#Groupthink

The problem with contrarianism or trutherism is that it's motivated by the desire to be free from the slavishness of groupthink, but it so easily becomes reflexively taking up the

Dennis S Brotman 🇺🇸 #DemCast #DemCastGA

TrumpismMass psychogenic illness involves the spread of illness symptoms through a population where there is no viral or bacterial agent responsible for contagion. MPI is distinct from other types of

One of the reasons I'm relaxed about the evolution of @NYTimes into the American @Guardian is that I feel both it and the @NewYorker have both an unhealthy hegemonic position

I want to know how the government has mishandled the last five days so badly? A slogan everyone is laughing at, an easing that now isn't, devolved leaders saying this

Cancel culture leads us to anti-intellectualism. A thread— (1) Cancel cultureIt’s a loaded term. At its best, it’s holding public figures or organizations accountable for shameful behavior. At its worst,

Worth adding this video for a half-hour Continuing Education Credit for just about any organization.... #AbileneParadoxPlus, it's entertaining:https://www.coursera.org/lecture/social-psychology/assigned-video-4-1-the-abilene-paradox-iYTZw Well I

The comparisons with #Orwell & 1984 now too numerous to ignore. It's something of a parody of a prediction of course (you hope), but the early days of #IngSoc and

TorytheLinguist

Groupthink: are there any articles concerning ASL acquisition by deaf children of deaf parents that are younger than 2008 (i.e., 2009 to present)? All that I've found is of oral

Why is it taking so long for the German government to abandon its failed China policy of 'change through trade'? A thread 1/11 When it comes to the People's Republic

Good thread. We definitely have a groupthink problem in the IC as much as in other parts of society. Thinking more systematically about risk (incl community, health, national security) would

Ronnie Glickman

Getting spattered with political views from both sides on my timeline and I just wonder - why are people so eager to align themselves with one side/set of beliefs and

Activist movements raise the salience of particular issues thereby generating the attention and energy required to address them -- but the means adopted to do so can often derange the

Prof Zhang Weiying with an important warning in the Oct 2020 edition of Dushu magazine: “How to avoid falling into the ‘four traps’” (如何避免陷入“四个陷阱”)https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5pzEc0LXEB3RPydC0eFUJA The essay d

LombardiHimself

Aside from not knowing the 49ers' pick, much of the staff thought it'd be Mac Jones. Shanahan let the staff marinate in smokescreen: "When you get an opportunity to go

Michael: I am very aware of the pain that 10 million unemployed Americans (maybe 15 million now, we’ll see Thursday) are suffering for a “pandemic” that now appears unlikely to

I don’t denounce my friends when I disagree with them. If you do, then you don’t actually have friends, you only have political alliances, and your life will be filled