The bandwagon effect represents the phenomena of the increasing adoption of beliefs, ideas, fads, trends, fashions, styles, and behaviors as more people accept it. The more something becomes popularized by others, the more likely even more people will adopt it into their own lives. The term “bandwagon” is used because of the political success of one campaigner in 1848 American […]
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The backfire effect is the tendency to reject evidence, facts or information that goes against the beliefs we are attached to. Normally we tend to give ourselves and others more credit, that our perceptions of reality can change given more accurate or new information. But often that isn’t the case. Information we first absorb and use has an anchoring effect […]
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Automation bias is an over-reliance on automated aids and decision support systems. Trust and complacency develops. Erroneous automated information is favored even when accurate contradictory non-automated information is presented. A person becomes complacent of their own ability to discern reality because they rely too much on an automated system. Instead of being aware and vigilant to seek and process information, […]
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The availability heuristic works like it sounds: whatever is most available is most easily used to make judgments and come to decisions. Judgments are based on memory recall. Recent information is imprinted on memory more vividly, and also primes us towards focusing on that information. The less something is vivid or available, the less likely it is to be used. […]
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The allure of simplistic ambiguity over accurate complexity. First, an explanation on the words simplicity and ambiguity. Skip to the examples below if you want the “simple” understanding. Etymology Simplicity favors looking at something in a larger, less specific, less detailed, less defined way. It looks at common unifying aspects to connect them in a general reference. A unity towards […]
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Our thoughts and ability to think are constricted and limited by the normalization and conventions of the society around us. Time is required to change how we think about reality. We are born and the influences of our parents, school, media and all of our social environment imposes, induces and conditions a perception of reality into us. We have 18 […]
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People do not really seem to want to think much. But, they sure do seem to want to feel much, feel-good that is. Satisfying a focus on emotional desires overrides the capacity to think and act properly, as they become secondary to the emotional influence. This is especially so for those who do not have a concern with thinking, and […]
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If you declare something to be true simply based on it being a belief, well then you don’t know what truth is as a concept, how it is determined, or what a belief is. What is in existence, exists, and is what is. If you can demonstrate something is, is existent, then it is, and it is a truth. If […]
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Carnism, non-veganism, statism, governments, military, police, money, etc. are not the real problem, as they are the manifestations of a problem that we create. We are the problem. Focusing on getting rid of all these things we created will not solve the problem unless we get everyone to stop creating them, not the manifestation and symptom itself, but the poisoned […]
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Content: 2.1 Thinking about Reality 2.2 Consciousness Addendum 2.3 Control, Conformity and Irresponsibility 2.4 Importance of Thought Video Audio Download .mp3: Modalities of Thought – Language and Reality Pt.2 2.1 Thinking about Reality General Grammar is a systematic method of gathering raw data of a similar nature into a body of knowledge, known as a subject, or study. Formal logic […]
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