When Alfred Dreyfus appeared before the French public for questioning, he answered with the calm, controlled demeanor drilled into him by military training. Because the public expected an innocent man to protest loudly, that very composure was taken as a sign of guilt. The Dreyfus affair is now cited as a textbook example of Othello's Error — judging innocence by the wrong behavioral cues.
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