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What Irony Emerges When Considering the Wartime Leadership of Abraham

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What irony emerges when considering the wartime leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?


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Category Hierarchies

Organizational systems that classify groups or objects into ranked categories based on shared characteristics or importance.

Representativeness Heuristic

A cognitive shortcut where the likelihood of an object belonging to a category is assessed based on how typical the object seems of the category.

Confirmation Bias

The inclination to seek out, comprehend, prioritize, and recall facts in a manner that corroborates one's established beliefs or conjectures.

Framing Effect

A cognitive bias where people decide on options based on whether the choices are presented with positive or negative connotations.

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