Perception literacy means noticing how you arrive at a view of a situation, including the details you observed and the expectations, interpretations or omissions that helped shape it.
You don’t need to become suspicious of every impression. You need room to ask what you are treating as known.
The message didn’t include a tone of voice.
It said, "Fine."
You supplied the irritation, remembered the last disagreement and began preparing your defence.
They may be irritated. But several steps happened between the word on the screen and the argument in your head.
I AWAKE’s Hidden Hero’s Journey explores those steps through the domain Sky. The book Meteorology of the Mind gives perception an imaginative landscape in which changing weather can help you examine changing views, with the actual situation kept in sight.
Another explanation isn’t valuable merely because it sounds nicer. It should help you notice more, ask more precisely or understand what remains uncertain.
Inference separates a conclusion from an observation. Confirmation bias looks at what happens when the details you notice keep agreeing with what you already believe.
Noba’s Judgment and Decision Making examines the ways people evaluate information. It is relevant to the small but consequential difference between feeling certain and knowing why a conclusion is supported.