The author talks about SSP in this entry -- Selective Sensory Perception. I think I suffer from this quite a bit. In fact, I think that many a husband, father, or just "guy" in general has this same weakness. We filter out things that we deem irrelevant. Like the person who describes another car in an accident "coming out of nowhere," we are blind or ignore signals that showed what was perhaps coming. I do this a lot and consequently miss a lot.