Comments on: Violence and delusional pets http://mindhacks.com/2012/02/12/violence-and-delusional-pets/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Wed, 22 May 2013 13:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: markps2 http://mindhacks.com/2012/02/12/violence-and-delusional-pets/#comment-25672 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:21:52 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=21488#comment-25672 Looking for cause and effect is inside all humans.
“Magical thinking”is causal reasoning that looks for correlation between acts or utterances and certain events.
“Street light interference phenomenon” :people believe street lights go off/on when THEY are nearby. When the lights are randomly turning off or on.
In the “Mr. A” story, dropped a jar of molasses he needed to blame it on something- find a reason. He decided to blame it on the cat. Listened to his imaginations idea (cause and effect) as credible. Shows his reasoning skills were going bad.

1) Make mistake
2) Don’t detect the mistake
3) Don’t correct the mistake

]]> By: Karen Franklin http://mindhacks.com/2012/02/12/violence-and-delusional-pets/#comment-25590 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:05:17 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=21488#comment-25590 Strange coincidence: After posting the above, I stumbled across a report in the Atlantic indicating that maybe your cat really IS making you crazy! Check it out: http://bit.ly/x8Tm4k

]]> By: Karen Franklin http://mindhacks.com/2012/02/12/violence-and-delusional-pets/#comment-25589 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:34:33 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=21488#comment-25589 I doubt it’s coincidence that a lot of this stuff revolves around cats, historically suspected of being in league with the devil. I heard an interesting Radio Lab podcast on the ability of cats to survive falls from high buildings, and how this fed into the superstition that they were supernaturally endowed.

]]> By: kathy lowen http://mindhacks.com/2012/02/12/violence-and-delusional-pets/#comment-25565 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:29:32 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=21488#comment-25565 Pets make pretty easy recipients for any sort of narcissistic “projection”, and arguably that’s probably why some folks become so, um “obsessed”, referring to them as their “children”, “best friend”, etc.. Which kinda makes you wonder what some of those critters might really have to say if they could talk!
“Oh man, you should see what that crazy broad does to me when no one’s around…!” ;-p

]]> By: Gilbert http://mindhacks.com/2012/02/12/violence-and-delusional-pets/#comment-25456 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:24:42 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=21488#comment-25456 Interesting! See also: How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy – http://goo.gl/b86E2 – Any links there?

]]> By: Bookmarks for February 11th, 2012 through February 12th, 2012 | PRCog's Gear Grindings http://mindhacks.com/2012/02/12/violence-and-delusional-pets/#comment-25455 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:14:40 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=21488#comment-25455 [...] Violence and delusional pets – [...]

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