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Feature Positive Effect

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Feature Positive Effect

We overestimate the importance of information that is most easily available to us, not the most relevant.¹

Allison, Scott T., and David M. Messick. “The Feature-Positive Effect, Attitude Strength, and Degree of Perceived Consensus.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 14, no. 2 (June 1988): 231–41. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167288142002. ↩