Showing posts with label memory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memory. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Friday, March 29, 2019
Freeing Memory from Bias by Bringing it Captive
The process of memory awareness and noticing discrepancies and errors was named metamemory some forty years ago. We may recall something and have our memory of a place or an event in time, only to discover years later that we've misremembered elements of the narrative. Metamemory helps us understand the way that our self-justifying cognitive biases code and influence what we store as memory (which always differs somewhat from objective reality).
Monday, March 25, 2019
Thinking the Unthinkable: A Challenge for the Botkins
I thought about the Botkin daughters today – and it's approximately six weeks since I received their letter. As cognitive dissonance teaches us, all people find it uncomfortable when others believe unpleasant things about them, and it occurred to me that dissonance itself is something that I definitely share in common with these young women.
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