Gunjan

“the less people act, because they don’t feel as responsible than if they had been alone and that everything depended on them. This mechanism is called the bystander effect: I think that someone else will act, but that someone else will think the same, so in the end nobody acts. In”
― Albert Moukheiber, Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions

“when information contradicts your preferences, your convictions, your beliefs or your behaviours, you feel a state of tension which breaks your homeostasis. This state was theorized by Leon Festiger,30 an American psychologist, sixty years ago. He named it cognitive dissonance.”
― Albert Moukheiber, Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions

“Gaslighting8 is another form of cognitive hijacking which leans on memory manipulation: it consists in making a victim doubt their memory or their actual mental health by presenting some facts in a truncated manner, editing a few elements of the original memory, telling them they’ve made it all up, or that they’re losing their mind. This form of emotional abuse can take many shapes.”
― Albert Moukheiber, Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions

“Stress and anxiety influence our way of reducing the ambiguity of the world around us, as well as, therefore, our biases. Studies have shown that people with anxiety21 reduce the ambiguity of certain words in a more negative manner than others. If we ask someone with anxiety what the word “mug” means, they will have a tendency to answer it means to attack (as opposed to the more neutral synonym for “cup” or slang for “face”). This is what we call interpretation bias.”
― Albert Moukheiber, Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions