MAGA Is All Feelings and No Facts
If you watched the video, you already know the psychological reason MAGA supporters say things with total confidence that are completely made up. This Substack goes deeper into the research, the real-world mechanics, and why this one cognitive bias explains how the entire right-wing information ecosystem operates.
What Is the Affect Heuristic?
Paul Slovic is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon and the founder of Decision Research, a nonprofit research institute in Eugene, Oregon. He has spent over five decades studying how people make decisions under conditions of risk and…
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