The Blue Dot Effect: Why We Overweight the Salient

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In Manson's blue dot experiment, participants fixated on a single blue dot in a sea of red ones and rated it as more important than the larger, more relevant mass around it. The bias is not about size but salience — unusual features hijack attention and inflate their perceived weight.

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