Quotes About Perception

it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

Capacidade para surpresa é um aspecto essencial de nossa vida mental, e a própria surpresa é o indicativo mais sensível de como compreendemos nosso mundo e o que esperamos dele.

The normal state of your mind is that you have intuitive feelings and opinions about almost everything that comes your way. You like or dislike people long before you know much about them; you trust or distrust strangers without knowing why; you feel that an enterprise is bound to succeed without analyzing

The widespread misunderstanding of randomness sometimes has significant consequences.

Michotte had a different idea: he argued that we see causality, just as directly as we see color.

When the handsome and confident speaker bounds onto the stage, for example, you can anticipate that the audience will judge his comments more favorably than he deserves. The availability of a diagnostic label for this bias—the halo effect—makes it easier to anticipate, recognize, and understand.

He had noticed that the pupils are sensitive indicators of mental effort—they dilate substantially when people multiply two-digit numbers, and they dilate more if the problems are hard than if they are easy. His

whenever accuracy is the goal, bias and noise play the same role in the calculation of overall error.

Your mind is ready and even eager to identify agents, assign them personality traits and specific intentions, and view their actions as expressing individual propensities.

The observers almost never missed a K that was shown at the beginning or near the end of the Add-1 task but they missed the target almost half the time when mental effort was at its peak, although we had pictures of their wide-open eye staring straight at it.

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among politicians than among physicians or lawyers.

People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media.

Most of us, most of the time, live with the unquestioned belief that the world looks as it does because that's the way it is.

He weighs losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal.

framing effects: the large changes of preferences that are sometimes caused by inconsequential variations in the wording of a choice problem.

He had no idea what was wrong, but he knew something was wrong. It turned out that the heart of the fire had not been in the kitchen but in the basement beneath where the men had stood.

Surprise then activates and orients your attention: you will stare, and you will search your memory for a story that makes sense of the surprising event.

The procedure I adopted to tame the halo effect conforms to a general principle: decorrelate error!

The "Florida effect" involves two stages of priming. First, the set of words primes thoughts of old age, though the word old is never mentioned; second, these thoughts prime a behavior, walking slowly, which is associated with old age. All this happens without any awareness.

more intelligent individuals are more likely than others to have rich representations of most things.

Most of us are pitch-perfect in detecting anger in the first word of a telephone call, recognize as we enter a room that we were the subject of the conversation, and quickly react to subtle signs that the driver of the car in the next lane is dangerous. Our everyday intuitive abilities are no less marvelous than the striking insights of an experienced firefighter or physician—only more common.

Poignancy (a close cousin of regret) is a counterfactual feeling, which

We can live comfortably with colleagues without ever noticing that they actually do not see the world as we do.