Bookmarks tagged “psychology”
137 bookmarks tagged “psychology”
The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet
pThe Gruen Transfer is taking over social media. What is it and how can we avoid it?/p
The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to AI
OSINT used to be a thinking game. Now it’s becoming a trusting game and that should terrify you.I’ve seen it firsthand, analysts running solid investigations, then slowly shifting more and more of the thinking to GenAI tools. At first, it’s small. You use ChatGPT to summarise a d
Health indicators and power ups: The 'freaky and unpleasant' world when video games leak into the ph
Video games are the biggest form of entertainment in the world, but sometimes they bleed into people's lives offline in surprising and disturbing ways.
Fake It Till You Make It: Good Advice or a Setup for Failure?
Imitating confidence, competency, and drive may work for some, but what are the long-term professional implications?
Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is | Quanta Magazine
The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.
The Secret to a Meaningful Life is Simpler Than You Think
Unhappy people fail to recognize what matters, instead becoming overly focused on what they believe is missing from their existence.
The Curse of Knowledge - Ness Labs
The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone incorrectly assumes that others have enough background to understand.
The Assimilationist, or: On the Unexpected Cost of Passing as a Trans Woman
The trouble with finding my true self in the beauty aisles.
Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy
It’s a paradox: Shouldn’t the most accomplished be well equipped to make choices that maximize life satisfaction?
Asking for help is a core developer skill — Rami James
Intentionally or otherwise, I have been blowing up my life since last summer. It has been less than ideal. We will get to why in a second, but first, let us talk about javascript and the impact of package managers, their packages, and the endless toil they create.
The moral imperative to learn from diverse phenomenal experiences | Aeon Es
New research is uncovering the hidden differences in how people experience the world. The consequences are unsettling
Why Performance Matters, Part 3: Tolerance Management — Smashing Magazine
User reaction to a wait online is no different from that in the offline world. Studies based on the analysis of more than a thousand cases identify 14 distinct types of waiting situations on the web. Being dependent on your users' loyalty, you cannot leave them facing a passive w
Why Performance Matters, Part 2: Perception Management — Smashing Magazine
When we talk about the user’s perception of time, we mean psychological time, or brain time. This time is of interest to psychologists, neuroscientists and odd individuals like me. Objective time is dealt with by technical means, and those means have limits that become insurmount
To understand AI sentience, first understand it in animals | Aeon Essays
As the power of AI grows, we need to have evidence of its sentience. That is why we must return to the minds of animals
Are meetings making you less productive? - Stack Overflow Blog
What’s different about these layoffs - Stack Overflow Blog
Why your consciousness depends on the low-entropy early Universe | Psyche I
What would your time-reverse twin think and feel walking back from the present into the past? And why does it matter?
How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.
Finding Language in the Brain | The MIT Press Reader
Psycholinguist Giosuè Baggio sheds light on the thrilling, evolving field of neurolinguistics, where neuroscience and linguistics meet.
Does Money Buy Happiness?
In most of the world, yes. In the United States, not any more.
High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being | PNAS
Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality of an individua...
How Wanting Less Leads to Satisfaction - The Atlantic
The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff.
Are You the Same Person You Used to Be? | The New Yorker
Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are. Joshua Rothman on “The Origins of You,” by Richie Poulton, Jay Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, and Terrie E. Moffitt; and “Life Is Hard,” by Kieran Setiya.