{"id":399,"date":"2005-07-27T14:29:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=399"},"modified":"2005-07-27T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2005-07-27T14:29:14","slug":"do-i-turn-the-wheel-or-does-the-wheel-turn-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2005\/07\/27\/do-i-turn-the-wheel-or-does-the-wheel-turn-me\/","title":{"rendered":"do i turn the wheel or does the wheel turn me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a human bias to underestimate the role we play in creating our own circumstances (this is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/the_cognitive_basis_.html\">&#8216;Fundamental Attribution Error&#8217;<\/a>). I wonder also if there is an opposite bias to underestimate the effect that our circumstances have on us. If there is, what is it called?<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I think both (putative) biases can be explained by perceptual selectivity and an adapted mind. It&#8217;s easier <i>and<\/i> more useful to notice how our circumstances affect things than how unchanging aspects of ourselves do. Contrawise, it&#8217;s hard to notice slow changes that our circumstances have on ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a human bias to underestimate the role we play in creating our own circumstances (this is part of the &#8216;Fundamental Attribution Error&#8217;). I wonder also if there is an opposite bias to underestimate the effect that our circumstances have on us. If there is, what is it called? Either way, I think both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-6r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}