Scientific Definition
Remembering more context around a scene than was actually present.
Plain-English Definition
Remembering more context around a scene than was actually present.
Feynman Explanation
Memory is a generative model, not a recording.
Core Principle
Remembering more context around a scene than was actually present.
Mechanisms
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Remembering more context around a scene than was actually present.
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Post-mortems get worse, not better, the further from the event.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Memory is a generative model, not a recording.
Examples
- Witnesses 'recall' details that weren't in the room.
- Post-mortems get worse, not better, the further from the event.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Capture decisions and observations in writing, in real time.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Capture decisions and observations in writing, in real time.
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Ignoring the size of a sample or population in our judgments.
Deriving general rules from specific examples; the leap from instance to concept.
The brain evolved to reason adaptively, not always truthfully, to reduce the cost of errors.
We solve problems by adding, even when subtracting would be better.
Assuming that if one option is true, another must be false, when both can be true.
Presuming a purposeful actor behind events that may have no actor at all.
What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.
A finite set of well-defined instructions for solving a problem or performing a computation.
Every model simplifies reality; some are still useful.
Researchers favor conclusions aligned with their school, team, or sponsor.
Using personal stories or isolated examples instead of evidence.
Claiming something is true or better because most people believe it.