Is There a Negative Confirmation Bias?

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In pop psychology we look at as being negative confirmation bias. Beliefs can change without our conscious awareness and we may never enter into a personal narrative where we don't remember ever having felt differently. We get will retroactively retweel retcon our personal narratives that that's how we've always seen the world oh absolutely well you know because you studied persuasion and beliefs that and branding you know all these things take place unconsciously we don't think we're affected for instance there was a studies done out of Stanford on criminology in which people refused to believe they were influenced by questions about crime. If you have conflicting beliefs then you don't know what's driving you so part of changing a belief

In this episode, Micheal Rousell, author of The Power of Surprise, explains the science of surprise at the level of neurons and brain structures, and then talk about how surprises often lead to the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, the different personal narratives that guide our behaviors and motivations and goals, and, perhaps most importantly, our willingness to be surprised again so that we can change and grow.

In the show, you will how we can use the current understanding of how surprise leads to learning, and how learning depends on interpretation, to improve our lives, and the lives of others