@j_bettany - 14 Apr 2021
After a year of lockdown, many of us are finding it hard to think clearly, or remember what happened when. Neuroscientists and behavioural experts explain why.
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@j_bettany - 23 May 2021
“…the people around you may not want you to be perfectly impartial when you think about them."
@j_bettany - 4 Jun 2021
There's a metaphor in here somewhere.
"Water molecules on cold surfaces require some additional heat before they can form ice"
@j_bettany - 14 Jul 2021
RT @keithfrankish: Panpsychism and the Depsychologization of Consciousness | Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume | Oxford Academic -…
@j_bettany - 2 Aug 2021
This seems unnecessarily harsh for sufferers. hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia – is apparently the fear of long words.
@j_bettany - 30 Aug 2021
In a new study, researchers show that if you want to build your cognitive resilience, surrounding yourself with people who pay attention to you when you tell stories or vent is an excellent strategy.
@j_bettany - 6 Sep 2021
@BBCr4today – I think that getting anti-vaxxers on is good because they need to be challenged but let her make so many dubious statements without follow up. Very frustrating! Not to say counterproductive.
@j_bettany - 9 Sep 2021
The psychological payoff of believing in conspiracy theories.
@j_bettany - 11 Sep 2021
Who doesn't think this will just drive up rental prices? Bad idea Keir.
@j_bettany - 5 Oct 2021
Metacognition: What Happens When Your Brain Looks at Itself? – Neuroscience News
@j_bettany - 23 Oct 2021
"A new longitudinal study provides evidence that belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories is prospectively associated with a variety of negative outcomes, including contracting the virus."
@j_bettany - 21 Nov 2021
"Even the stars think that I am superior: Personality, intelligence and belief in astrology"
@j_bettany - 1 Dec 2021
I found myself doing a search for Leonard Cohen's poem 'The road to Larissa' this morning and learned something new – somehow I'd never connected it to Plato in the Meno discussing the nature of knowledge.
@j_bettany - 9 Dec 2021
Is #depression Actually a Unique State of Consciousness?
@j_bettany - 16 Dec 2021
The Unexamined Life
@j_bettany - 23 Dec 2021
RT @j_bettany: In a new study, researchers show that if you want to build your cognitive resilience, surrounding yourself with people who p…
@j_bettany - 20 Jan 2022
Lifting restrictions is a Hail Mary from Boris. I don't think it's going to go very well.
@j_bettany - 3 Feb 2022
Favourite nautical metaphor?
We are like sailors who must build our boats on the open sea.
Bonus points if you know who came up with that one.
@j_bettany - 11 Feb 2022
“social mattering” or “cosmic mattering”
https://t.co/GCjO62rkQ7
@j_bettany - 12 Feb 2022
The problem of machine consciousness. Someone is claiming it's already here.
https://t.co/NsG3tdrtgt
@j_bettany - 25 Feb 2022
Curious psychology! "People who conceal information in their day-to-day lives are more willing to form online relationships" https://t.co/PF9G4ZFVYL
@j_bettany - 25 Feb 2022
Dad: I think it's worth paying attention to the cataclysmic events happening in the world!
Son: I just hope I outlive the warranty on this new graphics card.
@j_bettany - 10 Mar 2022
Modular cognition: How evolution ‘hacked’ its way to intelligence from the bottom up.
https://t.co/1RRSrSb1nl
@j_bettany - 2 Apr 2022
Agreeable people.
@j_bettany - 4 Apr 2022
@j_bettany - 7 Apr 2022
Overconfident defenders of the Dunning-Kruger effect
Overconfident defenders of the Dunning-Kruger effect | The Psychologist
@j_bettany - 8 Apr 2022
@FirstBSA would you mind confirming what's happening with the X6 / X7 Bus from Bristol to Clevedon. Is it true that there won't be any buses after 9pm?
@j_bettany - 17 Apr 2022
"…evidence that mindfulness can lead to undesirable outcomes by dampening feelings of guilt."
@j_bettany - 23 Apr 2022
He is pretty traumatised by the hallucinations I think… Maybe he's already in the hole?
@j_bettany - 23 Apr 2022
I think I need to forget about the hole.
@j_bettany - 24 Apr 2022
@Opticheart @pick_vic @SwipeWright I'm not religious but I teach my children not to blaspheme because I know people who are and who find it offensive. It's no skin off my nose to avoid offending people who have different beliefs. Respecting pronouns is just that.
@j_bettany - 26 Apr 2022
The hypothesis that religiosity and the endorsement of conspiracy theories share similar cognitive features.
@j_bettany - 6 May 2022
@j_bettany - 13 May 2022
This should probably get a bit more attention. https://t.co/zxrM2jpaKa
@j_bettany - 18 May 2022
@DrAaronB Would you mind linking to the source Aaron. It's bound to come up.
