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  2. Truth-default theory - Wikipedia

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    Because people tend to tell the truth more often than they lie (e.g., [20]) and because individuating cues are typically not diagnostic, [19] ALIED argues that this is why people are biased to believe others show the truth bias: it is not a default of honesty (as TDT would claim), but an adaptive and functional decision that reflects the best ...

  3. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The tendency to estimate that the likelihood of a remembered event is less than the sum of its (more than two) mutually exclusive components. [181] Tachypsychia: When time perceived by the individual either lengthens, making events appear to slow down, or contracts. [182] Telescoping effect

  4. Illusory truth effect - Wikipedia

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    The effect grew even more pronounced when statements were repeated twice and yet more pronounced when they were repeated four times. The researchers thus concluded that memory retrieval is a powerful method for increasing the so-called validity of statements and that the illusion of truth is an effect that can be observed without directly ...

  5. From White Lies To Black Holes, Here Are 30 Times People Lied ...

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    Image credits: SurlyJason #2. Told some friends i knew a language i barley did. Ended up learning said language… Now im a language nerd because i just discovered my love for learning languages.

  6. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

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  8. “What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 30 People Get ...

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    Image credits: P4npetpet #20. Democracy. I no longer see republicans as people. #21. The idea that humans are basically good (in the sense of morality) and intelligent (in the sense of wisdom).

  9. Illusory superiority - Wikipedia

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    Despite the fact that most people in the study believed that they had more friends than their friends, a 1991 study by sociologist Scott L. Feld on the friendship paradox shows that on average, due to sampling bias, most people have fewer friends than their friends have.