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The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)
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“He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation.”
Tahl Raz • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
In psychology there are at least two biases that drive this pattern. One is confirmation bias:23 seeing what we expect to see. The other is desirability bias:24 seeing what we want to see. These biases don’t just prevent us from applying our intelligence. They can actually contort our intelligence into a weapon against the truth.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Social Justice approaches that focus solely on group identity and neglect individuality and universality are doomed to fail for the simple reasons that people are individuals and share a common human nature.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
My favorite bias is the “I’m not biased”25 bias, in which people believe they’re more objective than others. It turns out that smart people are more likely to fall into this trap.26
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
the people adopted just enough of the majority stance to be seen as acceptable members of the town.
Todd Rose • Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
We are all subject to reactions that researchers call the “halo effect.”
Francine Shapiro • Getting Past Your Past
“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi,” she wrote. They were secure enough to be good natured and open to new ideas, and they believed so completely in the promise of American democracy that they would defend it with their lives, even if they seemed too easygoing to join a struggle. “But the frustrated and humiliated intellec
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