Cognitive Dissonance in Societal Hot-Button Discourses
Personal Perspective: The debate over trans athletes in women's sports is indicative of how politically driven confirmation bias can drive stressful cognitive dissonance.
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Personal Perspective: The debate over trans athletes in women's sports is indicative of how politically driven confirmation bias can drive stressful cognitive dissonance.
Scientists are as prone as anyone else to groupthink, and stifling dissent often produces disaster.
Collective, selective persecution complex Recently, a...
David Robinson said OpenAI was racing ahead with development, despite repeated warnings about the capabilities of new models.
When logic gets labelled as treason, that’s when the smartest people in the room simply stop speaking.Continue reading on Medium »
"Our results suggest that people often prefer AI to reinforce their existing views and may discount its response when it disagrees..."
[Below is an excerpt from the excellent new book, Kill Switch: The History of How Viruses Shaped Humanity and Led to COVID-19, by Richard Burt. We highly recommend it. This portion...
Educational level, not poverty, significantly increases the likelihood of exhibiting flexible cognitive processing on complex or nuanced topics.
Do you really understand groupthink? The Abilene paradox?
When did facts or verifiable evidence get replaced by consensus within a specific community that continually repeats collectively held ideas or feelings? And is this trend why, eve...
Join Hrvoje, Mike, and Monica once again as they break down the events of the day and expose the agendas driving the narratives. This week, the crew examines how the technate might...
The concept of gullicism (a tendency to be both cynical and gullible) poses many dangers, especially in a world in which AI blurs the line between truth and nontruth.
In this month's edition, we dive deep into a narrative used by leaders in the United States and other countries to delegitimize protests.
Ships can’t navigate a reality that exists only in Trump’s head.
Anti-Conspiracy Fanatics: Psychologically Brainwashed Wards of the StateGary D. Barnett‘Conspiracy theory’ is a term that strikes fear and anxiety in the hearts of most every publi...
Everyone, you might say. But I don’t think so. Them? Us? A little of both, I’m sure. So what’s the point? If you can determine who is brainwashed, you know who to keep your mouth s...
Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” From his vantage point in the nineteenth century, he was expressing frustration with th...
Educator Joanne Calder shares strategies that can improve thinking and our world.
What happens when telling a leader what they want to hear becomes safer than telling them what they need to hear?In a healthy organisation, the opposing perspective is not a sign o...
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