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accountability

Entries tagged with accountability - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

5 concepts

Manipulation Tactic

DARVO 

A manipulation pattern where the offender denies wrongdoing, attacks the accuser, and reverses victim and offender roles.

Cognitive Bias

Hindsight Bias 

The tendency to believe, after an event has occurred, that you knew it was going to happen all along.

Political Theory

Regulatory Capture 

When the agencies meant to regulate an industry end up serving its interests instead.

Manipulation Tactic

Salami Tactics 

Achieving a large objective by slicing it into small, individually insignificant steps that each seem too minor to resist.

Political Theory

The Ratchet Effect 

When temporary expansions of power become permanent - because the emergency passes but the authority never gets handed back.