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emotions

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

3 concepts

Cognitive Bias

Affect Heuristic 

When your feelings about something shape what you believe to be true about it.

Psychological Phenomenon

Desensitisation 

When repeated exposure to something shocking, disturbing, or morally uncomfortable gradually reduces your emotional response to it - until it barely registers at all.

Psychological Phenomenon

Moral Hypocrisy Judgement 

We punish the contradiction between someone's stated values and their behaviour more harshly than we punish the behaviour alone.