Under Construction · Psychological Warfare
The architecture of plausible deniability.
A reading-room and case-file series on the psychological tactics used to admit nothing while appearing to admit everything: motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, doctrine on military information support, and the linguistic moves that recur across the public record.
- · Kunda (1990) — The case for motivated reasoning, Psychological Bulletin
- · Nickerson (1998) — Confirmation bias: a ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises
- · Heuer (1999) — Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence)
- · U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff — Military Information Support Operations (JP 3‑13.2)
- · Habermas — The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere