Persuasion, Influence, Bias, Intuitive Errors

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Blockchain & Decentralized Identity Architect — Internet Cryptography Pioneer — Co-author TLS Security Standard — Collaborative Tools & Patterns

Motivated reasoning, social influence: simplicity, perceived self-interest, incongruity, confidence, empathy

anecdote, emotion

conspiracy, fake experts, impossible standards, logical fallacies, manufacture doubt

innumeracy

informational cascade

intuitive errors: inattention blindness, believe that our memories are more reliable then they are, tendency to think someone is competent if they are confident, assumption that things that occur together must be causally related,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

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