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Coert Visser
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2018-01-06 17:24
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dementia
2018-01-31 07:36
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Communicating effectively with people with dementia
Last week, a participant in one of our courses brought in a case for intervision. His case was that he had recently found out that his mother, who lived quite far away from him, had dementia. He wanted
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steven
2018-01-30 17:43
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Enlightenment now
I think Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of our Nature was a fantastic book and I am very curious about his new book Enlightenment now. The book argues that, while many people are pessimistic, the
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social
2018-01-30 16:10
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Social Progress in 2017
The Social Progress Index captures social progress in countries on multiple dimensions. Here is an overview of the results of 2017
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echo
2018-01-28 13:05
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Four principles for having civil and productive conversations with people we strongly disagree with
Nowadays, there is lots of talk about a growing polarization in our societies. It is said that groups oppose each other ever more more hatefully and aggressively. It also appears that we are less and less
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religion
2018-01-21 12:38
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The role of religon in American regress
Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland, how America went Haywire, discusses how, in the last 30 years, religion has radicalized American politics and seriously harmed the perception of science. People often
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peace
2018-01-18 09:16
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Groups can change and improve
Teaching people that groups can change and improve may be a powerful tool to promote peace. Below, two studies are mentioned, one from 2011 and one from 2018. Halperin et al. (2011) A study by Halperin
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declinism
2018-01-16 12:11
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Will the future be better?
would your answer be to the question: will the future be better? The answer to this question turns out to depend on whom you ask and on what it is specifically focused on. Mohammed Nagdy and Max Roser
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dtube
2018-01-15 14:35
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Exchange is the root of virtue and prosperity
Inspired by The rational optimist- Matt Ridley, 2010 ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS
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dtube
2018-01-15 14:30
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Mindset in 2 minutes
Can we develop our abilities or are they largely fixed? What is a fixed mindset? What is a growth mindset? What are the consequences and causes of these two mindsets? Why is that relevant? What this 2
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dtube
2018-01-15 14:23
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Autonomy support in 2 minutes
Motivation is energy for action. More important than how much motivation you have for something is what the quality of your motivation is. Two sorts of motivation are autonomous motivation and controlled
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dtube
2018-01-15 12:56
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Creating progress spirals
How mindset, motivation, deliberate practice and the progress principle are connected. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS
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satoshi
2018-01-14 19:17
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Why I think the blockchain will bring progress
Recently, I have become interested in a new technology which is gaining popularity and which will probably have a great impact on our society: the blockchain. Put simply, blockchain technology is a
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dtube
2018-01-10 16:18
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How can we protect ourselves against dangerous belief systems?
Contaminated mindware, a term by prof. David Perkins, is a concept to describe beliefs, rules, strategies, etc., that are not grounded in evidence and that are not good for the one who holds them (the
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personality
2018-01-10 09:56
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Carol Dweck's new theory on the foundations of personality
Carol Dweck, founder of mindset theory, has written an ambitious new paper in Psychological Review. In this paper, she presents a new theory about how personality is formed and how both nature and nurture
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dtube
2018-01-08 14:47
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When should you believe something and when not?
Here is a flow chart to help you determine whether or not to believe truth claims. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS
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psychology
2018-01-08 09:27
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The motivation continuum: self-determination theory in one picture
Elements from self-determination theory are somewhat known to many people. Particularly, the terms intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation are familiar to many people. Also reasonably well-known
