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Velisar's avatar

Cognitive load makes people also prone to all sorts of attribution errors and anchoring (see Gilbert 1989, 90 etc).It is probably a joke, but that basically means "bring it on, System 1!" 

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I immediately think of "stress positions" and other features of interrogation. The purpose in interrogation is to get information that the possessor doesn't want to give up accurately. Putting this person in a situation where his mind is highly occupied with other things (dealing with fear of drowing, falling, and so on) presumably makes him a LOT less clever at telling lies that will mask the truth.

If the mind is busy doing other stuff, it doesn't have bandwidth to lie. Who knew.

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