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Repetition makes statements easier to process relative to new, unrepeated statements, leading people to believe that the repeated conclusion is more truthful. The illusory truth effect has also been linked to hindsight bias , in which the recollection of confidence is skewed after the truth has been received.
The Tinkerbell effect points out a significant flaw in the brain's system of receiving and interpreting visually available information: it is not directly representative of reality. With the overwhelming amount of sensory information, the brain summarizes it by filling in what it cannot make sense of. In other words, it is an act of imagination ...
The person making the argument expects that the listener will accept the provided definition, making the argument difficult to refute. [ 19 ] Divine fallacy (argument from incredulity) – arguing that, because something is so phenomenal or amazing, it must be the result of superior, divine, alien or paranormal agency.
The backfire effect is a name for the finding that given evidence against their beliefs, people can reject the evidence and believe even more strongly. [ 138 ] [ 139 ] The phrase was coined by Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler in 2010. [ 140 ]
“Their false sense of self is telling them they are great and have no flaws or vulnerabilities. On top of that, their defense mechanisms make them believe they are always right, even when they ...
I believe we are just being lulled into a false sense of security." – Earl Warren , then California's Attorney General (before a congressional hearing in San Francisco on 21 February 1942).
Cognitive slippage is considered a milder and sub-clinical presentation of formal thought disorder observed via unusual use of language. [1] It is often identified when a person attempts to make tangential connections between concepts that are not immediately understandable to listeners. [2]
Black men reacted to the Harris campaign struggling with Black men in the polls at a rally held at Huntington Place by former President Donald Trump in Detroit, Michigan.