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How the Illusory Truth Effect Shapes Office Beliefs
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Why do false claims about your work or your company start to feel true after enough repetitions? Lucas and Luna dig into the illusory truth effect and how it plays out in office politics, performance reviews, and everyday workplace gossip. Using the durable example of a repeated rumor about a colleague, they explain why your brain mistakes familiarity for accuracy, and how to spot the echo chamber before it distorts your decisions. They also share practical tactics for pushing back on a repeated falsehood without starting a fight, and why self-narratives about your own career can quietly harden into false beliefs. If you've ever wondered why everyone 'knows' something at work that just isn't true, this episode gives you the psychological mechanism and the counter-strategy.