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Author: Guest author Berkeley Dietvorst, with Uri

[75] Intentionally Biased: People Purposely Don't Ignore Information They "Should" Ignore

Posted on January 29, 2019February 12, 2020 by Guest author Berkeley Dietvorst, with Uri

You can’t un-ring a bell. Once people receive information, even if it is taken back, they cannot disregard it. Teachers cannot imagine what novice students don’t know, juries cannot follow instructions to disregard evidence, negotiators cannot take the perspective of their counterpart who does not know what they know, etc. People exhibit “Outcome bias”, “hindsight…

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