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Listener discretion is advised. Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm No. I'm Thank you. There's something peculiar about shocking news.

The more unbelievable it sounds, the more likely we are to cling to the very first version we hear.

Psychologists call it anchoring bias. Psychologists call it anchoring bias. Our minds grab hold of that first story like a life raft and then reshape the details to fit.

In criminal cases, this can happen fast. A teenager stabs his mother and and the narrative writes his self. Violent kid,

no respect for authority. A tragedy everyone saw coming. Before we hear a word from the defense,

the picture is already painted, and the more complex the truth really is, the harder it becomes to shake that first

impression, especially when the story feels so cut and dried, so obvious, that to question it seems

absurd. But what if that version was wrong, or at least incomplete?

What if the first version blinds us from the truth?

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