Common sense suggests that we infer others’ feelings from their appearance and actions, but we have a different, more direct route to our own feelings: direct perception or introspection. In contrast, self-perception theory suggests that our knowledge of ourselves is exactly like our knowledge of others.
It’s unclear to me how this is related to the overjustification effect. Could you make the connection more explicit for me? As it is it feels like a non sequitur.
My impression is that lukeprog is interweaving material on the overjustification effect and the introspection illusion. The introspection illusion helps to explain why we’re not aware of the overjustification effect in ourselves.
Thanks, that sounds right. I want to say that that was my impression as well, but if I try to be honest with myself I really don’t know if that’s true.
It still seems like a big leap, and from what I understand Luke may be misrepresenting self-perception theory. Luke claims that “our knowledge of ourselves is exactly like our knowledge of others” while your link says that in the introspection illusion “people wrongly think they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating others’ introspections as unreliable” (my emphasis). These sound like different claims and Luke’s is more extraordinary. And for that matter it doesn’t seem necessary or helpful for the ensuing discussion of the overjustification effect.
It occurs to me, though, that I’m just arguing because I’m confused about the material, so I’m going to go read some more.
It’s unclear to me how this is related to the overjustification effect. Could you make the connection more explicit for me? As it is it feels like a non sequitur.
My impression is that lukeprog is interweaving material on the overjustification effect and the introspection illusion. The introspection illusion helps to explain why we’re not aware of the overjustification effect in ourselves.
Thanks, that sounds right. I want to say that that was my impression as well, but if I try to be honest with myself I really don’t know if that’s true.
It still seems like a big leap, and from what I understand Luke may be misrepresenting self-perception theory. Luke claims that “our knowledge of ourselves is exactly like our knowledge of others” while your link says that in the introspection illusion “people wrongly think they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating others’ introspections as unreliable” (my emphasis). These sound like different claims and Luke’s is more extraordinary. And for that matter it doesn’t seem necessary or helpful for the ensuing discussion of the overjustification effect.
It occurs to me, though, that I’m just arguing because I’m confused about the material, so I’m going to go read some more.