Psychologically, people normally get hurt when it comes to make some critical decisions. Selective Thinking is one factor of critical thinking that cause hindrance to people to feel better. So I want to find out how selective thinking affects the society as whole.
I would start by defining what you mean by "selective thinking" into sub-categories and then analysing those sub-categories objectively (with data, statistically valid survey sampling) or assessing subjectively (with interviews, case studies etc) and generalising from those findings.
For instance, selective thinking could include cognitive biases such as confirmation bias, denial etc.
References you may wish to consult are:
Daniel Khaneman, 2011, Thinking fast and slow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Robert Cialdini, 1984, Influence - the psychology of persuasion (Harperbusiness)
Charles Munger, The psychology of human misjudgement (Youtube)
Daniel Khaneman is a Nobel prizewinner and is also here on Researchgate. Robert Cialdini is also on Researchgate.
Well first thing is that you understand what selective thinking is.
It's just makes a person focus on one particular thought which favous whatever he wishes to be true or wants and ignore all the other things.
It can be both bad and good. As you know, if you ignore the existence of something or refuse to acknowledge it , it won't go away
And such mindset can bring harm to.yourself and others around you by not accepting that something like that is possible.
It is often a good thing too sometimes. It helps some people keep themselves sane by not accepting a terrible thing they did which they regert and going crazy over it depressing themselves finally leading to commiting sucide. Tho this doesn't make the thinking any less dangerous. It just a way to help them deal with issues better for a the while until they are ready to accept whatever they have done
Selective thinking is totally depends on your perception.. As you say about cognitive thinking yes it is has some particular direction to use but it would be selective or not it will be decided by you...
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