Quotes About Perception

Our predilection for causal thinking exposes us to serious mistakes in evaluating the randomness of truly random events.

Errors are bound to occur when a judgment of similarity is substituted for a judgment of probability

The main obstacle is that subjective confidence is determined by the coherence of the story one has constructed, not by the quality and amount of the information that supports it.

The psychologist Paul Slovic has proposed an affect heuristic in which people let their likes and dislikes determine their beliefs about the world.

The question we face is whether this candidate can succeed. The question we seem to answer is whether she interviews well. Let's not substitute.

judgment, there is noise—and more of it than we think.

Thoughts of any aspect of life are more likely to be salient if a contrasting alternative is highly available.

The mistake that people make in the focusing illusion involves attention to selected moments and neglect of what happens at other times.

we perceive the world of objects as essentially separate from the world of minds, making it possible for us to envision soulless bodies and bodiless souls.

Most impressions and thoughts arise in your conscious experience without your knowing how they got there.

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If you consider how much you should pay for a house, you will be influenced by the asking price. The same house will appear more valuable if its listing price is high than if it is low, even if you are determined to resist the influence of this number;

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. Frequently

The experience of familiarity has a simple but powerful quality of 'pastness' that seems to indicate that it is a direct reflection of prior experience.

The same bias contributes to the common observation that many members of a collaborative team feel they have done more than their share and also feel that the others are not adequately grateful for their individual contributions.

poor evidence can make a very good story.

Risk" does not exist "out there," independent of our minds and culture, waiting to be measured. Human beings have invented the concept of "risk" to help them understand and cope with the dangers and uncertainties of life.

The explanation is a simple availability bias: both spouses remember their own individual efforts and contributions much more clearly than those of the other, and the difference in availability leads to a difference in judged frequency. The bias is not necessarily self-serving: spouses also overestimated their contribution to causing quarrels, although to a smaller extent than their contributions to more desirable outcomes. The

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. We

pupils are sensitive indicators of mental effort—

essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

Our answer was that when called upon to judge probability, people actually judge something else and believe they have judged probability.

high subjective confidence is not to be trusted as an indicator of accuracy (low confidence could be more informative).

sense. A good mood is a signal that things are generally going well, the environment is safe, and it is all right to let one's guard down. A bad mood indicates that things are not going very well, there may be a threat, and vigilance is required. Cognitive