How much of the positive response was liberal knee-jerking to be forgotten the next day?
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Knee-jerking
Synonyms for "knee-jerking"
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I think it was Haidt who used Kahneman’s two systems view to say that we quickly rise to judgments based on unconscious gut reads and then “reason” to concoct or confabulate an after the fact justification for our “moral” kneejerking.
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