Martin Seligman is famous for a learned helplessness study I wrote about a few years back: In a famous experiment, dogs were put in a compartment and trained to jump a barrier when given an electric shock. After one or two tries, the dogs jumped the barrier immediately after being
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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Gerard Di Trolio discusses the need for an active labour movement to respond to the contempt for collective action shared by the Libs and the Cons. And Nicole Goodkind reports on the Trump administration’s plan to deprive workers of billions in wages by
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Neurobiology of Sexual Assault – Why Do We Have ‘Unnaturally’ High Attrition Rate for Sexual Assault?
Watch the presentation or read the full transcript here. Now watch what happens when we bring an empirical fact based approach to understanding why our justice system is broken when it comes to sexual assault. So, now we have some evidence of what is happening to people who have experienced
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Syndrome “E” – The Neuroscience of Evil
Why do people do evil actions? How does one get from being an ordinary citizen to someone who oversees the genocide of their neighbours? What are the psychological states that premeditate acts of violence on the personal and societal level? Noga Arikha is a historian who has looked into
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Escaping the Male Gaze – A Process
For those who don’t get the male gaze, another similar concept is the Panopticon and the theory that goes behind it. See also the Observer Effect study by Hawthorne (1950). https://iloveradfems.tumblr.com/post/175923807827/i-dont-know-how-to-escape-the-male-gaze-because
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Training Femininity – Classical, Operant, and Physical Conditioning
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When you don’t know that you don’t know – The Dunning Kruger Effect
Something to brighten, or darken your day.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Know Thyself? From Socrates to Freud.
A couple of minutes of interesting psychology/philosophy to start your day. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Are Things Creepy?
Ambiguity, the palette of our world, just isn’t the best for us.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Wanda Wyporska discusses why we can’t expect a group of cloistered elites to do anything to solve the changeable dimensions of inequality. – Jonathan Ford and Gill Plimmer write that the UK is beginning to learn its lesson about the dangers of privatizing
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Elizabeth Kolbert comments on the psychology of inequality, and particularly how the current trend in which a disproportionate share of gains goes to a small number of wealthy individuals produces no ultimate winners: As the relative-income model predicted, those who’d learned that they
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bloomberg View discusses how the U.S. is becoming a major tax haven. And the Economist reminds us of the role Canada’s pitiful corporate disclosure requirements play in facilitating offshore tax evasion. – Danny Vinik writes about the future of work – which includes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Does He Do That? – Lundy Bancroft – On Freud and Incest
Ever find a spot where you could pinpoint where something went wrong and broke-shit on such a massive scale that the damage is still being undone? See Freud on incest… “THERAPISTS AND EVALUATORS We need to take a large step back in time for a moment, to the early
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Want to Change Society – Learn About the Default Effect – Musa Al-Gharbi
Another hurdle for those who wish to change society. “Social scientists spend a lot of time and effort criticizing, deconstructing and otherwise problematizing various systems, institutions, ideologies and policies. However, it is much less common for researchers to develop alternative social arrangements that could be plausibly implemented in the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Martin Kenney comments on Canada’s continuing role in “snow washing” offshore tax evasion. The Conference Board of Canada examines the massive gap between what Canada should receive in public revenues, and what’s actually taken in to keep our society functioning. And Kamal
Continue readingScripturient: The meaning of dreams
Jack Kerouac woke up most mornings in the 1950s and scribbled into a bedside notebook what he could remember of his dreams. Characters from his novels interacted with fantasies and real life events. The result was eventually published in 1961 as his Book of Dreams; 184 pages of mostly spontaneous
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Goodbye, Politics, Re-Spun! Hello, WePivot.net!
“Politics, Re-Spun” is now WePivot.net! but why, you scream in horror! next month is the 14th anniversary of Politics, Re-Spun…it’s time for a reframing/rebranding/pivot to something more…betterer, or more bigly, if you will. 14 years ago, in the twisted Orwellian months after 9/11 where words did not mean what words
Continue readingScripturient: The bucket list, kicked
Nowadays the “bucket list” concept has become a wildly popular cultural meme, thanks to the movie of the same name. Subsequent marketing of the idea to millennials has proven a successful means to derive them of their income, with which they seem eager to part. I don’t like the concept.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!
I so hope you had a wonderful Indigenous Peoples’ Day yesterday! In “America” there is a movement to replace the systemically racist Columbus Day. It’s spreading briskly; soon it may reach the 100th Monkey and spread across Turtle Island. In Canada, we had Thanksgiving Day, for all the cornucopia reasons
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: East Vancouver Racism
Yesterday morning I took this picture of racist graffiti on a bus shelter ad on Kingsway at Kilarney. “No Muslims” scrawled with no irony when you read the actual ad. This is NOT my Canada, NOT my East Van! July 1, 2010 A Fine Collection of Canada Day Racism (1)
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