Posts Tagged ‘perception’

Inattentional blindness

  • Posted on 08/05/2011 by Nick

Daniel Simons and Chabris (1999) carried out a study to demonstrate a phenomenon called inattentional blindness. The researchers asked participants to watch a short video. In the film two groups of three people were passing a basketball in a hallway. One group was dressed in white t-shirts, the other in black t-shirts. The participants are [...]

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Baggage limit

  • Posted on 07/02/2011 by Nick

American writer and political commentator Walter Lippmann said “We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists”. “It is extremely difficult to imagine the pictures in other people’s heads. As a consequence we become captives of our own beliefs [...]

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