How can we become more aware of the biases in our own memories?

We propose that amateur psychologists can most effectively improve knowledge diversity in PBS if they focus on “blind spots”—topics or endeavors that are ... Nov 2, 2023 ... Balcetis, an associate professor in NYU's Department of Psychology, will share actionable ways that leverage the power of how we see so that we ... Dec 23, 2020 ... ... psychology at the University of Chicago who recently led a study of the condition, which can be congenital or acquired through trauma. “They ... The optic nerve carries visual information from the retina to the brain. There is a point in the visual field called the blind spot: Even when light from a ... Feb 26, 2013 ... Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji and longtime collaborator Anthony Greenwald condense three decades of work on the unconscious mind in ... The blind spot bias refers to when people are unaware of their own biases. In fact, most people believe they are actually more objective and less biased than ... Jan 25, 2022 ... Blind spots can be pretty much anything and the concept is defined variously. Some talk of a discrepancy or 'gap' between how we are perceived ... Jan 1, 2023 ... West et al. (Reference West, Meserve and Stanovich2012) extended earlier social psychological work on the BBS to the cognitive domain using ... When you draw a line through the dot and X you set up an optical illusion. The brain knows that a line is there and fills in the gap, even as it loses sight of ... The intellectual centerpiece of the book is the theory of cognitive dissonance, first proposed in 1957 by social psychologist Leon Festinger. Cognitive ...