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fear

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

3 concepts

Availability Heuristic

We judge how likely something is based on how easily we can think of an example - not on how often it actually happens.

Intense public fear about a perceived threat, amplified by media, disproportionate to the actual danger.

Arguing that one small step will inevitably lead to a chain of increasingly extreme consequences, without evidence that the chain is likely.