Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Friday, August 11, 2023

The immaturity of America's therapeutic culture

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I  recommend reading the most recent NYTimes David Brook's piece , and pass on here ChatGPT 4's response to my request to summarize ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Proxy Failure is an Inherent Risk in Goal-Oriented Systems

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I will pass on the title and abstract of another article to appear in Behavioral and Brain Science for which reviewers comments are being so...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

The psychological illusion of "The Good Old Days"

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Mastroianni and Gilbert (open access) do a nice study illustrating that the the universal perception of our ongoing moral decline is a psyc...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning A.I. model

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A fascinating open source article from Piloto et al. in Nature Human Behaviour that addresses a major shortcoming of current artifician int...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Sleepless and unhelpful

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Simon et al. demonstrate that sleep loss leads to the withdrawal of human helping across individuals, groups, and large-scale societies: ...
Monday, December 20, 2021

The Point is to Stop - a farewell to self help coaching

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I want to pass on some points, paraphrase, and central clips from what is essentially a swan song offered by Mark Manson in his latest news...
Monday, November 08, 2021

It’s Quitting Season

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I want to pass on two articles with the similar themes of people taking stock of their lives and deciding to stop making themselves unhappy....
Monday, November 01, 2021

What the mind is - similarities and differences in concepts of mental life in five cultures

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From Weisman et al. , who do a fascinating study of cognitive structures 'from the bottom up', allowing data to give rise to ontolog...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Is self awareness a mirage?

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David Brooks does a brief psychological essay - a sequel to one described in MindBlog's Sept. 10 post . One of the most unsettling fi...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Secure human attachment can promote support for climate change mitigation

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From Misa et al. :  Significance Attachment theory focuses on the primal form of emotional bonding between humans. Attachment is conceptua...
Friday, April 09, 2021

The Psychology of Fake News

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Pennycook and Rand do a fascinating open source article in Trends in Cognitive Science on the psychology of fake news.  Their highlights an...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Passion matters but not equally everywhere.

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From Li et al. :   Significance In three large-scale datasets representing adolescents from 59 societies across the globe, we find eviden...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Traces of psychedelics make you feel good, but so does placebo.

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From Balázs Szigeti et al. : Microdosing is the practice of regularly using low doses of psychedelic drugs. Anecdotal reports suggest that ...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Changing basic personality traits with a smartphone App?

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A group of Swiss researchers has taken direct aim at trying to modify, in a digital intervention experiment with ~1,500 participants, the b...
Friday, March 05, 2021

Lifestyle and mental health disruptions during COVID-19

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From Giuntella et al :   Significance COVID-19 has affected daily life in unprecedented ways. Drawing on a longitudinal dataset of colleg...
Tuesday, March 02, 2021

Avoiding psychological biases that trick your brain.

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The monthly Austin Rainbow Forum discussion group which I help organize meets on the first Sunday afternoon of each month, and I thought I w...
Monday, February 08, 2021

Timing matters when correcting fake news

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 From Brashier et al. : Countering misinformation can reduce belief in the moment, but corrective messages quickly fade from memory. We tes...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Are you holding your breath?

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Note; This is a repeat of a post that I did on Jan. 28, 2008. Its theme led me to develop a lecture titled " Are you holding your brea...
Friday, June 12, 2020

The psyche is not inside us but between us.

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I want to pass on a few clips from an article by psychotherapist James Barnes on the work and ideas of Donald Winnicott (1896-1971), a cent...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Making Us/Them Dichotomies More Benign.

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I'm reposting this item from 2016 as particularly relevant to the present.... Interesting thoughts from Robert Sapolsky: A truly disc...