Gemma Speig
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 7 May
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So I unconsciously, throughout every day I would wake up and I would be searching for evidence of this pre-existing expectation.
And I was probably even creating situations that matched my expectations without realizing it.
When I was on the train, I started to realize that I would only notice the people who like didn't give up their seats for the elderly.
I would only notice the people who bumped into me or the people who wouldn't move out of somebody's way.
I never at the time noticed the people who were being kind or the kid with like the new Barbie doll or like the couple in love.
Both of those groups of people were present, but I was only noticing one half.
It was this filter I was applying onto the world around me, when in fact, the world was rather neutral.
There were some people who were being annoying, some people who were being fantastic, most people who were just existing.
I could only see the annoying people.
Psychologically, to give this a name, this is called mood congruent perception.
Basically, our pre-existing feelings about something are
go on to incorrectly dictate what we see, what we remember, what we experience in a way that does not match objective reality.
This was actually first described by Gordon Bauer.
He is like one of the most, you might not know this, he's one of the most famous cognitive psychologists.
Fun fact, Gordon Bauer is actually a creator of mnemonic devices.
He's also responsible for like so much of what we know about memory and short-term and long-term memory and working memory and
But he identified this specific phenomena, mood congruent perception, in the 80s when he noticed that he could get people to remember different aspects of a situation, not by changing the situation, but by changing how they felt.
So he would deliberately make them angry, make them sad, make them frustrated, and then be like, what did you notice about the situation?
whatever mental and mood-like state he put them in would actually almost systematically change what they saw.
We have to be aware of this attentional bias.
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