Mundane behavioral decisions, actions can be 'misremembered' as done:
Mundane behaviors that are repeated over time and occur in the context of many other similar behaviors can lead people to conflate intentions and behaviors and create false memories of completing the task, said Dolores Albarracin, a professor of psychology and marketing at Illinois and the director of the Social Action Lab.
"Intentions and making plans typically improve task execution. We need them to function in society, to realize our goals and to get along with others," she said. "But when we form an intention in the moment such as 'I'm going to sign that form now,' and it's an activity we routinely perform, we want to complete the task when we form the intention. Otherwise, we don't actually sign the form. And the reason why is because the thought of wanting to sign the form can be misremembered as actually having signed it, in which case we'd be better off not having formed the intention to sign the form in the first place."
[...] "Our results highlight that behaviors will look to be more consistent with intentions when the behavior is routine," she said. "The finding implies we should be more aware of the potential for error in these similarly trivial behaviors."
The paper has implications for health care settings and any other situation where self-reporting of following through on an action is critical, Albarracin said.
"The fulfillment of routine, repeated behaviors can have meaningful consequences, and are part of, if not central to, many practical contexts," Albarracin said. "More generally, understanding the complexity of the intention-behavior link and the possible unexpected effects of intention formation is essential to promote beneficial behaviors in many domains, ranging from financial decisions to a person's health."
Journal Reference:
Mistaking an Intention for a Behavior: The Case of Enacting Behavioral Decisions Versus Simply Intending to Enact Them:, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (DOI: 10.1177/0146167220929203)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @01:16PM (2 children)
Oh noes, i thought i submitted earlier, never mind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @05:05PM
Kind of like, rejecting aristarchus submissions? Coulda swore we accepted some.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday July 26 2020, @08:27AM
It's also surprising that this is "new" research. When I did psych thirty-odd years ago it was explained to us by the lecturer as being like a mill horse going round and round the same track until it can only go in circles, eventually with repeated actions you wear down a track and think you've already done X even when you haven't. "Have I left the iron on" is a prime example, with many cousins: Did I close the garage door, did I turn the lights off, etc.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 25 2020, @01:31PM (21 children)
This shit actually happen to you guys? Guess my brain's weird. I may not remember if I did something but I can't remember ever catching myself being sure I'd done something when I hadn't.
Then again, it's recently been fascinating me that what's written and what makes it into people's brains has more to do with preconceived expectations than what's written, even when those expectations are directly in conflict with what's written. I don't get that. If they skim something and miss a bit, fine, but we're talking people actually reading every word and getting something entirely different than what was on the page stored in their memory. Works for the spoken word too. That shit's absolutely baffling to me.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @01:42PM (2 children)
> This shit actually happen to you guys?
Not very often. This is what check lists were invented for. Iirc, one of the first formal instances was for aircraft maintenance and pilot procedures. Being "perfect" wasn't so important when preparing for a horse and buggy ride, or even an early automobile ride, you might get stranded, but you probably don't die. Being perfect is very important in flight and there are many useful lessons that come from that discipline.
More recently, health care settings have started to use checklists, along with significantly reduced instances of medical error. If I was going in for any kind of surgery, I'd ask in advance if the team has a check list and uses it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:34PM (1 child)
Funny but true: after The Checklist Manifesto hit healthcare, checklists are everywhere. Now the problem is that HCP have acclimatized and are doing the windows security "do you want to let this program make changes" autoclick-yes behaviour, but with physical checklists - ie. marking as done that which is not, due to routine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:09AM
We can only hope that the autoclick behavior doesn't spread from healthcare workers to A&P mechanics and pilots.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @01:45PM (1 child)
I notice it sometimes when I type. I have a the sentence prepared in the brain but when it comes out on the keyboard sometimes little words etc go missing. Problem is when I read the sentence the brain "autocorrects", cause it knows what it was supposed to type, and inserts the words as I read it so I don't even notice most of the time that they are missing. It's weird.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @02:26PM
...I have a the sentence ...
I see what you did there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @02:23PM
I can't remember.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @03:46PM
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Still got it bitches!
(Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Saturday July 25 2020, @04:22PM
This shit actually happen to you guys? Guess my brain's weird. I may not remember if I did something but I can't remember ever catching myself being sure I'd done something when I hadn't.
