“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
Pam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Pam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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