The impact of any situation depends on the personal and therefore subjective sense that the person gives him, so the same situations can be lived as different realities by different people.
On the other hand, people have difficulty recognizing the social construction of situations, including the perception of simple objects and situations, and these difficulties have consequences, as we will see below.
- Just remembering is a constructive process.
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- As good as it is remembering.
- Our memory is imperfect.
- The truth is that memory is inevitably influenced by the context of remembrance (conversations about remembrance.
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Loftus and Palmer demonstrated the effect of misinformation?Through an experiment called ‘car accident’. This book explains how different people, in the same accident, built their own realities on what happened according to the way they were interviewed on the subject. Of the same events, the crashing car respondents defined the accident as lighter than those who were asked about the crashed cars.
On planet Earth there are different forms of structure, function and social organization of life, and therefore very different realities, for example, the concept we have of the family is not the same for a tribe or clan, even if they are trained to achieve similar goals.
Why is it so difficult to fully understand other cultures?If we look at a building under construction, we will not be surprised how they build it because this form of construction is common in our reality. Old Cathedral, it can be difficult to imagine how its construction process was due to being part of another reality.
Just as it is essential to assume that reality is something that is built, you also have to be aware of a fact: this construction is very well linked to the objective part that you can have, in a way that is not easily recognizable. And if it is not easily recognizable, what are the consequences of not recognizing this subjectivity?
The main consequence of not considering social construction is the ‘bias of false consensus’. The bias of false consensus (belief that our judgment is the most common and shared by others) leads to biases of attribution (errors in the award of cases). The main consequences of the non-recognition of different realities explain, in turn, the bias of false consensus:
Each person has a unique and irreplaceable personality, it is not possible to copy or imitate it 100%, and the same goes for reality, if you ask us how we would explain to an alien the world in which we live, each of us to give a different answer.
Context and learning have shaped our being since we were born, but our genetic heritage is also part of us. Can’t we feel, think, look, breathe, remember in exactly the same way as others, and therefore reality will be experienced differently?
How many times have you heard or said that you have to be realistic in a given situation?It is difficult to understand that reality itself does not exist and therefore everyone has its own truth, so we have a responsibility to respect and understand the realities of others, without impositions or judgments of value.