Selective Inattention - by Colin Wright

Posted by Sebrina Pilcher on Thursday, June 6, 2024

In psychology, "selective inattention" refers to a person's lack of attention toward a stimuli or entity.

In many cases this response seems to be the consequence of our brains trying to protect us from an unpleasant stimuli-response: stress, anxiety, fear, sadness—that kind of thing.

Sometimes this same mechanism, if still well-meaning in the sense that i…

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