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perception
You are remarkably good at ignoring what you do not want to see.
Selective perception allows individuals to interpret ambiguous actions differently to align with partisan interests, a phenomenon demonstrated in the 1954 study 'They Saw a Game' by Hastorf and Cantril.
The study found that viewers interpreted the game's rule infractions differently based on their team affiliation, rather than perceiving different physical events entirely.
What you see is not the world, but the version of the world that fits you.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Hastorf and Cantril (1954) on 'They Saw a Game'
- What the check found
- The study was published in 1954, not 1951. The claim implies a total perceptual difference, whereas the study demonstrates biased interpretation of ambiguous actions, not a hallucination of different physical stimuli.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.