Quotes About Perception

cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.

Considering how little we know, the confidence we have in our beliefs is preposterous—and it is also essential.

the prediction of the future is not distinguished from an evaluation of current evidence—prediction matches evaluation. This is perhaps the best evidence we have for the role of substitution.

Subjective confidence in a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation of the probability that this judgment is correct.

answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own.

It appears to be a feature of System 1 that cognitive ease is associated with good feelings.

results are shocking. More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.

People don't choose between things, they choose between descriptions of things.

Why call them System 1 and System 2 rather than the more descriptive "automatic system" and "effortful system"? The reason is simple: "Automatic system" takes longer to say than "System 1" and therefore takes more space in your working memory. This matters, because anything that occupies your working memory reduces your ability to think.

The familiarity of one phrase in the statement sufficed to make the whole statement feel familiar, and therefore true.

thought—the expert and the heuristic—as well as the entirely automatic mental activities of perception and memory, the operations that enable you to know there is a lamp on your desk or retrieve the name of the capital of Russia.

Cognitive ease is both a cause and a consequence of a pleasant feeling.

I describe mental life by the metaphor of two agents, called System 1 and System 2, which respectively produce fast and slow thinking. I speak of the features of intuitive and deliberate thought as if they were traits and dispositions of two characters in your mind. In the picture that emerges from recent research, the intuitive System 1 is more influential than your experience tells you, and it is the secret author of many of the choices and judgments you make.

your subjective experience consists largely of the story that your System 2 tells itself about what is going on.

More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.

She is a hedgehog. She has a theory that explains everything, and it gives her the illusion that she understands the world.

They didn't want more information that might spoil their story. WYSIATI.

Indeed, the mere exposure effect is actually stronger for stimuli that the individual never consciously sees

Nisbett and Borgida summarize the results in a memorable sentence: Subjects' unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.

reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

The media do not just shape what the public is interested in, but also are shaped by it.

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My

The main function of System 1 is to maintain and update a model of your personal world, which represents what is normal in it. The model is constructed by associations that link ideas of circumstances, events, actions, and outcomes that co-occur with some regularity, either at the same time or within a relatively short interval.