The reading on mindbugs was very interesting to me. I was pulled in when the author was explaining how humans have ingrained habits of thought and how this is actually an evolutional triumph. The first example of a mindbug of the tables was fascinating because even when I was given the correct information that they were equal, tested the claim, saw that it was correct, I still could not see them as the same shape when I pulled the paper shape away!<\/p>\n
One of the most interesting parts was when the author talks about Loftus\u2019s study about retroactive interference, or, the misinformation effect. Small changes in the way we ask questions can lead to a change in what is remembered. The author dives into the effects of this on cases of wrongful conviction. This brought me back to a project I did as a freshman in one of my leadership classes where I read and presented on Just Mercy<\/em>. I think about the retroactive interference mindbug combined with implicit bias based on race and it is mind-boggling how our unconscious thoughts can have such profoundly differing impacts on others. The Chapter \u201cShades of Truth\u201d was also very interesting to me. The author talks about untruths and the real motivation behind them. Everyone tells these gray lies. I was always under the pretense that it was a social politeness thing, lie to not hurt others, to spare other’s feelings. But the author calls us on that and explains that the lies are motivated by the intention to spare one\u2019s own feelings.\u00a0 I then realized I had a mindbug that was allowing me to habitually accept my actions and convince myself the motivations behind them were purer than they are! crazy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The reading on mindbugs was very interesting to me. I was pulled in when the author was explaining how humans have ingrained habits of thought and how this is actually an evolutional triumph. The first example of a mindbug of the tables was fascinating because even when I was given the correct information that they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}