" The confirmatory bias of System 1" , he says, in short, " favors uncritical acceptance of suggestions and exaggerations of the likelihood of extreme and improbable events."
His mind at this period was curiously uncritical; when he accepted a moral ideal he swallowed it whole without stopping to think whether it was quite digestible.
Mother and daughter adored each other and revered their son and brother; and Archer loved them with a tenderness made compunctious and uncritical by the sense of their exaggerated admiration, and by his secret satisfaction in it.