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I'm currently reading Kahneman's "thinking ,fast and slow", and here's one thing that has been bothering me
for two days , and I just don't understand it. Hope that someone can help me.
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The evidence that we have about good feelings, cognitive ease, and the intuition of coherence is, as scientists
say, correlational but not necessarily causal. Cognitive ease and smiling occur together, but do the good feelings actually lead to intuitions of coherence? Yes, they do. The proof comes from a clever experimental approach that has become increasingly popular. some participants were given a cover story that provided an alternative interpretation for their good feelings: they were told about music played in their earphones that "previous research showed that this music influences the emotional reactions of individuals." This story completely eliminates the intuition of coherence. The finding shows that the brief emotional response that follows the presentation of a triad of words(pleasant if the triad is coherent, unpleasant otherwise) is actually the basis of judgement of coherence. there is nothing here that system 1 cannot do. emotional changes are now expected, and because they are unsurprising they are not linked causally to the words.
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how does the experiment prove to us that good feelings induces intuitions of coherence, not the other way around. and how does the "music of the earphone..."statements have to do with that conclusion.
for two days , and I just don't understand it. Hope that someone can help me.
__quote________________
The evidence that we have about good feelings, cognitive ease, and the intuition of coherence is, as scientists
say, correlational but not necessarily causal. Cognitive ease and smiling occur together, but do the good feelings actually lead to intuitions of coherence? Yes, they do. The proof comes from a clever experimental approach that has become increasingly popular. some participants were given a cover story that provided an alternative interpretation for their good feelings: they were told about music played in their earphones that "previous research showed that this music influences the emotional reactions of individuals." This story completely eliminates the intuition of coherence. The finding shows that the brief emotional response that follows the presentation of a triad of words(pleasant if the triad is coherent, unpleasant otherwise) is actually the basis of judgement of coherence. there is nothing here that system 1 cannot do. emotional changes are now expected, and because they are unsurprising they are not linked causally to the words.
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how does the experiment prove to us that good feelings induces intuitions of coherence, not the other way around. and how does the "music of the earphone..."statements have to do with that conclusion.