Sublime

Beliefs and experience. Can you explain the behavior in terms of the person’s beliefs or perceptual skills or the patterns the person used, or judgments of typicality?

Scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi has argued that every individual act of human knowing works on two levels—“focal awareness,” in which the knower gives direct attention to an observed object, and “subsidiary awareness,” in which the knower employs a host of assumptions that are tacit and not recognized as we use them.20 Polanyi shows that

communication behavior and psychometric assessments,

To observe, you must learn to separate situation from interpretation,

An enormous number of people have influenced my thinking, but three were particularly important: William Braud, Barbara Babcock, and Edmund Leach. Parapsychologist William Braud integrated an enormous range of findings with his model of lability and inertia in psi processes. Barbara Babcock is the most significant interpreter of the trickster figur

Social norms, especially those tied up with signaling, are rife with sub-optimal equilibria.

Watch out for the halo effect.

Relativity is built on two sets of decision shortcuts. First, when we can’t assess absolute value, we use comparisons. Second, we tend to choose the easy comparison.

Schumpeter’s concept of pre-analytic vision was inspired by the ideas of sociologist Karl Mannheim whose observation in the late 1920s that, ‘every point of view is particular to a social situation’ led him to popularise the notion that we each have a ‘worldview’ which acts as the lens through which we interpret the world.