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Dormant ties offer the access to novel information that weak ties afford, but without the discomfort.
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51 |
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Speaking dominantly convinces group members that takers are powerful, but it stifles information sharing, preventing members from communicating good ideas.
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147 |
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Candid feedback from those you trust and respect creates a source of self-awareness, one that can help guard against skewered information or questionable assumptions.
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75 |
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There is a natural human tendency to dislike a person who brings us unpleasant information, even when that person did not cause the bad news.
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107 |
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…most of the time, we don’t want to guard against the information that social proof provides.
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If we can become sensitive to situations in which the social-proof autopilot is working with inaccurate information, we can disengage the mechanism and grasp the controls when necessary.
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191 |
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The tendency to fight for every liberty and against every restriction might be best understood… as a quest for information.
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Almost invariably, our response to banned information is to want to receive the information and to become more favorable toward it than we were before the ban.
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…information may not have to be censored for us to value it more; it need only be scarce… we will find a piece of information more persuasive if we think we can’t get it elsewhere.
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When people encounter a piece of information, they immediately become less likely to accept it if they view it as part of an effort to persuade them.
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