There's an established psychological effect called "verbal overshadowing."

· Bits and Bobs 7/20/26
  • There's an established psychological effect called "verbal overshadowing."
    • For example, if you ask people to think of adjectives to describe a wine they just tasted, they'll have a harder time picking that same wine out of a lineup later.
    • Same thing happens with eyewitness reports and identifying a suspect out of a lineup.
    • There's a difference between concepts and percepts.
    • The concepts are more abstract and must be abducted out of your percepts.
    • Doing the work to abduct the concepts overshadows the percepts.