Why We’re Overconfident When Things Are Hard Why is our confidence disproportionate to the difficulty of a task? Imagine taking two quizzes. The first is easy. You’re sure you scored…
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When One Good Trait Colors Everything Else Why do positive impressions produced in one area positively influence our opinions in another area? Imagine you meet someone who is confident, attractive,…
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Why do we forget information that we just looked up? Why We Forget What We Can Easily Look Up Imagine someone tells you an interesting fact: “The capital of Mongolia…
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Why Random Events Don’t Owe You a Correction Why do we think a random event is more or less likely to occur if it happened several times in the past?…
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Why We Blame People Too Quickly Why do we underestimate the influence of the situation on people’s behavior? Have you ever seen someone driving aggressively and thought, “What a terrible…