Judgmental? Better check your facts.

Moral judgments affect memory

Call me crazy. Call me naive. Or Miss-Know-It-All. But just know that if you call me any one of those things and judge me for what I have to say, your memory of the facts might not hold up. It's true. Science says so. A couple of posts ago, I judged - myself, Donna Maddock, and anyone else who gets behind the wheel of a car and isn't totally focused on the road. You can see my judgment right in the title: "Cells Phones + Driving = Bad." If I was tested after I first read about that study, I might have gotten some of the facts wrong. Being judgmental might have clouded my judgment of the science. The same thing might have happened to you when you read something that makes you form a negative or positive opinion about someone or something. Lucky for me and you - since you're reading this, I read, re-read and research this stuff before I spout off my judgments on the Internet. That's a more than I can say for a lot of bloggers out there... Oops! Did I judge again?