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

7 concepts

Cognitive Bias

Affect Heuristic 

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

Logical Fallacy

Appeal to Nature 

Arguing that something is good because it's natural, or bad because it's artificial - as though nature is always benign.

Manipulation Tactic

Astroturfing 

Creating the appearance of widespread grassroots support for a position when the support is manufactured, funded, or coordinated from above.

Cognitive Bias

Contrast Effect 

The tendency for your judgement of something to shift depending on what you compare it to.

Cognitive Bias

Frequency Illusion 

Once you notice something for the first time, you suddenly seem to see it everywhere - not because it's more common, but because you're now looking for it.

Cultural Influence

Manufacturing Desire 

The systematic creation of wants that didn't previously exist, turning luxuries into perceived necessities.

Cognitive Bias

Reactance 

The instinct to resist or do the opposite when you feel your freedom of choice is being threatened or taken away.