Thinking and Language: Factors That Affect Human Judgment
Most people are overconfident in their judgments. How an issue is formulated, or framed, can influence preferences. For example, 10% mortality and 90% survival mean the same thing, but do not have the same impact. An aff..
Thinking and Language: How Pre-existing Beliefs Distort Logical Reasoning
Pre-existing beliefs can distort logical reasoning as demonstrated in an experiment related to attitudes toward homosexuality. Both sides of the ideological spectrum were equally biased. People are much more skeptical ab..
Thinking and Language: Intuition and Decision Making
People make intuitive, immediate judgments sometimes based on nothing more than a tone of voice on the other end of a conversation. People also make more reflective decisions based on thought and reasoning. Daniel Kahnem..
Thinking and Language: Language: Its Complexity and Essence
Language, many believe, provides concrete evidence of our ability to think. Fundamentally, all languages have the same basic parameters, with variations occurring as a result of how the "switch box" linked to these param..
Thinking and Language: Story of Genie, a Child Without Language, The
Genie was in her early teens when she escaped a life of captivity caged in a room without language, clothing, or human companionship by a father who considered her subhuman. Susan Curtiss, then a graduate student at UCLA..
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part Five)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of the traumatic amnesia case in which a mother was accused of having sexually abused her daughter years earlier. Dr. Loftus explains that th..
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part Four)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of the traumatic amnesia case in which a mother was accused of having sexually abused her daughter years earlier. After her initial involveme..
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part One)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus describes her reaction at learning that a psychiatrist was showing videotapes of a woman who had repressed certain memories due to "traumatic amnesia," but was now su..
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part Three)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of the traumatic amnesia case in which a mother was accused of having sexually abused her daughter years earlier. Dr. Loftus describes the re..
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part Two)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of the traumatic amnesia case in which a mother was accused of having sexually abused her daughter years earlier. Dr. Loftus explains that sh..