I was talking about the means, whereby one alters one’s “search priorities” when seeking to understand situations involving the target. This sort of selective perception may not be a direct corruption of existing knowledge, but it still constitutes an attention bias akin to privileging a hypothesis.
I agree that the emotional aspect isn’t relevant to my concern, though I could imagine having instrumental qualms somewhat analogous to the above.
These techniques don’t seem to be in conflict with epistemic hygiene or epistemic rationality to me. They’re modifying emotions, not knowledge.
I was talking about the means, whereby one alters one’s “search priorities” when seeking to understand situations involving the target. This sort of selective perception may not be a direct corruption of existing knowledge, but it still constitutes an attention bias akin to privileging a hypothesis.
I agree that the emotional aspect isn’t relevant to my concern, though I could imagine having instrumental qualms somewhat analogous to the above.