A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

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Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist (1934-2024). With Amos Tversky founded the heuristics-and-biases program and prospect theory, won the 2002 Nobel in Economics, and popularized dual-process thought in Thinking Fast and Slow.
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