The cheerleader effect, or group-attractiveness effect, is a tendency to value appearances based on a comparative assessment with the surroundings. Certain traits will appear more attractive due to the perceived amplification from contrast. When looked at individually they no longer get the contrasting cheerleader effect. Surprisingly, this is a new term, from a 2008 “How I Met Your Mother” episode, […]
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The bias blind spot is how it’s easier to see others engage in cognitive biases, as opposed to seeing it within ourselves. Just as it is when we are thinking of a problem and another perspective can see something we missed, so too does the recognition of biases. It’s easier to see what is external to us (others) than to […]
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Belief is powerful. The belief bias is to give value, weight, strength and importance to an argument, not based on the argument being valid, but based on the conclusion that is already believed to be possible, probable or true. If we agree with a view, we accept the datapoints that support that position. We are biased towards the believability of […]
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Our brain and overall consciousness, has an uncanny ability to work through data, connect relevant pieces, and figure things out. What’s more, is that most of this work is done without any conscious involvement. Consciousness as a whole, includes the active conscious and the passive unconscious processing capacities that allow us to be with-knowledge, i.e con-science, con-scious, con-sciousness. Much of […]
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Most of us lack an understanding of how to think correctly, and how words are defined as well. Belief is not truth, despite how many people erroneously think and confuse the two. Recognizing the difference is crucial, yet most people do not. Truth is synonymous with reality/existence. Latin veritas (truth), it is veracious, it has veracity, it is verifiable, in […]
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Misinformation (falsity) about an event that is accepted as truth makes it more difficult to recall the original details of the event as they actually happened. The falsity is the accepted visible reality, while the underlying details are covered over. sourceThis is the misinformation effect, where recall of the memories of an event become less accurate because of post-event information, […]
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Stream or Download Audio (15m) Or just watch the video: I also did a text-to-speech speech-to-text, but it’s horrible and I don’t want to edit it to figure out what is written… LOL. Here is some text from previous work about this (True Unity is Based in Morality): The degree of truth, especially Moral Truth, that is embodied […]
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When you think of standing up for the truth of a fact, or of what’s really right in the world, you have to think of it as standing up for yourself. Follow with me here… If others believe falsity, it impacts us because those people accept a false reality, and live according to that unreality, essentially bringing false ways of […]
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New Years brings a focus on change. Doing something new. But, what if there was actually more power, not in doing something new, but in stopping to do something old that you are currently doing? There are many injustices, wrongdoings and immoralities in the world. Many things that are wrong are being supported by many of us, even if we’re […]
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If you just take people who are conditioned into a certain way of living, and expect them to change and function a different way, without teaching them and helping them “unlearn what they have learned”, as Yoda says, then it’s not going to work too well. Giving people complete freedom, without the knowledge and responsibility developed… does not produce a […]
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