Tag
history
Entries tagged with history - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.
5 concepts
Cultural Influence
Bread and Circuses
Keeping a population content through entertainment and material comfort so they don't question the systems they live under.
Cultural InfluenceCollective Amnesia
How societies forget inconvenient histories, allowing harmful patterns to repeat unchallenged.
Cognitive BiasHindsight Bias
The tendency to believe, after an event has occurred, that you knew it was going to happen all along.
Psychological PhenomenonObedience to Authority
The tendency for people to comply with instructions from a perceived authority figure, even when those instructions conflict with their own conscience.
Psychological PhenomenonVictim-Perpetrator Cycle
Groups that have suffered persecution can, once they gain power, go on to persecute others - often using their past suffering as justification.