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Comment Look closely at yourself before you speak (Score 0) 174

I'm afraid to say that al those who say "I know it's not true, it doesn't happen to me!" might be deluding themselves. There are tons of examples of people not aware of the processes that run on in the background of thier own minds. For example, in "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell, he goes into how we make snap impressions based on previous experiences. In one particular case he makes an example of how people "come up" with the solution to an experiment "on their own" after being hinted at the solution. All of them were fully convinced of their independance of their solution. He also gives examples of those who were convinced to walk slower or otherwise alter their behaviour because of words read from a list. If asked, those people would also say they had no external influence and decided to do their actions on their own. Even if we look at general psychology, and internal hidden causes of why people enact certain behaviours because they're acting on previous stimuli, not the stimulus proviking them right now. Being attracted to a mate who has qualities of a favorite parent, or learned passive aggressiveness or impulsiveness. People, it could be argued, are vastly unaware of the causes of their own behaviours and we would be surprised how reactive we really are as beings.

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