Can You Feel The Wind At Your Back?
According to research from Shai Davidai and Thomas Gilovich, probablynot nearly as much as you can feel it in your face. In one classroom exercise, Davidai asks students to google images for headwinds and tailwinds. For headwinds, there is a whole host of images of people being blown backwards and destroyed umbrellas. For tailwinds, not so much (other than the occasional aeronautics diagram of planes.) Images of headwinds are more available to us not just online but in our own minds. |