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How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
4 min · · Science journalist David McRaney shares 5 key insights from his new book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion. · Shared by 90, including Matteo Furia
IEEE
Can Feminist Robots Challenge Our Biases?
· Robots that don't put up with inappropriate behavior may help bridge engineering's gender divide · Shared by 63, including Erico Guizzo, Evan Ackerman, Matteo Furia, Carla Gentry 🎶
Aeon+Psyche
Is there a symmetry between metacognition and mindreading?
16+ min · · Knowing the content of one’s own mind might seem straightforward but in fact it’s much more like mindreading other people · Shared by 117, including Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Matteo Furia, Anita Leirfall, Gregg Caruso, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Gabriele
Guardian Books
Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem’
7 min · · 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 · Shared by 826, including Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, @grzewap@mastodon.social, ExApologist, Marcel Salathé, John Tasioulas, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Kyle Bunch, Bob E. Hayes, Matt Ridley, Gerd Leonhard, Martin Ford, Anita Leirfall, Simon Lee, John Nosta, Howard Getson, Nige Roberts-Willson, Dean Anthony Gratton, Matteo Furia
nature
Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving
4 min · · People tend to solve problems by adding features. · Shared by 1140, including Bob Sutton, Patrick Sanwikarja, Peter Herger, Esther Schindler, Christopher Lauer™, Gabriele, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Luzius Meisser, Arie Goldshlager, Filippo Antonio Capizzi, Stephan Woodtli, Kyle Bunch, Matteo Furia, davidabrock, Benjamin, Zach Seward, Bas Grasmayer, Mark Kaigwa, William Gibson, Patrick Collison
Anne Helen Petersen
the diminishing returns of productivity culture
10 min · · 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… · Shared by 288, including Tanmoy, Nils Hitze, Ellen Shapiro, Carrie Brown, Mark Needham, Stephanie A Kowalski, Jeff Atwood, Matteo Furia, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Matt Zoller Seitz
The New York Times
Opinion | The Science of Reasoning With Unreasonable People
6 min · · Don’t try to change someone else’s mind. Instead, help them find their own motivation to change. · Shared by 827, including Chloe Abrasada, Jonathan Haidt, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Nancy, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Liv 😷, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Carrie Brown, Adam Grant, davidabrock, Katja Evertz, ⭐️Danielle Guzman ⭐️, Justin Jackson, Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸, Guy Kawasaki, Lee Keyes, Michael (मुकेश), Howard Getson, Stephanie A Kowalski, Nir Eyal
Glamour
‘Revenge Bedtime Procrastination’ Is Real, According to Psychologists
7 min · · You know that thing where you stubbornly stay up late for no reason? Yeah, here's how to stop. · Shared by 371, including Nir Eyal, Gisele Navarro, Matteo Furia, Lee Keyes
The New York Times
The Art of the Lie? The Bigger the Better
8 min · · 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. · Shared by 142, including Thomas Power, Matteo Furia, Richard Dawkins, Millie Tran, Gabriele, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Christian Surchi, Scott Murray, Lynn Cherny, Esther Schindler, Michael Shermer
The Guardian
How intention turns a walk into a pilgrimage
7 min · · 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’ · Shared by 41, including Jason Silva, Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola, Matteo Furia
The New York Times
The American Abyss
19+ min · · A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next · Shared by 839, including Niall Ferguson, Jeff Zeleny, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Charles Arthur, Wolfgang Blau, Matt Goodwin, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Barry Ritholtz, Nouriel Roubini, emily bell, felix salmon, Brian Stelter, Jason Stanley, Kevin M. Kruse, Stefan Ottlitz @hierprivat@mastodon.social, Jay Rosen, John Battelle, Ida Bae Wells, Rob Wijnberg, Alfie Kohn
WIRED
Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection
3 min · · Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have spent years fomenting and enabling yesterday's violence at the Capitol. Policymakers need to do something about it. · Shared by 189, including Steve Silberman, Tom Connor, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gabriele, luis antónio santos, Matteo Furia, rogerverhoeven, Amicitia, Backchannel, Morten Gade, Deborah Blum, Zephyr Teachout, Karen K. Ho, Scott Galloway
The Atlantic
Worst Revolution Ever
7 min · · Attacking the U.S. Capitol is not an act of patriotism. Obviously. · Shared by 169, including Kevin Roose, W. Blake Gray, Memen Isimo, Niall Ferguson, Scott McLeod, Making Sense Podcast, Carolyn Porco, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Mathew Ingram, Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician), Matteo Furia, Klaus Eck, Jeffrey Flier, Andrew Sullivan, Scott Galloway
Aeon+Psyche
Sudden amnesia showed me the self is a convenient fiction
7 min · · Sudden amnesia let me experience what Buddhists and philosophers have been saying all along about the existence of the self · Shared by 271, including Gregor B. Rosenauer, Matteo Furia, Matthias Lampe, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Vaughan Bell, Anita Leirfall, Massimo Pigliucci, Gregg Caruso, Dr. A.S. Barwich, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Jason Silva
Aeon+Psyche
Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking
5 min · · Talking out loud to oneself is a technology for thinking that allows us to clarify and sharpen our approach to a problem · Shared by 367, including Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Matteo Furia, Esther Schindler, Doug Sundheim, Jane, Chris {he, they} , Adam Grant, Anita Leirfall, 👨✈️ AA-Admiral ⚓🚀🌌, ⭐️Danielle Guzman ⭐️, Andrew Ermogenous, Mike Taylor, Jason Silva
Aeon+Psyche
Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?
6 min · · Turn towards the light: contrary to popular belief, nice guys have more success and happiness in the long run · Shared by 224, including Katja Evertz, Rand Fishkin, Anita Leirfall, Stowe Boyd, Timothy Lomauro, Bilal Aslam, Matteo Furia, Randy Mane