Paul Slovic

So I had kind of already made my decision about Sasha, and then system two came through and started giving me the logic, "Well, I can only do this once," or, "Well, this is once in a lifetime," was me using system two to build the case for, quite frankly, a decision I'd already made.

A psychologist named Paul Slovic, he calls this affect heuristic.

When we feel good about something, when system one gives us a green light, we judge its benefits as higher and its risks as lower.

Isn't that fascinating? That's what happens to your fee.

There's a psychological reason for that.

In two thousand, psychologist Paul Slovic at the University of Oregon published research on how people make decisions when emotions take over.

He called it the affect heuristic, the finding that when a person feels strongly about something, their brain skips the facts entirely.

It doesn't weigh the evidence.

None of this is backed by evidence.

All of their beliefs are backed by feelings.

Slovic found that the affect heuristic gets worse under fear and anger.

The more afraid or angry a person is, the more their brain abandons logic and runs on emotion alone.