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Believing Is Seeing: Thoughts Color Perception — Implications From Everyday Misunderstandings To Eyewitness Memory

September 3, 2009 by

Folk wisdom usually has it that "seeing is believing," but new research suggests that "believing is seeing," too -- at least when it comes to perceiving other people's emotions. Researchers have found that the way we initially think about the emotions of others biases our subsequent perception (and memory) of their facial expressions.