Making Categories

How do we limit ourselves?
by Alison Bonds Shapiro, M.B.A. in Healing Into Possibility
Originally published online by Psychology Today

Our brains are constantly seeking ways to manage information overload both through limiting the amount of stimuli we are willing to notice and through creating categories into which to fit things. Both sensory information limits and categories help our brains be efficient.

To define a category we choose, consciously or unconsciously, a limited set of criteria to describe the category. The criteria we choose are based on any number of things, including experience, acquired information and emotional responses.

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