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Khan Academy: Cognitive Biases: Alief

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In this video, the psychologist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the philosopher Tamar Gendler'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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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
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