What The Experts Still Don't Understand About Themselves


	What The Experts Still Don't Understand About Themselves

chestnut501

10-7-2009 8:52 AM

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Understanding behavior does nothing to change behavior

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/58b14add-109b-4e01-9340-052b559ce59a/06C1822B-83D9-45C1-8AF8-C673B148EE40/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=what-the-experts-still-dont-know-09-10-06" href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=what-the-experts-still-dont-know-09-10-06" style="font-size: 11px;">www.scientificamerican.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=what-the-experts-still-dont-know-09-10-06"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" done0="130" done2="130">This month the <A 
href="http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/10/one-nagging-thing-you-still-dont_05.html">British 
Psychological Society</A> published the 150<SUP>th</SUP> issue of its Research 
Digest.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=what-the-experts-still-dont-know-09-10-06"><SPAN done0="131" done2="131">To celebrate, they asked 23 world-renowned psychologists the following question: <A href="http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/10/one-nagging-thing-you-still-dont_05.html">What is one nagging thing that you still don’t understand about yourself?</A><SPAN>  </SPAN>A few touched on <A href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-quest-to-find-conscio">consciousness</A>. But many wrote about the conundrum of how <EM>understanding</EM> behavior does nothing to <EM>change</EM> behavior. <O:P></O:P></O:P><//O:P></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=what-the-experts-still-dont-know-09-10-06"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" done0="133" done2="133">For instance, Norbert 
Schwarz commented on how knowing that gloomy <A 
href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/topic.cfm?id=weather">weather</A> affects one’s moods (he did 
experiments) doesn’t stop him from feeling down on dreary days. And Paul Rozin 
remarked that even though psychologists know we <EM>learn</EM> from experience, 
we continue to be terrible at <EM>predicting</EM> how </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=what-the-experts-still-dont-know-09-10-06">happy we’ll be, how we’ll like something, and even how much work we’ll 
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