Festinger & Carlsmith's classic 1959 study, but explained as if your brain is a PR department desperately spinning bad decisions into genius moves. Your Brain Has a PR Department (And It's Terrible) Your brain lies to you. Not occasionally, not in rare edge cases, not only when you've had four espressos and are doom-scrolling at 1am. It lies to you constantly , with the breezy confidence of a press secretary who knows the cameras are rolling and has decided that the truth is

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When we see persistent social problems like homelessness, crime, or poor health outcomes, our first instinct is often to look for the cause within the individual. We might think in terms of poor choices, a lack of motivation, or personal failings . This view feels intuitive because it preserves the illusion of control: if the person changed, the outcome would change . But while individual factors certainly play a role, this view misses the bigger, and often more powerful, pic