I went to read your blog last week and couldn’t find it. Are you still writing every week day?
Oh my! I thought I had written and posted blogs for the week
of Thanksgiving. That sometimes happens when I see things clearly in my mind’s
eye and then later on thought I had actually done it! According to an article in
the Journal of Experimental
Psychology, the familiarity misattribution theory posits
that “the imagination inflation effect is likely to occur because imagining an event increases familiarity with that event. This familiarity is then misattributed and
interpreted as evidence that the event actually occurred.” Apparently,
this phenomenon is more likely to occur with activities that frequently occur.
I write a blog every weekday. Thinking about doing that ended up as a
perception that I had actually done it for the Thanksgiving week—which,
incidentally, I took off from work. I regret you didn’t find a blog! Now we both
know the reason!
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