job, Dweck, and Walton, 2010, Psychological Science
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Explaining frequency illusion #FrequencyIllusion #BaaderMeinhof #CognitiveBias #MarketingPsychology #AdRepetition

Explaining frequency illusion #FrequencyIllusion #BaaderMeinhof #CognitiveBias #MarketingPsychology #AdRepetition

You don't know what you want until you see it.

Preference construction theory demonstrates that people do not have fixed internal values; instead, they build their preferences in the moment of choice.

Slovic, 1995, American Psychologist
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Recalling a memory makes it vulnerable to being altered.

Research indicates that when a memory is reactivated, it enters a plastic state where it can be modified before being re-stored.

Nader et al., 2000, Nature
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You are already preparing your next words while speaking.

A 1986 study showed that speech errors occur because we process phonemes for future words before finishing current ones.

Gary Dell, 1986, Psychological Review
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Ice cream sales and shark attacks happen together, but one doesn't cause the other. Watch out for the hidden variable trap. Deepen your mental models at klytron.com #CriticalThinking #Logic #DataScience #Klytron

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You know $9.99 is just $10. You know the trick. It still works on you. That is not a failure of willpower. It is how the brain handles numbers.

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