‘As long as you keep repeating something, it doesn't matter what you say’— Here’s how Donald Trump used the illusory truth effect to alter public opinion and how the media can better tackle false claims without amplifying them | NowThis

Illusory Motion Op Art: take a close look at the colored circles- do you see motion? Most see some kind of wispy flow within the colored bands of this static image. The artist is Isia Leviant, and this is a signed serigraph of his famous Enigma series that has inspired years of psychological and physiological research to understand how this perception of motion is generated in such Op Art. Hand signed small editions of Enigma such as this one were part of a 1985 Lufthansa airline promotion for t

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence. | After Skool