CRITICAL THINKING – Cognitive Biases: Alief
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In this video, the psychologist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the philosopher Tamar Gendler (Yale University)’s concept of alief — an automatic or habitual mental attitude. The video discusses why aliefs differ from beliefs and how aliefs can affect our important decisions more than we expect.
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