Comments on: Why Do We Do Things We Know Are Bad for the Environment? https://allpsych.com/why-do-we-do-things-we-know-are-bad-for-the-environment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-do-we-do-things-we-know-are-bad-for-the-environment The Virtual Psychology Classroom Thu, 04 Nov 2021 03:00:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Neil Petersen https://allpsych.com/why-do-we-do-things-we-know-are-bad-for-the-environment/#comment-2421 Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:05:48 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=475#comment-2421 In reply to Idadho.

True, emotion directing the intellect can lead people to believe all sorts of things.

]]> By: Idadho https://allpsych.com/why-do-we-do-things-we-know-are-bad-for-the-environment/#comment-2420 Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:45:56 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=475#comment-2420 This is quite easy to understand. Since the brain processes emotional thought before it processes intellectual thought, the prior use has calmed the emotional thought so it has minimal control or impact. Reading the warning is an intellectual process that cannot override the previously complacent emotion that was rewarded by reducing the bug population.
When the emotion is directed by the intellect to be concerned and complacency has not been established by prior use, the emotion has the ability to take the warning and use it to impact use of the pesticide.
But, this author needs to stay within his specialty. Many of us know how to process science issues and know that ‘man caused global warming’ is a scam and that natural forces are causing climate change like they have for thousands of years. We don’t live in fear of passing gas (methane) or exhaling CO2.

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