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thin slicing

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  • MaryW commented on the word thin slicing

    Social psychologists have shown that, with the barest information, people can make judgments about others rapidly and effortlessly. And yet such fleeting impressions, or thin slicing, as it is known, can have a profound effect on our decisions. . . . Humans are exquisitely sensitive to judging others, even though we are often unable to say exactly what it is about them we are noticing.
    Bruce M. Hood, The Science of Superstition: How the Developing Brain Creates Supernatural Beliefs (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), p. 25 (former title: SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable)

    December 26, 2016