{"id":87258,"date":"2018-03-07T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=87258"},"modified":"2018-03-07T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:44:00","slug":"do-you-really-know-why-you-do-what-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=87258","title":{"rendered":"Do you really know why you do what you do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width:854px\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/petter_johansson_do_you_really_know_why_you_do_what_you_do\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" style=\"position:absolute;left:0;top:0;width:100%;height:100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Experimental psychologist Petter Johansson researches choice blindness &#8212; a phenomenon where we convince ourselves that we&#8217;re getting what we want, even when we&#8217;re not. In an eye-opening talk, he shares experiments (designed in collaboration with magicians!) that aim to answer the question: Why do we do what we do? The findings have big implications for the nature of self-knowledge and how we react in the face of manipulation. You may not know yourself as well as you think you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experimental psychologist Petter Johansson researches choice blindness &#8212; a phenomenon where we convince ourselves that we&#8217;re getting what we want, even when we&#8217;re not. In an eye-opening talk, he shares experiments (designed in collaboration with magicians!) that aim to answer the question: Why do we do what we do? 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