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Weird Factors That Distort Your Thinking & How Animals Perceive the World

Something You Should Know

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The Primacy Effect

There's this thing called the primacy effect, which is which whatever you happen to believe first then immediately attaches and even gives you evidence that persists if your original evidence is removed. A study done by abruner and potter where they showed people pictures that were out of focus, so that you could not discern what the picture was, and asked people to guess what it was a picture of. And people stuck with their original guesses as to what the photo was - even when it became more in focus. This is probably biggest, baddest cognitive property. I'm goingto call it a property bcause is not always a defect that we have, and it explains a lot of what human

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