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Chris Willamson, George Mack, Social Dynamics, Sociology -

Why Can No One Think Rationally Anymore? - George Mack

Why Can No One Think Rationally Anymore? - George Mack

George Mack is a writer, marketer and an entrepreneur. Thinking for yourself is one of the most important skills you can develop. However it's hard. It's a difficult task to overcome the boring, negative, irrational trends around you.

Which is why you need some new tools in your mental models box. Expect to learn what the Keynsian Beauty Contest is, why memes are so influential in society today, which behaviours appear positive but actually harm you in disguise, what the forgetting paradox is, what the most useful emotional state is, why “ignorance is bliss” is a putdown in 2023 and much more... 

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John Barry, Martin Seager, Media, Social Dynamics, Social media, Woke Ideology -

Gamma Bias: Cognitive Distortion in Thinking About Gender. By Martin Seager & John Barry, at UCL.

Gamma Bias: Cognitive Distortion in Thinking About Gender. By Martin Seager & John Barry, at UCL.
Cognitive distortions occur when we process information in ways that result in verifiable errors in thinking. In the study of gender, two biases have been identified: alpha bias, where researchers emphasise gender differences, and beta bias where researchers minimise gender differences. In this presentation we postulate a newly identified cognitive distortion in relation to gender, gamma bias, which simultaneously magnifies some aspects of gender and minimises others. This presentation also showcases an animation, created with the help of Jordan Holbrook, which visually demonstrates gamma bias and the gender distortion matrix. See also The new book chapter by Seager & Barry: 'Cognitive Distortion in Thinking About Gender Issues: Gamma Bias and the Gender Distortion Matrix' in The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030043834 DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-04384-1 ISBN 978-3-030-04383-4 Blog on this topic: https://malepsychology.org.uk/2018/12/04/why-are-there-so-many-disagreements-about-gender-issues-its-usually-down-to-gamma-bias/

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