1 | Carol Tavris on Mistakes, Justification, and Cognitive Dissonance
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Pyramid of Choice
There's almost an inverse correlation in our ability to deal with these cognitive biases with how smart somebody is, their intelligence or their level of self esteem. If the better you are at reasoning, the better it turns out you are at reconciling these dissodances in a way that doesn't change your mind. So many people have found this metaphor to be really helpful in their lives,. We call it in the book the pyramid of choice. And ah, as i say, it's been very touching to find people have written it said, this really works for me. It started because somebody did a study a long time ago of a school children. The second you make that decision, even impuls
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