Meaning of knee-jerking | Babel Free

Definitions

Reacting instantaneously and without thought.

uncountable

Examples

“How much of the positive response was liberal knee-jerking to be forgotten the next day?”

“I think it was Haidt who used Kahneman’s two systems view to say that we quickly rise to judgments based on unconscious gut reads and then “reason” to concoct or confabulate an after the fact justification for our “moral” kneejerking.”

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