You are influenced by the first thing you hear.

The primacy effect in conversation means the first piece of information you receive about a person disproportionately shapes your entire impression.

Asch, 1946, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
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You underestimate the power of your own habits.

Automaticity is the ability of well-practiced behaviors to run without conscious supervision or intent.

Bargh and Chartrand, 1999, American Psychologist
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Time perception changes as you get older.

Research indicates that your sense of how fast time passes is linked to how much new information you encode; as encoding slows, time feels like it accelerates.

Wittmann, 2015, Felt Time
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Numeral precision effect.
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You predict future happiness based on your current physical state.

The empathy gap describes your inability to understand how your decisions change when you move between a 'hot' state of desire and a 'cold' state of neutrality.

George Loewenstein, 2005
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You think your past tastes are a map of your future.

The consistency bias is the tendency to reconstruct your past beliefs to be more in line with your current ones.

Ross, 1989
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You ignore the math when certainty is on the table.

The 'pseudocertainty' effect explains why people choose a certain, smaller gain over a larger, statistically superior gamble.

Kahneman and Tversky, 1979, Econometrica
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How often can you identify your biases?

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You can deliberately choose to forget useless information.

Directed forgetting shows that you can reduce the accessibility of specific information when given a signal to do so.

Robert Bjork, 1970
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Anxiety changes what you pay attention to in conversation.

Attentional control theory suggests that anxiety impairs your ability to shift attention away from task-irrelevant stimuli.

Michael Eysenck, 2007
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Your best decisions happen when you stop thinking hard.

A 2006 study by Dijksterhuis proposed that complex decisions are made more effectively when distracted, though these findings have faced extensive challenges in replication.

Ap Dijksterhuis, 2006, Science
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When an algorithm gives you a polished answer in 2 seconds, your brain stops stress-testing it. That’s Automation Bias, and generative AI supercharges that mental flaw. When we use AI we mistake syntactic fluency for actual truth. 🧵👇 #AI #EdSky #CognitiveBias

You avoid thinking deeply even when you could.

Cognitive reflection is the tendency to override an intuitive, incorrect response in favor of a more deliberate, accurate one.

Shane Frederick, 2005
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You categorize people before you know their names.

The social categorization process begins almost instantly, shifting your perception of an individual based on their group identity.

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You perform differently when the task requires effort.

The effort-accuracy trade-off shows that you adjust your cognitive effort based on how much accuracy you believe the task requires.

Payne et al., 1988
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You struggle to change your mind despite evidence.

Belief persistence describes the psychological tendency to maintain an initial belief even after the evidence supporting it is proven false.

Ross, Lepper, and Hubbard, 1975
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econopass.com · Marco Bellinari

In 1995, a man named McArthur Wheeler robbed two banks in Pittsburgh in broad daylight. He made no attempt to disguise himself. He walked in, handed …

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