Listen "Here's Why Automaticity Is Real Actually"
Episode Synopsis
"Literal Banana" on Carcinization writes Against Automaticity, which they describe as: An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the "emotional inception" model of advertising, most "cognitive biases," and any field with "behavioral" in its name are not real. My summary (as always, read the real thing to keep me honest): for a lot of the '90s and '00s, social scientists were engaged in ttthe project of proving "automaticity", the claim that most human decisions are unconscious/unreasoned/automatic and therefore bad. Cognitive biases, social priming, advertising science, social contagion research, "nudges", etc, were all part of this grand agenda. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/heres-why-automaticity-is-real-actually
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