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manifestations of fast, unconscious processing and slow, conscious processing, aka Kahneman's System 1 and System 2
Updated on Sep 04, 16
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Describes quite a few studies on IAT, prejudice, creativity, interventions to (temporarily) reduce stereotyping and prejudiced responding.
There are far more than 12 cognitive biases, but this one important set of them
Controversy over whether Bargh's priming effects are real and replicable is discussed. Some replications work, others fail. What's going on here? Comments also worth reading.
Struggling to read material printed in a difficult-to-read font reduces confirmation bias - by slowing down the fast unconscious response, it gave the conscious response more time to counteract the bias, the authors propose. People consider the opposing point of view and become more skeptical about their own, critically engaging in both sides of an argument.
Describes the Default Mode Network (involved in internally focused tasks such as recalling personal memories, daydreaming, sleeping, imagining the future, taking the perspective of others) and the Executive Attention Network, involved when attention is focused outwards, solving problems, taking tests, processing the external world. Researchers examining people in fMRIs find that when one is active, the other appears to be inactive, as if there is a kind of mutual inhibition between them.
Excerpt from book Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman
he research finds that a statement in the presence of images or other additional information enhances people’s feelings of truthiness, even when they don’t provide any evidence the statement is true. T
"When the brain fires up the network of neurons that allows us to empathize, it suppresses the network used for analysis."
We hear far more about people who win lotteries than people who don't, so we assume that the odds of winning are much greater than they really are. This is true for many other events, as well. Information that is easy to recall, or obvious, or vivid, it affects our ability to judge the odds that something will happen.
There are numerous psychological factors that get in the way of accepting, and even more, doing anything to slow, global climate change. Unconscious use of cues, confirmation bias, framing, ineffectiveness of delayed gratification, social competition, liberal/conservative thinking are some.
People who are more intelligent are MORE likely to rely on their initial, quick, intuitive response and give wrong answers than people who are less intelligent. No one is exempt from cognitive biases, even researchers like Kahneman who have studied them for 40 years.
The irrationality of beliefs about "tempting fate." Don't say, it looks like we have shut out the other team" prematurely, because that will jinx us and cause someone on the other team to score. Really? Well, many of us act as if we believe that. Research on the cognitions involved in tempting fate.
Did the menu "engineers" read Ariely or Kahneman? The tactic of putting a very expensive dish at the top of a list of more moderately priced (but still expensive) items seems to come right from the anchoring/contrast effect research.
Classic paper on how heuristics and biases influence judgment.
Science, 185, Sept 27, 1974
62 items | 3 visits
manifestations of fast, unconscious processing and slow, conscious processing, aka Kahneman's System 1 and System 2
Updated on Sep 04, 16
Created on Apr 24, 12
Category: Schools & Education
URL: