Selective attention.

Selective attention is a psychological process by which we pay disproportionate attention to things we think are important or worthy, while filtering out most anything that does not register as such.rZ1


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    Arnold M. Zwicky, “Why Are We so Illuded?,” September 2006, https://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/LSA07illude.abst.pdf. (See notes.)