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One of the significant discoveries of cognitive psychologists in recent decades is that switching from one task to another is effortful, especially under time pressure.
Interesting. Multitasking Is a myth.
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.
Too much concern about how well one is doing in a task sometimes disrupts performance by loading short-term memory with pointless anxious thoughts.
self-control requires attention and effort.
if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion.
many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions. They apparently find cognitive effort at least mildly unpleasant and avoid it as much as possible.
Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
This remarkable priming phenomenon—the influencing of an action by the idea—is known as the ideomotor effect.
And gaslightinvg in modern sinister contexts
“act calm and kind regardless of how you feel” is very good advice: you are likely to be rewarded by actually feeling calm and kind.
Interesting. Fake it till you make it has a scientific basis after all
Money-primed people are also more selfish: they were much less willing to spend time helping
the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
Repeat a lie long enough... Gaslighting...
if your message is to be printed, use high-quality paper to maximize the contrast between characters and their background. If you use color, you are more likely to be believed if your text is printed in bright blue or red than in middling shades of green, yellow, or pale blue.
Good tip for resume writig
do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
AI to the rescue
mere exposure effect is actually stronger for stimuli that the individual never consciously sees.
Subliminal Messaging
Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.
Interesting. But somehow knew this intuitively
happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance:
Explains why working angry gets better ressults for me.
Cognitive ease is both a cause and a consequence of a pleasant feeling.
Makes sense to keep the work environment uncomfortable for employees then.
“we perceive the world of objects as essentially separate from the world of minds, making it possible for us to envision soulless bodies and bodiless souls.”
Interesting. Is this then all that religion actually is. A giant misconception after all?
an immaterial divinity is the ultimate cause of the physical world, and immortal souls temporarily control our bodies while we live and leave them behind as we die.
The crux of all religious thought In a nutshell?!
Very little repetition is needed for a new experience to feel normal!”
And as newer experiences dwindle in life, the surprises dwindle as well making life seem boringv and uninteresting
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
Explains why we believe what we know to be lies
politically uninformed voters who watch a great deal of television.
Prety much describes most of US & India nowadays
