Researchers can compartmentalize knowledge across roles and overlook implications.

Evidence

But because I store my lectures in a different compartment of my brain “(teaching department) than I use to conjure up studies (research department), I have managed for many years to ignore the possibility that authoritarianism could have genetic roots. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 881

Categorization

• CANDY: A charming self-deprecating observation about cognitive compartmentalization between teaching and research.
• XREF: connects to: Critical Theory held that researchers are part of the social object they study — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 299