IEEE Spectrum
Can Feminist Robots Challenge Our Biases?
2021-11-01 · Robots that don't put up with inappropriate behavior may help bridge engineering's gender divide
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Aeon+Psyche
Is there a symmetry between metacognition and mindreading?
~16 min read · 2021-09-23 · Knowing the content of one’s own mind might seem straightforward but in fact it’s much more like mindreading other people
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Guardian Books
Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem’
7 min read · 2021-05-16 · The psychologist on applying his ideas to organisations, why we’re not equipped to grasp the spread of a virus, and the massive disruption that’s just round the corner
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nature
Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving
4 min read · 2021-04-08 · People tend to solve problems by adding features.
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Anne Helen Petersen
the diminishing returns of productivity culture
10 min read · 2021-02-05 · Xerox Ad, c. 1980 This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider…
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The New York Times
Opinion | The Science of Reasoning With Unreasonable People
6 min read · 2021-01-31 · Don’t try to change someone else’s mind. Instead, help them find their own motivation to change.
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Glamour
‘Revenge Bedtime Procrastination’ Is Real, According to Psychologists
7 min read · 2021-01-28 · You know that thing where you stubbornly stay up late for no reason? Yeah, here's how to stop.
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The New York Times
The Art of the Lie? The Bigger the Better
8 min read · 2021-01-11 · Lying as a political tool is hardly new. But a readiness, even enthusiasm, to be deceived has become a driving force in politics around the world, most recently in the United States.
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Guardian Travel
How intention turns a walk into a pilgrimage
7 min read · 2021-01-13 · The co-author of a book on Britain’s pilgrimages reveals the benefits of structuring a walk around a purpose that is ‘determined by your heart’
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The New York Times
The American Abyss
~19 min read · 2021-01-09 · A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next
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WIRED
Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection
3 min read · 2021-01-07 · Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have spent years fomenting and enabling yesterday's violence at the Capitol. Policymakers need to do something about it.
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The Atlantic
Worst Revolution Ever
7 min read · 2021-01-10 · Attacking the U.S. Capitol is not an act of patriotism. Obviously.
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Aeon+Psyche
Sudden amnesia showed me the self is a convenient fiction
7 min read · 2021-01-11 · Sudden amnesia let me experience what Buddhists and philosophers have been saying all along about the existence of the self
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Aeon+Psyche
Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking
5 min read · 2020-12-24 · Talking out loud to oneself is a technology for thinking that allows us to clarify and sharpen our approach to a problem
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Aeon+Psyche
Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?
6 min read · 2020-12-08 · Turn towards the light: contrary to popular belief, nice guys have more success and happiness in the long run
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medium.com
Why Arguments Still Work
5 min read · 2020-11-13 · As a philosophy professor, the hardest thing to hear is that people are giving up on arguments. And yet, it is common for people to say…
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