Motivated reasoning, social influence: simplicity, perceived self-interest, incongruity, confidence, empathy
anecdote, emotion
conspiracy, fake experts, impossible standards, logical fallacies, manufacture doubt
innumeracy
informational cascade
intuitive errors: inattention blindness, believe that our memories are more reliable then they are, tendency to think someone is competent if they are confident, assumption that things that occur together must be causally related,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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