Cognitive Biases: Difference between revisions

Analyzing one's beliefs, preferences, or associations while experiencing personal bias suppression can lead to new perspectives that would take years of in depth psychoanalysis. The suppression of this innate tendency often induces the realization that certain aspects of a person's personality, worldview and culture are not reflective of objective truths about reality, but are in fact subjective or even delusional opinions.<ref>'''Weak phantasy and visionary phantasy: the phenomenological significance of altered states of consciousness'''. Horváth, Lajos; Szummer, Csaba; Szabo, Attila (2017).  ''Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences''. '''17''' (1): 117–129. doi:10.1007/s11097-016-9497-4. ISSN 1568-7759.</ref> This realization often leads to or accompanies deep states of insight and critical introspection which can create significant alterations in a person's perspective that last anywhere from days, weeks, months, or even years after the experience itself. Personal bias suppression is one of the hallmark effects of using [[psychedelics]].