The Lost ARC / Unit 11 ARC 253 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Distrust Filter
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The idea
The book describes distrust as a filter: once activated, it reads ambiguous actions as threatening and discounts evidence that would disprove it.
In practice
A neutral email read as hostile, and a genuine gesture of goodwill received with suspicion.
Where people slip
The book draws on Elizabeth Phelps's work on the amygdala and emotion; the filter's details are the book's own reading.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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