Your phone vibrates as a new notification pops in. You hear some kids outside playing. You see the advertisement on this article. You hear the sound of a new message coming in. The next thing you know, you got distracted.
We are bombarded with distractions everyday — distractions that, more often than not, keeps us away from achieving our goals. But more than that, distractions can also be dangerous, as it alters the way we perceive reality.
A new study suggests that distractions… might change our perception of what’s real, making us believe we saw something different from what we actually saw.
Even more troubling, the study suggests people might not realize their perception has changed – to the contrary, they might feel great confidence in what they think they saw.
“We wanted to find out what happens if you’re trying to pay attention to one thing and something else interferes,” said Julie Golomb, senior author and associate professor of psychology at The Ohio State University. “Our visual environment contains way too many things for us to process in a given moment, so how do we reconcile those pressures?”
The results, published online recently in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, indicate that, sometimes, we don’t.
What happened on the research, and what do the results imply? Find out the answers over at Ohio State News.
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