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WEIRD people suffer more severely from Cognitive Dissonance and do a range of mental gymnastics to relieve their discomfort.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Indeed, unjustified extremism frequently results from a “crippled epistemology,” in which extremists react to a small subset of relevant information, coming mostly from one another.
Cass R. Sunstein • Conformity
rageful parts wanted to help with discerning who was safe.
Ph.D. Richard Schwartz • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
motivational theory.
David D. Burns • Feeling Good Together: The Secret to Making Troubled Relationships Work
Illusory correlation.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Data doesn’t change behavior; emotions do.
Karen Eber • The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories that Inform, Influence, and Inspire
Behaviorism presents a double impediment to this development. It substitutes conditioning for genuine self-management, and it uses an array of rewards and punishments to elicit the desired behavior, most of which have as their subtext the implied threat of nonbelonging. The need to belong to coherent social groups is a core driver of human behavior
... See moreCarol Sanford • No More Gold Stars: Regenerating Capacity to Think for Ourselves
But without it, the place for our blame suddenly vanishes, and even the most terrifying sociopaths begin to seem like victims themselves.
Sam Harris • Free Will
(the “fundamental attribution” effect).