Showing posts with label social cognition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social cognition. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Human distinctiveness and Artificial Intelligence

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I pass on some random thoughts occasioned by the previous post. What is distinctive about humans? -There are millions of humans, there can...
Friday, March 29, 2024

How communication technology has enabled the corruption of our communication and culture .

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I pass on two striking examples from today’s New York Times, with few clips of text from each: A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Cultu...
Monday, March 25, 2024

If you want to remember a landscape be sure to include a human....

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Fascinating observations by Jimenez et al.   on our inherent human drive to understand our vastly social world...(and in the same issue of P...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Explaining the evolution of gossip

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 A fascinating open source article from Pan et al. : Significance From Mesopotamian cities to industrialized nations, gossip has been at ...
Monday, May 15, 2023

People who talk too much

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I host a monthly discussion group in Austin TX, The Austin Rainbow Forum, that meets at 2 pm on the first Sunday of every month to consider ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

A.I. as a path towards mass lunacy

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MindBlog wants to be part of the passing on of this elegantly stated clip from an article by novelist, literary critic, and essayist Walte...
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Market exposure and human morality

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In the face of resurgent threats to place religion over the rest of civil society, and specious claims that we can't have a moral socie...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The Evolution of Peace

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I pass on the abstract of an article by Luke Glowacki that has been submitted to the network of Behavioral and Brain Science reviewers who m...
Monday, January 09, 2023

AI After Death: interactions with AI representations of the deceased

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 I want to pass on to MindBlog readers the following excellent notes that Terry Allard made to guide a discussion at the Nov. 29, 2022 sessi...
Monday, November 28, 2022

The Computational Society

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The most recent issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences presents a forum in its 25th Anniversary Series: Looking Forward. Several of the cont...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Poisoned by Twitter - Trump, Musk and Kanye

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Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist whose writing is always worth reading, has done a succinct must-read kind of piece in the NYTimes . I th...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Well being increases with diversity of social connections.

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From Collins et al. :  Significance The link between social connection and well-being is well-documented: Happier people tend to spend more...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Observing the activity of our prosocial brains

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Interesting work from Lockwood et al. , open source with nice graphics:   Highlights • Prosocial behaviors frequently involve exe...
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: ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Neural synchronization predicts marital satisfaction

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From Li et al. :   Significance Humans establish intimate social and personal relationships with their partners, which enable them to surv...
Monday, August 29, 2022

The medium really is the message

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I recommend that you read a recent Op-Ed piece by Ezra Klein that notes 20th-century media theorists who saw what was coming and tried to w...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior

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Keysers et al. do an open source review of studies on emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents, whose brain regions necessary ...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience - a fascinating journal, many open source articles

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Rather than charging in to do separate posts on several of the following fascinating articles, I pass them on for readers to click and choos...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Harmonics of the social brain

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Interesting work from Mague et al. on the brain-wide network in mice that encodes rewarding social experience:  Highlights • Mach...
Monday, May 09, 2022

The prosocial effect of touching - the Midas touch effect.

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Schaefer et al. (open source) examine the neural underpinnings of how light touching enhances prosocial behavior. Their abstract: Giving ...