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The affect heuristic is a principle for making fast, perceptual judgments based on subjective impressions of goodness/badness. It can cause people to use one positive (or negative) fact about an object/action to judge the likely positivity or negativity of other facts about that object/action.

See also

  • Halo effect
  • Priming
  • Connotation
  • Affective death spiral
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67The Affect Heuristic
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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98The Trouble With "Good"
Scott Alexander
14y
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90Affective Death Spirals
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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84The Affect Heuristic, Sentiment, and Art[anonymous]13y
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77Resist the Happy Death Spiral
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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63The Halo Effect
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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30Special Status Needs Special Support
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
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25Failure By Affective Analogy
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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176Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
Scott Alexander
4y
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124Have no heroes, and no villains
PhilGoetz
13y
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109Guardians of Ayn Rand
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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98Superhero Bias
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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90The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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68Mere Messiahs
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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15Effects are correlated, policy outcomes are not, and multi-factor explanations are hard
Thomas Kehrenberg
1y
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