> Or another example: if you've ever looked at someone who behaved badly, and said you wouldn't have done that? Is where OP perhaps got fundamental attribution

> Or another example: if you've ever looked at someone who behaved badly, and said you wouldn't have done that? Is where OP perhaps got fundamental attribution error from. > ...you're probably more successful than a lot of people, and I bet you think your hard work had something to do with it. Is very similar to the myth of meritocracy some folks believe in. --- In sum, you intend to point out that cognitive biases (or perhaps, cognitive dissonance) are also a form of magical thinking? Like OP, I find it hard to reconcile that with LSD/DNA discovery. In my view, biases mostly fool you; but they don't quite emerge out of an insight (magical thinking), as the article describes it.