don’t think about white bears

05Mar09

Still reading and thinking about chapter one of The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt. It is a mine of interesting ideas. And it’s brought me back to white bears. These white bears belong to psychologist Dan Wegner. I hadn’t heard of Wegner, though it looks like I should have. I had a quick glance at [...]

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logic

01Mar09

Searching for the tourist website for Novaya Zemlya, I came across this from the writings of the Russian psychologist, Alexander Luria. He’s talking about how “nonliterate subjects often failed to perceive the logical relation among parts of a syllogism”… Another syllogism was presented: “In the far north, where ther is snow, all bears are white. [...]

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Tags: anthropology, bears, logic, psychology, zemblanity