A practical tour of the predictable thinking errors that propaganda, advertising, and feeds exploit — with concrete countermeasures drawn from Kahneman and Cialdini.
Section 01Scholarly Synthesis
Fast and Slow
Most errors come from the fast, automatic system mistaking fluency for truth. The slow system can override it but is lazy — so we build procedures, not just willpower.
Section 02Scholarly Synthesis
The High-Leverage Biases
Confirmation, availability, anchoring, tribe-framing, and the illusory-truth effect do most of the damage. Naming them is the first defense.
Section 03Scholarly Synthesis
Installing Friction
Seek disconfirming evidence on purpose, check base rates, separate claim from claimant, and slow down on anything pre-loaded with outrage.
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