Where does confidence – BBC

Without confidence, we can not accept any solution: borrow, sign statements of resignation, to move to another city. But for a long time it was not known how it formed the property of the individual, the core of which acts as a positive assessment of the person’s own skills and abilities

Now, American scientists from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory conducted a study and found:. Confidence formed by the statistical processing algorithm in the brain. The text of the work can be available in the journal Neuron

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in the study, researchers created a video game, the meaning of which is as follows: participants heard a series of clicks. The researchers asked the volunteers to celebrate what clicks were made faster. His choice of the participants of the experiment at the same time should have been evaluated on a scale of 1 (I’m sure, but not completely) to 5 (exactly sure).

scientists seated Then volunteers to two buttons on each of which was written the name of the country. Participants of the experiment had to press the button with the name of the country, where, according to them, more people live

As a result of the study, researchers found:. Confidence generated by the brain on the basis of statistical data. “This is by analogy with computer calculations, – comment on the work of the authors. – It turns out, there is a sense of confidence on the basis of complex calculations, which are made in our heads. ” The authors of the work believe that their study proves that people are much better than the computer, finds a solution in difficult situations

Also, scientists have proved that. People rely on their intuition only . if they lack knowledge or experience

«our subjective evaluation of skills and abilities based on objective processes in our brain,” – commented the authors of the study

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By the way, earlier mathematics from Cornell University have developed a model that shows what kind of thinking – intuitive or rational – was characteristic of humanity at different stages of its development. The work was published in Chaos magazine.

«We conducted research and found that in the history of mankind were the times, when dominated by people who think” slow “and rationally, and periods of” rapid “intuitive thinking.

In the neurosciences and psychology received a lot of evidence of the existence of these types of thinking.

We also wanted to know why they are exactly the kind that is, “- commented scientists

According to the proposed mathematical model, over time, people did not become more rational, as might be expected.. In fact, rational thinking is cyclical – it can be compared with the four phases of economic activity: recession, depression and boom lift. The study’s authors argue that the dominance of rationality or intuition depends on the amount of resources available to humanity, and believe their work could shed light on the evolution of the human mind.