Accurately perceiving our own feeling states can take a lot of practice. Once we are able to witness our emotions with more accuracy, it may take even more practice and self-attuning to estimate how our feelings are commingling with our thoughts and actions. What helps you have accurate empathy with yourself?
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Human cognition, emotion, and motor function are not computational processes. Our brains, hearts, and bodies are living, dynamic, evolving wonders. To that end, scientists have described and studied a dazzling variety of specific cognitive biases. This work helps illuminate a vast, multifaceted landscape of statistically meaningful ways that brains are ultimately not computers. At the same time, science has yet to do extensive study of emotive and motor biases that likely can also originate from the significant cluster of neurons in the heart and in the gut. Yet all told, we understand that the biopsychosocial experience of being human is fallible, predictably unpredictable, mutating, and, well, human.
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Human cognition, emotion, and motor function are not computational processes. Our brains, hearts, and bodies are living, dynamic, evolving wonders. To that end, scientists have described and studied a dazzling variety of specific cognitive biases. This work helps illuminate a vast, multifaceted landscape of statistically meaningful ways that brains are ultimately not computers. At the same time, science has yet to do extensive study of emotive and motor biases that likely can also originate from the significant cluster of neurons in the heart and in the gut. Yet all told, we understand that the biopsychosocial experience of being human is fallible, predictably unpredictable, mutating, and, well, human.
[image description: Two hearts are are talking. The on the left with an angry. facial expression says, "It's just decent common sense to warn me when you'll be out all night." And the one on the right responds by asking, "You never say that when I work overnight." Text reads: Empathy Gap: Underestimating the influence of emotion on attitudes, preferences, and behaviors."]
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