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I'm very interested in cognitive biases, some of the writing in that area has some interesting takeaways on the pitfalls of memory:

- _Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)_ - Tavris & Aronson

- _Thinking, Fast and Slow_ - Kahneman

Both of these are more "popular science" writing than "solid scientific" writing, however.

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I'm aware of how usefull and mind-opening Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" is. However one should know that a lot of the experiments done to corroborate the books arguments are underpowered and people were unable to replicate a bunch of them. So don't take the books ideas too seriously and allow for much more nuance than the arguments allows.

100%. I take many of the specific results with a grain of salt but I think the general themes are well founded. I think about WYSIATI every day

> WYSIATI

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