@j_bettany - 21 May 2022
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe…" https://t.co/aXZMUaoKSh
@j_bettany - 25 May 2022
Regret and the foregone alternatives.
@j_bettany - 4 Jun 2022
“Interventions targeting agreeableness may be an effective way to help reduce dark traits in a way that people may be likely to cooperate with.”
@j_bettany - 16 Jun 2022
"Primal World Beliefs"
@j_bettany - 16 Jun 2022
"Kurt Gödel revolutionized the study of mathematics with his famous incompleteness theorem, but the most compelling implications of his hypothesis might be in what it means for the study of the mind and consciousness."
@j_bettany - 21 Jun 2022
"a more complex role for oxytocin"
@j_bettany - 23 Jun 2022
This is an interesting question because what does it mean to be good at talking about being sentient? Do you have to be sentient to be good at talking about it? Could a machine get so good at talking about sentience that we could learn from it?
@j_bettany - 28 Jun 2022
"… two studies support an association between conspiracy mentality and a general mistrust of others, rather than a higher sensitivity to untrustworthiness cues or a lower sensitivity to trustworthiness cues."
@j_bettany - 29 Jun 2022
When it comes to moral choices both anxious and avoidant attachment styles are associated with reduced deontological AND utilitarian decision-making.
@j_bettany - 2 Jul 2022
Multi-generational estrangement
@j_bettany - 3 Jul 2022
"…a causal link between intellectual humility and the desire to investigate political misinformation…"
@j_bettany - 6 Jul 2022
I knew there was a US army unit stationed in #Clevedon before D-day but just discovered it was called The Publicity and Psychological Warfare Battalion.
@j_bettany - 26 Jul 2022
A recent experiment from the philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel, Anna Strasser, and Matthew Crosby quizzed people on whether they could tell which answers to deep philosophical questions came from Daniel Dennett and which from #GPT3
@j_bettany - 28 Jul 2022
How much should we talk in conversations?
@j_bettany - 12 Aug 2022
A new theory in the journal Frontiers in Psychology claims to solve the hard problem of consciousness in a purely physical way.
@j_bettany - 17 Aug 2022
Mandelbrot’s Fractional Dimensions –
“In the mind’s eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.”
@j_bettany - 18 Aug 2022
How Autistic People Experience Sensory Processing Issues
@j_bettany - 22 Aug 2022
Cognitive Fatigue (and how to survive it)
@j_bettany - 25 Aug 2022
Interesting.
"Reading fiction early in life is associated with a more complex worldview"
#reading #fiction #psychology @DrAaronB
@j_bettany - 2 Sep 2022
"… the subversive potential of friendship"
@j_bettany - 5 Oct 2022
“What is completely new about this theory is that it suggests we don’t perceive the world, make decisions, or perform actions directly. Instead, we do all these things unconsciously and then-about half a second later-consciously remember doing them.”
@j_bettany - 7 Nov 2022
"Happiness, when we achieve it, is essentially a byproduct"
@j_bettany - 24 Nov 2022
Just for reference. Avanti is 70% owned by First Group which in turn is owned by Schroders (18%), Threadneedle (15%), Aberforth Partners (9%) and BlackRock institutional trust (6%). (June '22)
@j_bettany - 4 May 2023
“Philosophy in the Open” is a new video archive of Mid-to-Late 20th Century British Philosophers.
@OpenUniversity.
#Philosophy #philosopher #video #archive https://t.co/5F9UuYwuTs
@j_bettany - 15 May 2023
Friendships and rivalries in the golden age of Oxford #philosophy
@j_bettany - 25 Aug 2023
More than 20 theories of consciousness are still taken seriously.
@j_bettany - 29 Aug 2023
Major candidate theories in #consciousness.
@j_bettany - 20 Sep 2023
RT @SteveStuWill: Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil…
@j_bettany - 31 Oct 2023
Moral hazard makes a comeback in banking.
@j_bettany - 23 Nov 2023
RT @TheFractalist: “Each person’s life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everythi…
@j_bettany - 12 Dec 2023
Yikes
"As the sophistication of these organoid systems increases, it is critical for the community to examine the myriad of neuroethical issues that surround biocomputing systems incorporating human neural tissue."
@j_bettany - 16 May 2024
RT @nick_oldridge: I couldn’t quite belief this when I read it. Our water industry has effectively stolen from all of us, with full permiss…
@j_bettany - 18 Sep 2024
RT @DrAaronB: There’s an epidemic. It’s psychological, not biological, but it spreads like a virus. It appeals to what is most base within…
@j_bettany - 2 Nov 2024
What do you think will happen, Dan? @danriversitv https://t.co/vV5ptThWWG