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Is there a mental condition that makes people unconditionally gullible?
Some neurodegenerative diseases cause extreme gullibility, in particular Alzheimer
Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the scientists were able to determine which parts of the brain govern a ...
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Is there a mental condition that makes people unconditionally gullible?
Worldbuilding may have beaten you to this: https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/99881/15591
Williams Syndrome is not, strictly-speaking a purely mental condition. It is "caused by a genetic ...
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Easy-to-use simulations of human behavior
Nicky Case is a tough act to follow, but there are a lot of simulations available for a variety of different theories in social psychology and behavioural economics. As such, I won't try to list them ...
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Bias distrusting area of expertise while implicitly trusting other domains?
I found what I was looking for. It's called the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect:
... You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know
well. ... you read with exasperation or amusement the ...
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World Value Survey, trust, and China
The data for the World Values Survey appears to be collected by simple asking people "Do you or do you not agree that most people can be trusted" (as explained here: https://ourworldindata....
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Do readers consider the passive voice as more authoritative?
Short answer
I haven't found scientific literature on it. Non-scientific sources generally do seem to acknowledge that the passive voice radiates authority.
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To answer the question if ...
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