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Bounded awareness: what you fail to see can hurt you

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Author	Chugh, Dolly Bazerman, Max H.
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	We argue that people often fail to perceive and process stimuli easily available to them. In other words, we challenge the tacit assumption that awareness is unbounded and provide evidence that humans regularly fail to see and use stimuli and information easily available to them. We call this phenomenon “bounded awareness” (Bazerman and Chugh in Frontiers of social psychology: negotiations, Psychology Press: College Park 2005). We begin by first describing perceptual mental processes in which obvious information is missed—that is, simply not seen—by the visual perceiver. Inattentional blindness and change blindness are examples. We then extend this phenomenon to decision making and forecasting, using evidence about focalism to illustrate how people over focus on some information and fail to use other easily available information. We next examine how these processes of bounded awareness may extend to other important domains and across levels of analysis, such as information-sharing in groups, decision making in negotiators, and in competitive bidding situations such as auctions.Bounded awareness is a phenomenon that encompasses a variety of psychological processes, all of which lead to the same error: a failure to see, seek, use, or share important and relevant information that is easily seen, sought, used, or shared.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	18
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15937879
Journal	Mind & Society
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	18601839
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2007-01-19
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Bounded awareness Focusing Focalism Winner’s curse Bounded rationality Inattentional blindness Change blindness Cognitive Psychology Philosophy of Science Sociology Methodology of the Social Sciences Economics general
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Sociology and Political Science Experimental and Cognitive Psychology History Economics, Econometrics and Finance Social Psychology Cultural Studies

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