{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Alcohol Minimalist: Mindful Drinking & Behavior Change","title":"Think Thursday: Why Familiar Feels True-When Thoughts Become Beliefs","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":926,"description":"What happens when a thought gets repeated so often that it stops feeling like a thought and starts feeling like a fact?\nIn 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.\nIn this episode:\nWhy repetition can make information feel more true\nThe difference between familiarity and evidence\nHow self-schemas shape what we notice and remember\nWhy we tend to collect evidence that supports existing beliefs\nHow repeated thoughts can quietly become identity statements\nWhy changing your thinking isn’t about forced positive affirmations\nHow to question old beliefs with more accuracy and curiosity\nA question to take with you:\n\nIs this something I know, or is this something I’ve practiced thinking?\nSometimes 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.\n\nResearch Mentioned\nHasher, Goldstein & Toppino — early research on the illusory truth effect\nDechêne et al. — meta-analysis on repetition and perceived truth\nLisa Fazio and colleagues — repetition and prior knowledge\nHazel Markus — self-schema research\nWilliam Swann — self-verification theory","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/zu3PtA3XzNKb2qSH95OKvfAaoixqds182Hao41kpkws/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wZjY5/NjVmY2Y2MGQ0NmMx/NGNiMzdiZGY0OTMz/OWQzMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}