Belief in One’s Victimization: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Classic scar experiment that is highly relevant to modern times, where people who believe that they are victims try to cash in on that purported victimization over and over, classic case of confirmation bias and WYSIATI.

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More on the Dartmouth scar experiment at Psychology Today, along with commentary regarding Andy Clark’s work on predictive processing, including a link to fascinating rubber hand experiments.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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