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We're Not Aware Of Changing Our Minds Even When We Do Change Our Minds. And Most People, After They Change Their Minds, Reconstruct Their Past Opinion - They Believe They Always Thought That.

Doubts Are Suppressed By Groups... But Remember That The Internal Incentives That Shape How The Group Perceives Risks And Rewards May Be Very Different From The Reality Of The Risks And Rewards In The External Marketplace. Those Incentives Can Distort Risk Perception.

We Are Often Confident Even When We Are Wrong, And An Objective Observer Is More Likely To Detect Our Errors Than We Are.

We Associate Leadership With Decisiveness. That Perception Of Leadership Pushes People To Make Decisions Fairly Quickly, Lest They Be Seen As Dithering And Indecisive.

Economists Think About What People Ought To Do. Psychologists Watch What They Actually Do.