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Podcast: The Light Inside
Episode: Storytelling: How Our Social Personas are Influenced by Our Perceptual Identities
Description: Today we look at the psychological aspect of Magical Thinking and the role it plays in the introspection illusion of social influence.
Explaining perhaps why the idea of social influence is based in naive realism. And how the focusing effect leads to foundational attribution errors, observation discrepancies and various forms of subjective biasesÂ
-And how our need to find fulfillment in the external validations of others often leaves us feeling unhappy.Â
Our intention is to establish the role our self concepts play in forming how we connect and relate to the world around us....