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Understanding ourselves, one idea at a time. A free knowledge base of cognitive biases, logical fallacies, and the hidden patterns behind how we think, argue, and get fooled. Designed for educators and learners. moresapien.org
Moral Licensing The psychological loophole where doing something good gives you permission to do something bad. https://moresapien.org/moral-licensing/ #Workplace #Politics
Moral Licensing - Moresapien
The psychological loophole where doing something good gives you permission to do something bad.
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Your brain is playing tricks on you. Conformity Bias: The pull to adjust your beliefs, behaviours, or opinions to match those of the group around you. https://moresapien.org/conformity-bias/ #DecisionMaking #Persuasion
Conformity Bias - Moresapien
The pull to adjust your beliefs, behaviours, or opinions to match those of the group around you.
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"The most powerful question you can ask is: what would I do if nobody had done this before?" This is the First Principles Thinking. https://moresapien.org/first-principles-thinking/ #DecisionMaking #CriticalThinking #Workplace
First Principles Thinking - Moresapien
Breaking a problem down to its most basic truths and building up from there, rather than reasoning by analogy.
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Ever heard of the Cognitive Offloading? Handing mental work to external tools - and the risk that the thinking we stop doing is the thinking we lose. https://moresapien.org/cognitive-offloading/ #CriticalThinking #Education #DecisionMaking
Cognitive Offloading - Moresapien
Handing mental work to external tools - and the risk that the thinking we stop doing is the thinking we lose.
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Poisoning the Well Discrediting a person or source before they've even spoken, so that anything they say is automatically dismissed. https://moresapien.org/poisoning-the-well/ #Debate #Politics
Poisoning the Well - Moresapien
Discrediting a person or source before they've even spoken, so that anything they say is automatically dismissed.
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Your brain is playing tricks on you. Functional Fixedness: The tendency to see objects, tools, and ideas only in terms of their conventional use, making it harder to find creative solutions. https://moresapien.org/functional-fixedness/ #CriticalThinking #EverydayLife #Workplace
Functional Fixedness - Moresapien
The tendency to see objects, tools, and ideas only in terms of their conventional use, making it harder to find creative solutions.
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"Expertise is specific. A brilliant person speaking outside their field is just a brilliant person with an opinion." This is the Authority Bias. https://moresapien.org/authority-bias/ #Persuasion #Misinformation #MediaLiteracy
Authority Bias - Moresapien
We give disproportionate weight to the opinions of people we perceive as authorities - even outside their expertise.
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Ever heard of the Repetition as Persuasion? The rhetorical strategy of making a claim more believable, more familiar, and more powerful simply by saying it again and again. https://moresapien.org/repetition-as-persuasion/ #Propaganda #MediaLiteracy #Advertising
Repetition as Persuasion - Moresapien
The rhetorical strategy of making a claim more believable, more familiar, and more powerful simply by saying it again and again.
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Paradox of Tolerance A tolerant society that tolerates intolerance will eventually be destroyed by it. https://moresapien.org/paradox-of-tolerance/
Paradox of Tolerance - Moresapien
A tolerant society that tolerates intolerance will eventually be destroyed by it.
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Know thyself. AI Slop: AI slop is low-quality content mass-produced by generative AI - made for clicks, not for you. How to spot it, and why it is everywhere. https://moresapien.org/ai-slop/ #SocialMedia #Misinformation
AI Slop - Moresapien
AI slop is low-quality content mass-produced by generative AI - made for clicks, not for you. How to spot it, and why it is everywhere.
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"If you can only defeat the weakest version of an argument, you haven't defeated the argument. You've just made yourself feel clever." This is the Steel Manning. https://moresapien.org/steel-manning/ #Debate #CriticalThinking #Persuasion
Steel Manning - Moresapien
The practice of engaging with the strongest possible version of someone's argument, rather than the weakest - the opposite of a straw man.
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Ever heard of the The Attention Economy? A system in which human attention is treated as a scarce resource to be harvested, bought, sold, and competed for - reshaping culture around it. https://moresapien.org/the-attention-economy/ #SocialMedia #CriticalThinking #MediaLiteracy
The Attention Economy - Moresapien
A system in which human attention is treated as a scarce resource to be harvested, bought, sold, and competed for - reshaping culture around it.
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Opportunity Cost Every choice has a hidden price tag: the value of the next-best thing you gave up by choosing this one. https://moresapien.org/opportunity-cost/ #DecisionMaking #Workplace #CriticalThinking
Opportunity Cost - Moresapien
Every choice has a hidden price tag: the value of the next-best thing you gave up by choosing this one.
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Someone's trying to frame the conversation. Thought-Terminating Cliche: A commonly used phrase that shuts down critical thinking by making further discussion feel unnecessary. https://moresapien.org/thought-terminating-cliche/
Thought-Terminating Cliche - Moresapien
A commonly used phrase that shuts down critical thinking by making further discussion feel unnecessary.
