Regarding my previous research posts, I suggest 3 main solution areas lie ahead: (a) cognitive reframing, (b) multiple attitudes and (c) visual sallience (aka sallency). Let’s make sure we don’t have a ‘Confirmation bias on our hands’.
Our context remains decision making in complex situations, with a focus on visualizing the understanding of relationships, making decision making more effective. I have been looking for disturbance, but it seems we have enough grounds for and types of disturbance (100+ cognitive biases). The trick will be to choose or design an appropriate type of visual feedback -probably related to visual salience- so we can tune the aspects of cognitive reframing and multiple attitudes.
Some preliminary definitions, yet without solid scientific references:
Cognitive restructuring {reframing} in cognitive therapy is the process of learning to refute cognitive distortions, or fundamental “faulty thinking,” with the goal of replacing one’s irrational, counter-factual beliefs with more accurate and beneficial ones.
An Attitude is a mental and neural state of readiness, organized through experience, exerting a directive or dynamic influence upon the individual’s response to all objects and situations with which it is related (Allport, 1935)
The salience (also called saliency) of an item – be it an object, a person, a pixel, etc – is the state or quality by which it stands out relative to its neighbours. Saliency detection is considered to be a key attentional mechanism that facilitates learning and survival by enabling organisms to focus their limited perceptual and cognitive resources on the most pertinent subset of the available sensory data. {this article (Computational modelling of visual attention, 2001, Itti and Koch) and its sources will help defining visual salience}
Let us not forget our context of differentiation over place, time and decision making unit. Nor our emergent understanding about shifting loyalties and their competitiveness.
