Culture of self-deceptions in collective and individual practices

The humans often adopt a cultural belief that was generated by a self-deception Institutions often perpetuate cultural self-deceptions, such as that there is something “holy” about the king, that a “holy” book is the actual word of God, that there is something mythical about the correctness of a law. Parallel to the self-deceptions that occur within a person there are collective self-deceptions that occur when people disagree within a group. Again positive elements are selected and negative elements are rejected. The majority in the group wants to see the world in a certain way, because of their ambition, anxiety, status-seeking, face saving, illusions, or prejudices. Categories have emotional loadings - some are “good” and some are “bad.” Evaluation is the most important aspect of stimuli and is most likely to be perceived when humans have to make judgments under stress or in a limited time showed that the more information in the environment the more likely are people to use positive responses. When confronted with many stimuli, humans select those stimuli that are most useful, pleasant, and intense or least undesirable, and avoid those that are unpleasant, offensive, disgusting or anxiety producing. They consciously perceive the pleasant and avoid the unpleasant. In perception humans select pleasant and avoid unpleasant information. Humans tend to perceive what is pleasant and what is intense. Extremely pleasant or unpleasant experiences are processed equally accurately. Performance is optimal when the stimuli are both pleasant and intense, next best when the stimuli are unpleasant and intense, and worst when the stimuli are neutral (neither pleasant or unpleasant or intense). Nevertheless, there are some conditions when unpleasant stimuli are perceived quickly (perceptual vigilance). This happens when survival depends on the perception of these stimuli. Certainly, if a tiger is attacking those who have the self-deception that “all is well” will not be around to be counted!