Cognitive Psychology - Concept Crawling

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When we're talking about concepts that creep, that can range from very specific kind of narrow simple things. Like in our case, some of our studies were on the concept of what a color is,. But there's another feature of human cognition that complicates things. And that's our tendency to make evaluations of degree or kind not on an objective standard, but by using comparisons.

In this episode we explore prevalence induced concept change. In a nutshell, when we set out to change the world by reducing examples of something we have deemed problematic, and we succeed, a host of psychological phenomena can mask our progress and make those problems seem intractable -- as if we are only treading water when, in fact, we’ve created the change we set out to make.

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