I’m in complete agreement with this animated short. I can see from my own personal experiences the vastly different feelings I get between someone sympathizing with me versus someone who empathizes with me. I can see why empathy is less common – it is waaaaaay harder to achieve because
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Dead Wild Roses: Winning on Golden Balls – Is it Game Theory or just How much of an As*hole are you?)
This is what happens when you combine game theory, psychology and sociology on a gameshow you get the phenomena called Golden Balls. I have not watched an entire episode, but merely some outcomes of the final decision in which two people are given three possible outcomes for splitting, usually, a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Our Families, Technology and Having the ‘Right’ Experience
We can lump this video in with the others that attempt to shed light on issues in society that matter while discreetly hawking their wares in the background. The best form of advertising? I’m not sure, but the commercial makes space for some thinking about how generational experiences are becoming
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Opposite of Addiction is Connection
Recently I posted a quote from John Hari on addiction. See it here. I’ve also updated the post to include the video below as well. What is detailed in this TED talk is idea that we should punish and isolate addicts from society. This idea, according to Hari is about
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: John Hari on Addiction – Isolating Addicts is not the Answer
This is taken from the interview titled: Does Capitalism Cause Drug Addiction? The piece that I am going to excerpt is about how we view addiction in society. If we are to believe Hari, it isn’t about a failure in moral rectitude or falling into a drug laden trap of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: War On Drugs Still a Losing Battle
Why are drugs still illegal? I wrote a while ago about the success of Portugal, where all drugs were legalized, and the money previously used to enforce drug laws were instead used to fund social programs to help those with drug problems. Not only was Portugal’s drug abuse problem significantly reduced,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: All About Love: bell hooks.
Just started reading Hooks’ treatise on Love. Only twenty two pages but already word-gold is present: One of the most important social myths we must debunk if we are to become a more loving culture is the one that teaches parents that abuse and neglect can coexist with love.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trauma, Stress, Addiction – Gabor Maté
Reading Mate’s book called In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. I’ve been unable to put this book down as his research and insight into addictions and associated behaviours dovetails snugly with the clientele I work with most days. Here is a brief excerpt from the chapter titled Trauma, Stress and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Michael Kimmel – On Gender and Privilege
I’m reading Kimmel’s book GuyLand and I shudder to think of what I would be if I had engaged in the sort of crap that constitutes the typical male maturation process. Filed under: Social Science Tagged: Gender, Privilege, Sociology
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Blame – A Barrier to Accountability
Let’s just add this to the list of things to be mindful of when dealing with the important and not so important people in our lives. How often does it happen to you? Does it happen to you? In hindsight, I can see that sometimes I do this and really,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: RSA Animate – The ABC’s of Persuasion
We have not featured an RSA animate here at DWR like forever, so here we go a quick hit in the qualities of persuasion you should have. Filed under: Social Science Tagged: ABC’s of Persuasion, RSA Animate, Sociology
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Logic: How to PWN an argument, without getting the RPOJ
If you want to take down somebody else’s argument, a certain familiarity with the nature of intellectual or philosophical (as opposed to playground) argument is required, so that you can construct your own counter-argument. In an intellectual argument, the person putting forth an argument sets out a number of premises
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Social Maps of Cities – David Troy
Interesting vid from TED about the social composition of cities. I would have liked David to get into a little more detail about the methodology used to create his pretty maps. Filed under: Social Science Tagged: Maps, Sociology
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Capitalism – “Breaking” Cultural Norms (Ochobo) by Reinforcing Them.
From Sociological Images Micheal Lozano – […] Japanese fast-food has found a way to bypass the cultural stigmas that impede their profits. One food chain noticed many women would not buy their biggest-sized burgers. The culprit was ochobo, a Japanese custom that prevents women from opening their mouth widely
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How to Influence Teenagers and other People too.
Working in behavioural education means that much of this stuff is old hat for me, but sometimes isn’t as common knowledge as I think it is for others, so lets review some the tricksy-hobbit ways P-sychologists work their magic. We’ll pick up midway though the article: I asked Dahl what
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What if the Centre of the World Changed?
Interesting thought. Discuss. 🙂 Filed under: Social Science Tagged: Norms, Society, Sociolgy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Building Trust – Sliding Door Moments
Building a good relationship doesn’t happen in an instant. The good relationship requires a stream of small, often seemingly inconsequential, choices that build attunement empathy and sensitivity to your partner’s (and yours) need. John Gottman describes the process and also touches on the idea the CL-Alt which can start a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – Marriage Behaviours that Destroy Marriages.
I thought I’d share some useful advice about relationships and marriage. It will be familiar reading to those who have taken sociology of the family. Enjoy. “John Gottman’s FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE John Gottman, Ph.D., is a well respected psychologist and marriage researcher who reports that an unhappy marriage
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Innovation of Loneliness – Film Short.
I’m not much for the social media, to be honest I prefer to be alone because the rest of you are so darn noisy. 🙂 Filed under: Social Science Tagged: Loneliness, Technology
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Sexy Lie – Caroline Heldman
A fantastic video on identifying and stopping the objectification of women. Filed under: Education, Feminism, Social Science Tagged: Feminism, Objectification, The Next Generation, The Sexy Lie, Women
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