Gentle Advice Deck
psychology
Brandolini’s lawThe amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.
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The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.
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An empirical relationship between arousal and performance. The law dictates that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point. When levels of arousal become too high, performance decreases.
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Conscious attention to a task normally performed automatically can impair its performance.
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Memory recall is higher for the last items of a list when the list items were received via speech than when they were received through writing.
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The tendency to set much more explicit goals for low priority domains than for their most important ambitions.
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The tendency to overestimate the probability of one’s success at a task perceived as hard, and to underestimate the likelihood of one’s success at a task perceived as easy.
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The tendency to take greater risks when perceived safety increases.
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The remembering of the past as having been better than it really was.
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The tendency to overestimate the amount that other people notice your appearance or behavior.
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The reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms.
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A preference for the current state of affairs. The current baseline (status quo) is taken as a reference point, and any change from that baseline is perceived as a loss.
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The human tendency to believe that we see the world around us objectively, and that people who disagree with us must be uninformed, irrational, or biased.
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The reluctance to consider alternatives to one's preferred line of thought.
The tendency for people to remember pleasant items more accurately than unpleasant ones.
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A common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them but that are, in fact, vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people.
Also known as the Forer effect.
The Von Restorff effect, also known as The Isolation Effect, predicts that when multiple similar objects are present, the one that differs from the rest is most likely to be remembered.
Users have a propensity to best remember the first and last items in a series.
The average person can only keep 7 (plus or minus 2) items in their working memory.
People will perceive and interpret ambiguous or complex images as the simplest form possible, because it is the interpretation that requires the least cognitive effort of us.
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An interpretive bias wherein individuals exhibit a tendency to interpret others' ambiguous behaviors as hostile, rather than benign.
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The tendency to attribute ones successes to internal factors but attribute ones failures to external factors.
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Can be thought of as an extension of the fundamental attribution error. According to the actor-observer bias, in addition to over-valuing dispositional explanations of others' behaviors, we tend to under-value dispositional explanations and over-value situational explanations of our own behavior.
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When we make attributions about another person's actions, we are likely to overemphasize the role of dispositional factors, while minimizing the influence of situational factors.
For example, if we see a coworker bump into someone on his way to a meeting, we are more likely to explain this behavior in terms of our coworker's carelessness or hastiness, rather than considering that he was running late to a meeting.
A cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is.
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