Hello Mastodon! I have created a simple #auditory#illusion as a demo for the kind of effect I'm investigating, and would love your feedback! Here's the gist: you will first hear a "aba" sound and "a ada" sound, followed by a series of sounds in a weird background noise, then the exact same series of sounds in quiet... Please give it a try and let me know what you think! #AuditoryIllusion#psychoacoustics#psycholinguistics@psychology@psycholinguistics
#Meditation sharpens your #concentraiton and your thinking power. Then piece by piece, your own #subconscious motives and mechanics become clear to you. Your #intuition sharpens. The precision of your #thought increases, and gradually you come to a direct #knowledge of things as they reaally are, without #prejudice and without #illusion .
THE ILLUSION OF MORAL DECLINE by Adam M. Mastroianni and Daniel T. Gilbert (Nature, 2023).
"In a series of studies using both archival and original data (n = 12,492,983), we show that people in at least 60 nations around the world believe that morality is declining, that they have believed this for at least 70 years and that they attribute this decline both to the decreasing morality of individuals as they age and to the decreasing morality of successive generations. Next, we show that people’s reports of the morality of their contemporaries have not declined over time, suggesting that the perception of moral decline is an illusion. Finally, we show how a simple mechanism based on two well-established psychological phenomena (biased exposure to information and biased memory for information) can produce an illusion of moral decline."