• CaptObvious@literature.cafe
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    1 year ago

    These researchers are all marketers. While they may plausibly have expertise in some behavioral science domains, there’s no evidence that they’re qualified to address cognition. Where are the psychologists’ papers on this question?

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    Individuals are constantly surrounded by potentially meaningful information; however, their ability to use this information is consistently constrained by cognitive systems that are capable of attending to and processing only a small amount of the information available at any given time

    100% this.

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      In my ed psych courses, I was left with the understanding that people pretty effectively filter out the stimuli that don’t actually benefit them. I can understand how a marketer would find this frustrating and go looking for something to blame.