deftly, instantly reframing the entire situation, backstory and everything, to make the new view more plausible.
Yes.
It’s related to that bias/failure mode (forget its name) of thinking that positive traits are all correlated—that if advocate’s position A is good, everything about it must be good, or something to that effect.
You probably mean the halo effect, though I don’t think that would quite explain what happened.
Yes.
You probably mean the halo effect, though I don’t think that would quite explain what happened.