It is a very common cause of this [golfhotelwhiskey.com]
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @05:07PM (5 children)
Might explain how you can read your own bullshit and think you support liberty when, in fact, you're a fascist. You also routinely abuse your admin powers and should be fired from SN.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 25 2020, @10:41PM (4 children)
Troll better. That shit ain't even Twitter level.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @10:58PM (1 child)
delete your account
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:11AM
Delete your self. Please.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:38AM (1 child)
Calling it now, saddest comeback of 2020.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 26 2020, @12:36PM
Maybe because it wasn't a comeback, it was a dismissal.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Informative) by shortscreen on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:54PM
This is what happens to me. I'll be looking at some boobs on my computer screen, and then I start to wonder "did I press CTRL+S yet?" And I can't remember if I pressed CTRL+S yet. So I press it. If a prompt comes up asking whether I want to overwrite the file, then I assume I must have already pressed it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @01:13AM
Worst that happens to me is not remembering if I have done something routine, that's why I need to have an exact order of doing things like shit I do when getting ready for bed, that way I know I have done something because I am in the act of doing the thing that always comes after. Otherwise I have to touch my toothbrush to see if it is damp, which would indicate I have brushed my teeth. Also walways washing from top to bottom for example in the shower avoids the very uncomfortable OOOPS when you realize you never washed your armpits.
(Score: 2) by sonamchauhan on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:45AM (4 children)
Happens to me often. Especially with pushups.
27.. 28.. 29.. 30... 41.. 42.. 43...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 26 2020, @12:37PM (1 child)
Right but are you not remembering and hazarding a guess or actually remembering incorrectly?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by sonamchauhan on Wednesday July 29 2020, @02:17PM
I think the two concepts overlap. But it's more misremembering than guessing. There's also mental pressure to skip ahead to my target.
I know when I've hit a multiple of 10 but then I wonder, "was it 30, or was it 40?". I've caught myself wrongly assuming I finished 40 when I actually had only finished 30.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday July 27 2020, @01:03AM (1 child)
I tend to leave 12 out when counting down.
(Score: 2) by sonamchauhan on Wednesday July 29 2020, @02:19PM
Thanks for sharing -- we all have our little quirks.
(Score: 5, Funny) by choose another one on Saturday July 25 2020, @02:05PM (1 child)
I posted on this already, first as well, and it was a good one, it had all of:
- pithy observations about the No Shit Sherlock department at MISPWOSO and scientists reinventing the wheel whilst ignoring all the cars
- informative stuff about why checklists were invented and how they don't always help and the existence (for decades) of the entire "human factors" specialism in accident investigation and human interface design (see "cars" above)
- insightful nuggets about how this is also tied up in confirmation bias (taking the wrong action but remembering taking the right one, e.g. landing gear up because you raised the gear instead of lowering it, very probably in response to a checklist)
And now I check back and the ***ing post ISN'T THERE, not even moderated to oblivion. Lost, deleted, WTF?
NO I am NOT "off my meds", I definitely took them this morning, I have phone alarms/reminders to take them, I have scheduled checks to check I have taken them, I have phone alarms to remind me to check that I have done the checks. See, today's pills are right here in the pillbox.
OH
CRAP
Now I'll have to edit this post...
(Score: 4, Funny) by choose another one on Saturday July 25 2020, @02:07PM
> Now I'll have to edit this post...
*forgets this site doesn't have an "edit" button, pushes "submit" instead, sigh*
I'll get my coat.
(Score: 3, Funny) by legont on Saturday July 25 2020, @03:44PM (2 children)
Whoever has a brain that breaks this chain obviously has way higher surviving chances.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @06:14PM (1 child)
My marriage has this shit down to a science...
Her: Disconnects brain whilst speaking.
Me: Disconnects brain whilst hearing.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday July 25 2020, @07:18PM
The fortune says:
No fucking way are these fortunes random! Or did the fortune come first and subliminally influence you writing that post?
No fuc|<s given.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @08:20PM (1 child)
See subject: hello again you rotten bastards. I'm back and this time I'm here to stay.
* I hate niggers more than ever and I'm not ashamed of it one fucking bit. Fuck all kikes, too.
Don't even think about trying your spam mod bullshit with me. I own this fucking shithole and you stupid niggers can't stop me. Fuck all of you rotten bastards & tranny kikes.
APK
P.S.=> All of you fuckers like martyb can go eat shit and die... apk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:35AM
Anyone else starting to think this AC is a kinky Uncle Tom? The self-loathing and desperation is creating some interesting subtext.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:33AM
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