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You are blind to changes happening right before you.
In a 1998 study, about half of the participants failed to notice when the person they were talking to was swapped for another.
Simons, D. J., & Levin, D. T. (1998). Failure to detect changes to people during a real-world interaction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 5(4), 644–649.
Your mind paints a picture, but it leaves out most of the details.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Simons and Levin, 1998, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- What the check found
- The study exists and the finding is accurate, but the source journal is incorrectly cited and the term 'most' implies a stronger majority than the 53% reported in the original paper.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.