[Amanda Eagleson](/content/author/amanda/ "Amanda Eagleson"/index.html)January 29, 2022

Repetition and Truth: Understanding Illusory Truth Effect

We have touched on many cognitive biases in Optimistic Learner; Implicit Bias, Confirmation Bias, Optimism Bias, and Ingroup Bias. These…


[Amanda Eagleson](/content/author/amanda/ "Amanda Eagleson"/index.html)December 14, 2021

Changing Audience Expectations: Celebrity, Social Media, and Parasocial Relationships

The term ‘Parasocial Relationship’ was, until recently, somewhat confined to discourse in Sociology departments. It was coined by Horton and…