Audience Priming via Trigger Warnings

Summary

The practice of issuing severe content warnings before presenting allegations, which appears to create expectation bias that makes audiences more receptive to interpreting ambiguous content as confirming the warned-about harm.

Episodes (1)

Jun 28, 2026

Anatomy of a Smear

An explainer episode analyzing how a mundane conversation between Psyche and a guest named Amber about a hypothetical 26-year-old scenario was systematically distorted into severe criminal allegations including child endangerment, grooming, drug trafficking, and extortion.

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