easily, there can be a benefit to changing direction and trying something
(D) our
new. But our bias toward the familiar) can make it difficult to
comfort
train
Psychologists have designed experiments
participants to solve a problem one way, and then offer the option of
switching to a much faster method. (Overwhelmingly, according to Pope,)
zone.
that
people tend not to take the shortcut. "They continue with the learned
variou (of
approach, despite its inefficiency" Pope says that various versions of these
tests have reached a similar conclusion, suggesting to the psychological
x
community that this inflexible thinking is an innate part of being human.
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But Pope and Ionescu argue that this conclusion is premature,
because these studies have only considered WEIRD (Western, Educated,
Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) humans. To investigate cognitive
b
flexibility in a non-WEIRD population, Pope traveled to Namibia to meet
the Himba people.
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