The same happens with positive and negative information. Some peoples’ brains tune in automatically to the negative stuff, while others can filter this out and zone in on the positive. Psychologists have come up with many ingenious ways of measuring these selective biases in attention, which occur in a flash and usually happen well outside our conscious awareness. We can also measure selective biases in memory as well as biases in how we interpret ambiguous situations.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:25:16 +0000
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