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Relative Deprivation Feeling worse off based on who you compare yourself to, not on what you actually have. https://moresapien.org/relative-deprivation/
Relative Deprivation - Moresapien
Feeling worse off based on who you compare yourself to, not on what you actually have.
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Ever heard of the Cognitive Load? When the demands on your working memory exceed its capacity, your ability to think clearly, make good decisions, and resist manipulation drops sharply. https://moresapien.org/cognitive-load/ #DecisionMaking #Education
Cognitive Load - Moresapien
When the demands on your working memory exceed its capacity, your ability to think clearly, make good decisions, and resist manipulation drops sharply.
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Optimism Bias The tendency to overestimate the likelihood of positive outcomes and underestimate the likelihood of negative ones happening to you. https://moresapien.org/optimism-bias/ #DecisionMaking #Risk #Health
Optimism Bias - Moresapien
The tendency to overestimate the likelihood of positive outcomes and underestimate the likelihood of negative ones happening to you.
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Your brain is playing tricks on you. Fundamental Attribution Error: The tendency to explain other people's behaviour as a result of their character while explaining your own as a result of your circumstances. https://moresapien.org/fundamental-attribution-error/ #Relationships #Workplace
Fundamental Attribution Error - Moresapien
The tendency to explain other people's behaviour as a result of their character while explaining your own as a result of your circumstances.
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"The person who receives your anger is not always the person who caused it. And the thing that triggers the reaction is not always the thing behind it." This is the Displacement. https://moresapien.org/displacement/ #Psychology #Relationships #Workplace
Displacement - Moresapien
Redirecting an emotional response - usually anger or frustration - away from its real source and onto a safer, less threatening target.
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Ever heard of the Controlling the Narrative? The power to decide what a story is about - and, just as importantly, what it isn't about. https://moresapien.org/controlling-the-narrative/ #Politics
Controlling the Narrative - Moresapien
The power to decide what a story is about - and, just as importantly, what it isn't about.
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Complexity Bias The tendency to prefer complex explanations over simple ones, and to mistrust simple solutions to problems that feel complicated. https://moresapien.org/complexity-bias/ #CriticalThinking #DecisionMaking #EverydayLife
Complexity Bias - Moresapien
The tendency to prefer complex explanations over simple ones, and to mistrust simple solutions to problems that feel complicated.
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Someone's trying to frame the conversation. Loaded Language: Words chosen to trigger an emotional reaction rather than communicate neutral information. https://moresapien.org/loaded-language/
Loaded Language - Moresapien
Words chosen to trigger an emotional reaction rather than communicate neutral information.
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"The most valuable opinion you can hold is the one you formed before you knew what you were supposed to think." This is the Independent Evaluation. https://moresapien.org/independent-evaluation/ #CriticalThinking #DecisionMaking #MediaLiteracy
Independent Evaluation - Moresapien
Forming your own judgement about an idea or claim before looking at what everyone else thinks.
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Ever heard of the Tone Policing? Dismissing someone's argument by criticising how they expressed it rather than engaging with what they said. https://moresapien.org/tone-policing/ #Debate #Politics #SocialMedia
Tone Policing - Moresapien
Dismissing someone's argument by criticising how they expressed it rather than engaging with what they said.
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Normalisation The gradual process by which the previously unthinkable becomes acceptable, then expected, then invisible - the slow drift of what a culture treats as normal. https://moresapien.org/normalisation/ #CriticalThinking #MediaLiteracy #Politics
Normalisation - Moresapien
The gradual process by which the previously unthinkable becomes acceptable, then expected, then invisible - the slow drift of what a culture treats as normal.
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Your brain is playing tricks on you. Planning Fallacy: The tendency to underestimate how long a task will take, how much it will cost, and how many things will go wrong along the way. https://moresapien.org/planning-fallacy/ #DecisionMaking #SelfDeception
Planning Fallacy - Moresapien
The tendency to underestimate how long a task will take, how much it will cost, and how many things will go wrong along the way.
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"Fairness doesn't mean giving every position equal airtime. It means giving the evidence its proper weight." This is the False Equivalence. https://moresapien.org/false-equivalence/
False Equivalence - Moresapien
Treating two things as equally valid or important when they clearly aren't.
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Ever heard of the Feedback Loops? When the output of a system feeds back in as input, either amplifying or dampening the original effect. https://moresapien.org/feedback-loops/
Feedback Loops - Moresapien
When the output of a system feeds back in as input, either amplifying or dampening the original effect.
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Naive Realism The belief that you see the world as it objectively is - and that anyone who disagrees must be biased, uninformed, or irrational. https://moresapien.org/naive-realism/ #Politics #Relationships
Naive Realism - Moresapien
The belief that you see the world as it objectively is - and that anyone who disagrees must be biased, uninformed, or irrational.
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A bad-faith move to watch out for. Weaponised Hopelessness: When despair is deliberately cultivated to stop people from acting - because people who believe nothing can change won't try to change anything. https://moresapien.org/weaponised-hopelessness/
Weaponised Hopelessness - Moresapien
When despair is deliberately cultivated to stop people from acting - because people who believe nothing can change won't try to change anything.
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