The Mind Overrules Perception

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Our affective reactions and our memory are somewhat independent. And the affective seems to work faster. That again might be tied to danger and avoiding danger that if there are things in the world that are dangerous to us, we better know it quickly and act quickly before we remember or not. We're using our mind to overcome our first reaction, which is to burst into tears and bursting into tears is or screaming. Neither of them will help us at this point. So that repressing it is is probably a good idea.

My guest today is acclaimed psychologist and longtime Stanford University professor Barbara Tversky who calls on her nearly 50 years in the field of cognitive psychology for an in-depth discussion about how our minds work.

We discuss the Nine Laws of Cognition, why action shapes thought, how the language we use changes what we think, tactics to communicate better on Zoom, why she dove into the work of Leonardo da Vinci, when to use charts and when to avoid them, the importance of perspective taking, learned knowledge vs. earned knowledge, and so much more.

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