Certainty Trap: How the Feeling of Knowing Betrays Us

He was absolutely sure. He was absolutely wrong.On a Tuesday in March, Rayford Aquirre looked the woman he loved in the eye and said, "e;I know."e; He had assembled the evidence—text messages, timestamps, a pattern that proved beyond doubt that she had betrayed him. The certainty felt like clarity. It felt like truth. It was a feeling, and the feeling lied.She left. Not because of the betrayal he ...