Post No.: 0121 Furrywisepuppy says: Our expectations and preconceptions can shape or override our sensory data. For example, in experiments, unless there are glaring differences in taste between two different wines, the higher-priced wine will be deemed more … Read More
Post No.: 0099 Furrywisepuppy says: Whereas mathematical symbolic language must be precise (e.g. ‘A > B’ should mean nothing else except ‘the value of A is greater than the value of B’) – everyday language can often be … Read More
Post No.: 0090 Furrywisepuppy says: The ‘wisdom of the crowd’ or ‘collective wisdom’ works when individuals may greatly over-estimate or greatly under-estimate answers to a question, such as ‘how heavy is this cow?’, and therefore if the sample … Read More
Post No.: 0085 Furrywisepuppy says: Instincts (or intuitions, gut feelings, hunches or whatever you want to call them) and other effortless, unconscious mental heuristic processes have their benefits for sure e.g. when we truly only have a literal … Read More
Post No.: 0078 Furrywisepuppy says: You’d think that everyone considers all of the information presented to them before making rational decisions based on this information, but people tend to actually rely on a few mental shortcuts… Reciprocity … Read More
Post No.: 0073 Furrywisepuppy says: Research on this area has mostly been in ‘Western’ countries so cultural differences may or may not present different data but, relative to other people concerning many desirable traits, most people think they’re … Read More
Post No.: 0057 Furrywisepuppy says: In the context of psychology, and first coined by behavioural economists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky – ‘system one’ (or ‘type one’) processes describe our fast, automatic and effortless subconscious or unconscious instincts … Read More
Post No.: 0038 Furrywisepuppy says: ‘Personality’ is that pattern of characteristic thoughts, feelings and behaviours that distinguishes one person from another, and that persists over time and situations. For a long time now, many psychologists have used … Read More
Post No.: 0019 Furrywisepuppy says: Human cognitive biases explain so much about human social squabbles, divisions and conflicts. They help explain why nearly everyone thinks they’re right and everyone who disagrees with oneself is wrong, why everyone thinks … Read More
Post No.: 0008 Furrywisepuppy says: Placing our eyes onto something is no guarantee of seeing, and hearing something is no guarantee of listening, for instance. And never mind that we may look but not see if we’re not … Read More
