Mind & Psychology
Cognition & Perception
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Explore anchoring, availability, hindsight, and motivated reasoning as recurring patterns in judgment and decision-making.
4 Articles
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Why an initial number can pull later estimates toward itself, what a new 2026 meta-analysis says about the size of the effect, and why not every random number becomes an anchor.
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Why ease of recall can stand in for actual frequency, when that shortcut works surprisingly well, and why the familiar “dramatic media risk” story is weaker than many textbooks imply.
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Why known outcomes reshape memory, probability and causal stories, and why “I knew it all along” can make learning from the past worse instead of better.
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How desired conclusions can influence search, scrutiny and interpretation, why this differs from ordinary confirmation bias, and why current research warns against calling every belief-consistent judgment irrational.
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