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Think Thursday: Why Familiar Feels True-When Thoughts Become Beliefs

What happens when a thought gets repeated so often that it stops feeling like a thought and starts feeling like a fact?

In this Think Thursday episode, Molly explores the illusory truth effect, processing fluency, self-schemas, and self-verification to explain why familiar ideas can feel more believable simply because we’ve practiced thinking them over and over.

In this episode:

Why repetition can make information feel more true
The difference between familiarity and evidence
How self-schemas shape what we notice and remember
Why we tend to collect evidence that supports existing beliefs
How repeated thoughts can quietly become identity statements
Why changing your thinking isn’t about forced positive affirmations
How to question old beliefs with more accuracy and curiosity

A question to take with you:

Is this something I know, or is this something I’ve practiced thinking?

Sometimes behavior change begins not with immediately creating a new belief, but with realizing that an old one may never have been a fact in the first place.

Research Mentioned

Hasher, Goldstein & Toppino — early research on the illusory truth effect
Dechêne et al. — meta-analysis on repetition and perceived truth
Lisa Fazio and colleagues — repetition and prior knowledge
Hazel Markus — self-schema research
William Swann — self-verification theory

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