Security World

 People are misled every day. We tell ourselves that we are more intelligent and more beautiful than our friends, that the political party we support can not make mistakes, that we are too busy to help our colleagues. We deceive ourselves into deceiving others by creating a social advantage. Psychologists have identified several ways to deceive ourselves: gathering biased information, biased reasoning, and little memories. Let's focus on the first - the way we look for information that supports what we want to believe while avoiding those that do not. In one experiment, 306 participants wrote a convincing speech about a fictional man named Mark. They were told they would receive a bonus depending on how practical the lesson was. Some of them were said to present Marko as likable, others were told to deliver him as disliked, and others were said to convey the impression they would form of him. To gather information about Marko, participants watched a series of short videos, which th...