#Cognitive

Been seeing a lot of autistic-ADHD discourse on my timeline, so some thoughts?So basically I think that autism and ADHD are distinct conditions with a high cooccurrence rate (currently seems
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How academic psychology tries (and fails) to dunk on astrology, a thread. 1/https://twitter.com/500livesasafox/status/1259255911102722049 The root of the problem is a construct called “magical thinking” that developmental psychologists like Piaget us
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This is what I call the chilling affect. @AmnestyIreland with their clout as an international human rights organisation tell you that people who criticise a letter are decontextualising phrases in
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Yeah, err... when you leak information about the combat capabilities of a national asset, getting cashiered is probably the least you can expect. When you do so circumventing the entire
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Today marks 7 months of living with COVID symptoms. I still feel like a shell of the person I was, but I thought I'd give some updates on this thread,
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hm. okay. I feel like I'm missing a lot of information here, and not that anyone asked, but here we go:From my understanding, teampinata is under fire because an old
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I see lots of tweets on astrology but not much on MBTI. I've noticed some interest these days as carats have been reposting @pledis_17 results during the MBTI #GoSeSo I
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I'm getting e-mails about this lovely new illusion that appears to show cognitive penetration of perception! Could it really be that these little arrows completely change our perception of motion
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I have read @daisychristo's latest book 'Teachers vs Tech?' and it is simply brilliant - I cannot recommend it highly enough. Here are some of my takeaways in a thread...
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what i wish leftists knew: disability is both a physical experience and an economic status. it announces how well your body can perform under capitalism. it is forced poverty--ppl recognized
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I wrote about the apocalyptic death cult of White Christian Evangelicism when Trump was elected, and I truly wish it were growing less relevant. https://hazlitt.net/feature/year-apocalypses https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/1078298857
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It just seems so *reasonable* to say "there might be some evidence, just let the process play out," whether the claim is "there was massive voter fraud" or "UFOs are
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So SPI-M released their report on the next wave of COVID armageddon. It's a little weird so strap on your cognitive dissonance specs to take it all in. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachmen
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"shop as normal" is well-intentioned for avoiding stockpiling & leaving shelves empty for others. it's a little more complex than that for many. there have been excellent discussions about the
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1/ A thread on DECISION MAKING.Big decisions are gut-wrenching, but really they shouldn't be. In this thread, I write about "metathinking", a process that helps me take decisions confidently. 2/
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I appreciate where this thread is headed, but I think this is so much more complicated than it accounts for.https://twitter.com/NylaTheMusical/status/1254499747160821763 For one, "capitalist" has a specific meaning. Capitalists are people
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