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Interlude LXXXIX: Salience | Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Availability Heuristic, Cognitive Bias, Vividness, and Decision-Making

Podcast: The Observable Unknown · Dr. Juan Carlos Rey

Opublikowano: 2026-09-15

Why can one insult outweigh twenty compliments? Why can a single frightening headline suddenly make the world feel more dangerous? Why does one awkward moment replay for hours while a hundred ordinary successes barely register? And why does the thing that feels most important so often become confused with the thing that actually matters most? In Interlude LXXXIX of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines salience, the psychological force that allows one vivid fact, image, memory, threat, success, failure, or emotional event to dominate judgment far beyond its proper...