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• the availability heuristic. • the misinformation effect. • the overconfidence phenomenon. concept of • deduction. • pragmatism. • dialectic thinking.
blindsight.
mnemonics.
to recall their mistaken judgments as times when they were almost right.
from experts.
put people in a bad mood.
this is known as
confirmation bias.
false memory.
• Memory involves backward reasoning. • Current feeling does not guide our recall. • Memory construction enables us to revise our own histories. • confidence. • underconfidence. • excessive pride. |
Social Psychology Robert C. Gates |