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Backfire Effect
A reported pattern in which correcting a false belief makes some people believe it more strongly, now contested because large replications rarely find it.
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Affect Heuristic
A mental shortcut in which a quick good or bad feeling about something is used as information when judging its risk, benefit or value.
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Decision Fatigue
The claim that choices get worse after many decisions in a row, so people pick the easiest option.
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Miller's Law
George Miller's 1956 finding that immediate memory holds about seven chunks of information, not seven separate items.

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Backfire Effect

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