What Your Senses Can’t Perceive & What Happens When You Are Too Productive - SYSK Choice
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What role does handedness play in decision-making?
Hello, welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. Thank you for joining me. I don't know if you knew this or not, but the upper right side of a menu or a web page or even a newspaper, the upper right side is often considered prime real estate. It's the first place people look if they're right-handed. Left-handed people actually see the left side sooner. Cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto says our hands and eyes have everything to do with how we interact with the physical world, and our handedness can have a lot to do with the decisions we make. Dr. Casasanto asked participants in a study to decide between two products to buy, two job applicants to hire, or two alien creatures to trust.
Right-handed participants regularly chose the one on the right side of the page, while lefties chose the one on the left side of the page. People tend to prefer things they see or experience on the same side as their dominant hand. That's apparently because they're easier to reach, perceive, and interact with. And you can use that phenomenon to your advantage by catering to someone's dominant side in professional or personal situations. And that is something you should know. As you travel through life on this planet, you see the world as it is, right? Well, not exactly. What you see is the world the way humans see the world. But other creatures on the very same planet see a very different world in very different ways. And so what makes this so interesting to me is that if animals see things so differently than we do, who's right? What is real? And does it even matter? Here to discuss this and give us some understanding of exactly how other creatures perceive their own reality is Ed Yong.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What role does handedness play in decision-making?
2:54–5:54
2
How do animals perceive the world differently than humans?
5:54–8:37
3
What is the concept of 'Umwelt'?
8:37–17:11
4
How do scientists discover animals' unique senses?
17:11–31:06
5
How do dogs perceive their environment through smell?
31:06–48:20
6
How do bees influence the colors of flowers?
48:20–51:42
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