Why Rational Decisions Feel Emotionally Wrong
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Why Rational Decisions Feel Emotionally Wrong

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 28 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Rational decisions feel wrong because your brain evolved for survival, not optimization. Emotions trigger fast but logic requires slow deliberation.

Factually incorrectMisleading wording

What was corrected

What the page claimed

The article attributed AAR's development directly to the Center for Army Lessons Learned and presented an inferential characterization of Tetlock's work as his specific documented finding.

What was corrected

Corrected the AAR institutional history and softened the Tetlock attribution to reflect it as a pattern consistent with his research rather than a precise quoted finding.

Why this is better

AAR predates CALL's founding and was refined rather than originated by it; the Tetlock claim was a reasonable inference stated as a specific finding. Corrections add precision rather than adding new sources.

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