pjeby comments on Verbal Overshadowing and The Art of Rationality - Less Wrong

63 Post author: pangloss 27 April 2009 11:39PM

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Comment author: pjeby 28 April 2009 12:01:14AM 0 points [-]

In fact, the studies on Insight Puzzles in particular (i.e. verbal overshadowing with respect to explaining the actual process by which one achieved the solution to a problem), suggest that those of us who engage in verbalization tasks relating to our reasoning and inferences (say, those of us dedicating a lot of time and energy to writing posts or comments about it), had better figure out how to train our Generalized Explicit Verbal Thinking Process not to drop the ball when it comes to thinking about reasoning.

See also this comment, about verbal overshadowing of other types of thought processes, such as the ones involved in motivation and emotional belief.