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Information Foraging Theory
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Colin Wright
3:07
Moral Calm
To “fearmonger” is to intentionally stoke fear in someone (or many someones) by hyperbolizing a (real or made-up) threat.
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Colin Wright
Lusory Attitude
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Colin Wright
3:45
Visual Clutter
It’s long been understood that cluttered spaces—whether that means a thronging, hubbub-laden office or a messy bedroom—influence how we think, remember…
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Colin Wright
Experiential Chronoception
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Colin Wright
3:01
Naïve Realism
Our perception is influenced by all sorts of things, from where we happen to be standing (and how tall we are, and how good our eyesight is) when…
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Colin Wright
Mistruths
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Colin Wright
5:24
Cognitive Reflection and Misinformation
The concepts of System 1 and System 2 thinking—popularized by Daniel Kahneman in his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow—refer to our dual capacity to think…
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Colin Wright
Reversal Test
The “status quo bias” refers to a collection of psychological leanings that favor the current default over alternative permutations (even those that…
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Colin Wright
Narcissism of Small Differences
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Colin Wright
2:46
Intersubjective Realities
Across a range of fields, but especially (and most fundamentally) epistemology, “subjective” refers to things that are centered on an…
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Colin Wright
Sleep and Memory
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