The long testimony of history and the recent researches of behavioural scientists, clearly indicate that the cool exercise of logic is only one influence in how people think and therefore act. There are other influences at work which are all too often more powerful.
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Ian McDonald (“Think Again” from his newspaper column “Ian on Sunday”) Some of these influences in his article are: -fear of feeling regret -cognitive dissonance -anchoring -status quo bias -we compartmentalize -being over-confident -magical thinking -vulnerability to hindsight bias -emotions and being emotional “Anyone thinking that politicians, businessmen, husbands, wives, investors, or bankers, poets or pastors, scientists, beggarmen or presidents, Noble Prize winners, thinkers, tailors, soldiers, you, me or anyone else will think straight and act accordingly, please think again and act accordingly - if you follow me.” –Ian McDonald |
