psychology

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Essays

the constant error

essay drafting 2026-08-07 · intelligence-tradecraft, source-evaluation, cognitive-bias, psychology, history-of-science

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Thorndike (1920) found officers' trait ratings 'too high and too even' to be independent judgments, naming the global-impression bleed the 'halo' (later crystallized as the 'halo effect')

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · epistemics, cognitive-bias, source-evaluation, psychology, history-of-science
Thorndike's 1920 halo effect is the century-old mechanism behind the vault's source-reliability/credibility bipartite pair

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-03 · epistemics, cognitive-bias, source-evaluation, psychology, history-of-science
The Fresh Start Effect triggers goal initiation at temporal-landmark onset, but only when the landmark is subjectively framed as a new beginning

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · psychology, fresh-start-effect, temporal-landmark, self-rewiring, cross-domain-analogy