Psychological Myopia: The Tendency to Think Short-Sightedly
Psychological myopia refers to the tendency in decision makers to focus on information immediately related to their judgment and to ignore other, less prominent, pieces …
Learning
How Your Mood Influences Your Cognitive Functioning
A literature review by Mitchell & Phillips (2007) examined how positive and negative moods influence people’s cognitive functioning, or more specifically, executive functions.
How People Pick Up Anxiety Through Classical Conditioning
This post gives an account of the processes that are involved in the learning of anxiety. More specifically, it will consider the theory of classical conditioning.