It's often easy to see when someone else has made a poor decision, but hard to admit that we're making a big mistake ourselves. swhitbo explains why.
New research on self-persuasion shows the danger signals to avoid when making your own life choices.A friend of yours recently bought an expensive new tech toy, which you can see in an instant was a huge waste of money. Not only was it overpriced, but it also seemed like an unnecessarily complicated gadget for the task at hand. “You’ve got to get one of these!” insists your friend.
to change behavior originates from within the individual.” You might not agree with someone else’s values , but it would be hard to disagree with your own .Because the debate you have with yourself is likely to be less contentious than one you have with someone else, it could be all too easy to follow the path created by your own reasoning, even when that reasoning is flawed.
Of course, it’s possible that your decision is a good one and that having the new table will make your life more pleasant. The problem arises if you’ve gone through the same flawed thinking as your friend and are about to waste your hard-earned cash for no reason at all.With this very basic background, it’s now time to explore how Bergquist and Ejelöv dissected the self-persuasion process. Across three experiments, the U.
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