Cool to have an old article of mine analyzed in this much detail. :) The comparison to another article was interesting, too.
In retrospect, I think that the “it’s okay to be a little irrational” thing works by allowing the irrational behavior or thought to be experienced more completely rather than being pushed down, thus allowing for memory reconsolidation.
Something that the authors emphasize is that when the target schema is activated, there should be no attempt to explicitly argue against it or disprove it, as this risks pushing it down. Rather, the belief update happens when one experiences their old schema as vividly true, while also experiencing an entirely opposite belief as vividly true. It is the juxtaposition of believing X and not-X at the same time, which triggers an inbuilt contradiction-detection mechanism in the brain and forces a restructuring of one’s belief system to eliminate the inconsistency.
Cool to have an old article of mine analyzed in this much detail. :) The comparison to another article was interesting, too.
In retrospect, I think that the “it’s okay to be a little irrational” thing works by allowing the irrational behavior or thought to be experienced more completely rather than being pushed down, thus allowing for memory reconsolidation.