The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 2,888 atoms across 3 types and 2 molecules
The amygdala evaluates emotional significance of stimuli before conscious awareness, and humans systematically use these pre-conscious emotional evaluations as heuristic substitutes for complex cognitive judgments, producing systematic distortions in probability and severity assessments.
Humans exhibit systematic overconfidence across domains, with subjective confidence consistently exceeding objective accuracy in three distinct forms—overestimation of absolute performance, overplacement relative to others, and overprecision of confidence intervals—that behave differently across task difficulty levels.