Creatures of Habit.
The Einstellung effect renders people blind to more efficient methods after learning to solve a problem in a certain way. New research shows that even when people believe they are surveying new conceptual terrain, their attention remains locked onto familiar features. Experienced chess players ask...
| Publicado en: | Psychology Today Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 27 - 28 |
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Sussex Publishers Inc.
November/December 2008
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| Sumario: | The Einstellung effect renders people blind to more efficient methods after learning to solve a problem in a certain way. New research shows that even when people believe they are surveying new conceptual terrain, their attention remains locked onto familiar features. Experienced chess players asked to find the shortest route to checkmate all spotted a common five-move maneuver and then kept searching for something better, but they all missed a less-common three-move strategy. Merim Bilalic of Tübingen University in Germany dubs the Einstellung effect “dangerous” due to its invisibility. Chess experts forecast that 74 percent of Masters would find the short checkmate in the shadow of the long one, but just 18 percent did. |
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