CAS PS 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Philip Zimbardo, Confirmation Bias
30 Oct 2018
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We all fall prey to confirmation bias where our thinking falls victim to it. But with mindfulness you can track these and then you can question whether or not this is reality. Tension between what we think and what we do. When you suffer, you immediately like the outcome that comes out of the suffering. For e. g. suffering to get into med school all the classes and hard work. If you are not likely to question your sense of happiness. Those people were asked to lie for such a small amount, they need an internal justification for it. So they start to believe that the experiment was actually fun. E(cid:454)ter(cid:374)al justifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374) ( i did this (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause i (cid:449)as gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:858)(cid:454)(cid:859) a(cid:373)ou(cid:374)t of (cid:373)o(cid:374)e(cid:455), so therefore i (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ue to (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e (cid:373)(cid:455) i(cid:374)itial (cid:271)elief of how the experiment was boring) When you have 2 contradictory beliefs, the key is that dissonance is most powerful and upsetting when it threatens their self-image.
