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People Tend to Be More Alert and Responsive to Evidence

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People tend to be more alert and responsive to evidence that supports their preexisting notions and beliefs than to evidence that challenges them.This effect is called


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Electronic Safety Alert Device

A device designed to send alerts or calls for help in emergency scenarios.

Medical Problems

Issues or conditions that affect an individual's physical well-being and require professional medical attention.

False Consensus Effect

A cognitive bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their beliefs or opinions are typical of those of others.

Freud's Concept

Ideas and theories developed by Sigmund Freud that focus on the unconscious mind, psychosexual stages, and the significance of dreams.

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