Tricking Brain Leads to Less Mental Load
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What is it?
Imagine you really wanted a cookie, but mom said no sweets before dinner! 🍪
So you sneak a cookie and try to stuff it in your mouth super fast.
Maybe you even close your eyes really tight.
In this case, you're kind of fooling yourself.
A part of you knows it's wrong but you want the cookie so much you pretend it's okay (like plugging your ears).
That's self-deception! It's like believing two things at once, even if they don't really add up.
This phenomenon involves a conscious motivational false belief combined with an unconscious real belief.
Experiment: The study employed the forward-looking paradigm, consisting of three phases: initial testing with an answer key available, predicting future performance, and taking a subsequent test without an answer key. Participants were categorized into self-deception, deception, and control groups.
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Major Takeaways:
Self-deception was successfully induced, with participants in the self-deception group predicting significantly higher scores for the second test than those in the control group.
The self-deception group experienced lower cognitive load compared to the deception group, indicating that self-deception may alleviate cognitive burden.
The findings suggest that self-deception may function as an adaptive strategy to conserve cognitive resources, particularly under conditions of high cognitive load.
Reference:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01718/full
this feels like a really dense topic .. could have benefitted from a longer more detailed article
what is "stealing a bell"??