11. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Sleep Deprivation and Cognitive Bias
sleep deprived people are much worse at defending themselves intellectually so for example cults religious cults or new religious movements. People more likely to believe things if they make a sensible sounding story remember we're still going with the cluster of cognitive biases related to context and sense-making. Psychologists found that people were willing to pay more for terrorism travel insurance than for travel insurance even though that travel insurance paid for outcomes of terrorism as well.
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