Appreciating everyday errors is held to be important for understanding how decisions and judgments are formed and as evidence of psychical determinism¶

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r? · q1
Currency · newest study 1911 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q1 i? The appreciation of everyday errors is important both practically and theoretically, for understanding the way decisions and judgments are formed and as evidence of thoroughgoing psychical determinism. → Mayer 1911

Evidence¶

Mayer 1911¶

Mayer, H. (1911). The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. American Journal of Psychology, 22, 477-527. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1412853

q1 · i? · theoretical · r?

Concluding interpretive statement of the review, asserting the practical and theoretical importance of everyday errors for "the understanding of the way in which decisions and judgments are formed." No data are offered in support.

"The appreciation of these everyday errors is important, both practically and theoretically, for the understanding of the way in which decisions and judgments are formed and for the evidence it affords of thoroughgoing psychical determinism."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Everyday mental errors are determined by unconscious motives rather than chance, according to the psychoanalytic argument reviewed — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• The mechanism underlying everyday errors is held to be similar to that underlying serious mental disturbances such as hysteria and allied neuroses — related