Do you really know why you do what you do? | Petter Johansson

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Experimental psychologist Petter Johansson researches choice blindness -- a phenomenon where we convince ourselves that we're getting what we want, even when we're not. In an eye-opening talk, he shares experiments (designed in collaboration with magicians!) that aim to answer the question: Why do we do what we do? The findings have big implications for the nature of self-knowledge and how we react in the face of manipulation. You may not know yourself as well as you think you do.
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26 мар 2018

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@jadeeye5630 6 лет назад

when you find an experiment you want someone to try on you, but then you realise that your knowledge that the experiment exists makes it impossible for you to take part in it, cause you already know the game

@AnnafromHungarylvNW 6 лет назад

I think that not admitting to having made a mistake is a factor here too.

@pezaoBsb 6 лет назад

Choice is an overestimated concept. Most of us were raised to believe in the individual nature of our choices, that we choose our own path, and that we must take responsibility for the consequences no matter what. We’d be surprised to know how much our choices are a product of our environment then simply the product of free will.

@KVideos789 6 лет назад

Its people and videos like this, showing whats still out there to learn about human behavior and the brain that inspires me to go into psychology! Loved this!

@codenamescarletfox 6 лет назад

and of course the photographer had to point out that he's a photographer

@khalidsafir 6 лет назад

Interesting although not that surprising, for two reasons. People do not have a habit of having deep discussions, they prefer to have shallow ones. Simply said, most people are shallow, while of course, they hold themselves in high regard. So any opinion they have is probably not based on anything deep. The second, is that people tend to be very emotional about their opinions, not a very good attitude for self reflection. So, again, they dont give themselves the chance to know their own thoughts deeply. I find hope in this technique, it's a way to get people to see the other side and hopefully become more balanced people.

@stevenmarin3661 6 лет назад

Introspection is an intelligence, asking yourself why on a daily basis will give your answer more purpose by leaving it open to refinement. Change is constant, we need to ask ourselves why on daily basis to consciously remind ourselves why we do what we do.

@abhimat 6 лет назад

1) self-knowledge is more self observation, concerned with the interpretation of our experiences rather than the objective reality, 2) questions are potent (tools) and can be manipulative

@markhuslage 6 лет назад

Amazing how we're able to make up stories on the spot to justify a given choice, even if it was not our choice. This is the story here: the ego's propensity to defend and inflate one's answer and oneself. The propensity for self-deception and/or susceptibility to manipulation in humans is staggering. If our ego's continue to lead, we're in trouble.

@nO_d3N1AL 6 лет назад

This is astounding! I can't believe people don't notice. I think this just shows how indifferent people are. When a choice between A and B is not so clear-cut, one may find it easy to reason about it either way. I would like to see this experiment repeated with more obvious distinctions, perhaps a yes/no to preferences such as "Do you like X?" and switch them round.

@user-ix6kk8wm6l 4 года назад

I saw Ted lecture in English class. I found out that we didn't know much about ourselves. There were many difficult English, but the content of the lecture was informative.

@alimosapour1217 6 лет назад

Woow.. Persian subtitle as soon as possible ♥️♥️ thankks veryy muchh

@LughSummerson 6 лет назад

If you're asked to make up an opinion on the spot about something that you don't really care about, you can do that. If you're asked for the opposite opinion, you can give that too. That's part of good thinking, and why a teacher might ask two halves of a class to argue for and against a proposition. I think this experiment just shows that people don't have strong, considered opinions on most things. An individual voter may have five or six issues that he is really concerned about. Can those opinions be switched? Those are the ones that matter.

@dartagnanx1 6 лет назад

Terrific! Fantastic idea to do this experiment and the results are so interesting.

@aniketagarwal7117 6 лет назад

Hi! I was just wondering that probably the reason the participants did not notice the switch was because they did not care which photo they chose as their motivation was to get out as quickly as possible.

@KPpivot 6 лет назад

This could possibly be really helpful when raising children and knowing the right time to ask why instead of the wrong time

@Mir4yAll 6 лет назад

How is it possible to be fooled with a picture opposite of your choice? He gave you the wrong one, you go "hey, man, do you think I am stupid Give me that!"

@andrebrandao6618 6 лет назад

This is somewhat related to "identity congruence". Even though people didn't notice the swap of the pictures, but once they have it in their hands the call for justification comes in, because people suffer a great deal of pain when they realize that they are not living up to their identity. Let's say... someone regard himself or herself as "keen to solidarity " and a situation rises up and a third person points it out "you are keen to solidarity...so do it". The person then does it because not doing implies difference to what the person intrinsecly believes about himself or herself. Justifying the choice has a lot to do with "identity congruence" more than "knowing why the choice "

@crazyprayingmantis5596 6 лет назад

Could it not just be as simple as they just weren't paying attention or were too polite to say anything, about the switches or just forgot what answers they chose or didn't really care because it ultimately doesn't matter?

@C.B.32 6 лет назад

I wonder how the test with the faces has gone if it was done with autistic people. They tend to have a good eye for details and perhaps notice the change of cards better.