Quotes About Perception

Intuitive predictions need to be corrected because they are not regressive and therefore are biased.

The evidence suggests that optimism is widespread, stubborn, and costly.

Life is often more complex than the stories we like to tell about it.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

Evaluation on the GOOD–BAD dimension is an automatic operation of System 1

For example, the question "Do you now feel a slight numbness in your left leg?" always prompts quite a few people to report that their left leg does indeed feel a little strange.

our mind is strongly biased toward causal explanations and does not deal well with "mere statistics.

Judgment is not a synonym for thinking, and making accurate judgments is not a synonym for having good judgment.

Even statisticians were not good intuitive statisticians.

We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities (such as a sequence of six girls) appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or of someone's intention.

as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog.

message, unless it is immediately rejected as a lie, will have the same effect on the associative system regardless of its reliability.

On the other hand, a good mood makes us more likely to accept our first impressions as true without challenging them.

Why did you stop working just now?" The answer from inside the lab was often, "How did you know?" to which we would reply, "We have a window to your soul.

Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own.

I was surprised to see that the pupil remained small and did not noticeably dilate as she talked and listened. Unlike the tasks that we were studying, the mundane conversation apparently demanded little or no effort—no more than retaining two or three digits.

Noise is mostly a by-product of our uniqueness, of our "judgment personality.

The remembering self's neglect of duration, its exaggerated emphasis on peaks and ends, and its susceptibility to hindsight combine to yield distorted reflections of our actual experience.

In terms of noise, psychiatry is an extreme case.

Judgment can therefore be described as measurement in which the instrument is a human mind.

Her favorite position is beside herself, and her favorite sport is jumping to conclusions.

La probabilidad de un evento raro será sobrestimada (a menudo, no siempre) debido al sesgo confirmatorio de la memoria. Si pensamos en ese evento, intentaremos hacerlo verdadero en nuestra mente.

Everything makes sense in hindsight.

people who make judgments behave as if a true value exists, regardless of whether it does.