Timeline for Why don't children know why they do things?
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| Jun 5, 2018 at 20:53 | comment | added | Robert K. Bell | @BrianH ah, that's what I get for not reading more carefully! I probably should have linked to another, like Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes (1977) | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 16:15 | comment | added | BrianH | @RobertK.Bell I feel compelled to point out that the paper you cite is, in fact, a joke paper. It's made, at least in part, to make fun of social psychologists who accept provocative/interesting things based on poor evidence (as in "don't let the facts get in the way of a good story"), as well as to make fun of the tendency for people to believe claims that merely sound scientific but are not valid. But to be clear, it is now one of my favorite joke papers of all time; and to be double-clear to future readers, the claims in the paper are intentionally false and meant to be silly. | |
| Jun 2, 2018 at 17:03 | comment | added | Pharap | Possibly related to so-called Amygdala Hijack. (I say 'so-called' because this theory and its creator aren't entirely popular with all scientists.) | |
| Jun 2, 2018 at 2:03 | comment | added | Malady | @JKreft - You call people with "@", like this post does. ... ... And can't say that I've ever experienced that. ... ... Though I think I can see that, habitually opening the fridge, using it as an opportunity to eat, and post-hoc deciding they were hungry and didn't just open the fridge out of habit. ... ... Then again, they could be noticing their hunger, now that they're at the fridge. | |
| Jun 1, 2018 at 21:24 | comment | added | JKreft | Malandy: Have you ever found yourself at the fridge looking for a snack when you meant to be doing something else? Then you rationalize, "Oh yeah, I'm hungry." Except sometimes you're not, you're just at the fridge. | |
| Jun 1, 2018 at 20:34 | comment | added | Malady | How does this work with things like, "People eat when they're hungry"? ... Then again, it's likely supposed to be more granular, like, "Why did you eat this instead of that"? | |
| Jun 1, 2018 at 11:54 | comment | added | Ivana | Ah this explains why my 3-year old used to ask me questions like "why did i jump of the last stair/ sing a song/ clap my hands?". I guess at 4 he's learned that i dont know why he does things so he stopped asking. | |
| Jun 1, 2018 at 1:34 | comment | added | Robert K. Bell | An example of that research being Self-reports on mental processes: A response to Birnbaum and Stegner. Adult subjects would confabulate reasons why they had chosen a particular pair of stockings over others, and could not explain the real reason they had chosen it. | |
| May 31, 2018 at 22:55 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 31, 2018 at 22:54 | history | answered | JKreft | CC BY-SA 4.0 |