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Paradox of tolerance
psychology
diversity
paradoxes
karl-popper
tolerance
intolerance
racism
june 2018 by jm
The paradox of tolerance was described by Karl Popper in 1945. The paradox states that if a society is tolerant without limit, their ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Popper came to the seemingly paradoxical conclusion that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.
june 2018 by jm
What To Do When Your Daughter Is the Mean Girl | Psychology Today
october 2017 by jm
Bookmarking -- just in case. hopefully it won't be necessary... good site for parenting advice along these lines.
psychology
kids
parenting
bullies
children
girls
I knew this day would come. I was, of course, hoping it never would-hoping that my daughter would never be mean to someone else's daughter-but as they say, I wrote the book on girl bullying in elementary school, so I knew that there was a pretty good chance that despite all of my best efforts, one of these days, my girl was gonna act like the mean one. This morning, she told me about it.
october 2017 by jm
What Parents Can Do When Bullying is Downplayed at School | Psychology Today
Good advice for this nasty situation -- I'm thankfully not facing it myself, but bookmarking just in case...
bullying
kids
school
education
psychology
children
parenting
october 2017 by jm
Despite the "Bully-Free Zone" posters that line the school cafeteria walls and the Zero-Tolerance policy that was boasted about during last September's Back-to-School night, your experience is that the school would rather not address the problem at all. The responses you get from your child's teacher include bland lip service [...]
Good advice for this nasty situation -- I'm thankfully not facing it myself, but bookmarking just in case...
october 2017 by jm
Screen time guidelines need to be built on evidence, not hype | Science | The Guardian
june 2017 by jm
An open letter signed by about 100 scientists 'from different countries and academic fields with research expertise and experience in screen time, child development and evidence-based policy.'
(via Damien Mulley)
via:damienmulley
science
children
psychology
screens
screen-time
childhood
development
evidence
policy
health
open-letters
If the government were to implement guidelines on screen-based technology at this point, as the authors of the letter suggest, this would be on the basis of little to no evidence. This risks the implementation of unnecessary, ineffective or even potentially harmful policies. For guidelines to have a meaningful impact, they need to be grounded in robust research evidence and acknowledge that children’s health and wellbeing is a complex issue affected by many other factors, such as socioeconomic status, relational poverty, and family environment – all of which are likely to be more relevant for children’s health and well-being than screens. For example, there is no consistent evidence that more screen time leads to less outdoor play; if anything the evidence indicates that screen time and physical outdoor activity are unrelated, and reductions in average time spent in outdoor play over time seem to be driven by other factors. Policy efforts to increase outdoor play that focus on screen time are therefore likely to be ineffective.
(via Damien Mulley)
june 2017 by jm
Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake News
may 2017 by jm
In other words, repeated exposure to fake news renders it believable. Pennycook, Gordon and Cannon, Tyrone D and Rand, David G., _Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake News_ (April 30, 2017):
(via Zeynep Tufekci)
See also: http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE100/PE198/RAND_PE198.pdf , _The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model_, from RAND.
propaganda
psychology
fake-news
belief
facebook
echo-chambers
lies
truth
media
Collectively, our results indicate familiarity is used heuristically to infer accuracy. Thus, the spread of fake news is supported by persistent low-level cognitive processes that make even highly implausible and partisan claims more believable with repetition. Our results suggest that political echo chambers not only isolate one from opposing views, but also help to create incubation chambers for blatantly false (but highly salient and politicized) fake news stories.
(via Zeynep Tufekci)
See also: http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE100/PE198/RAND_PE198.pdf , _The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model_, from RAND.
may 2017 by jm
Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study - The Washington Post
march 2016 by jm
This is excellent research, spot on.
culture
privacy
psychology
surveillance
mass-surveillance
via:snowden
nothing-to-hide
spiral-of-silence
fear
Elizabeth Stoycheff, lead researcher of the study and assistant professor at Wayne State University, is disturbed by her findings. “So many people I've talked with say they don't care about online surveillance because they don't break any laws and don't have anything to hide. And I find these rationales deeply troubling,” she said.
She said that participants who shared the “nothing to hide” belief, those who tended to support mass surveillance as necessary for national security, were the most likely to silence their minority opinions.
“The fact that the 'nothing to hide' individuals experience a significant chilling effect speaks to how online privacy is much bigger than the mere lawfulness of one's actions. It's about a fundamental human right to have control over one's self-presentation and image, in private, and now, in search histories and metadata,” she said.
march 2016 by jm
Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists | Psychology Today
Bloody hell.
trolls
sadism
narcissism
psychopaths
online
trolling
psychology
papers
september 2014 by jm
The relationship between this Dark Tetrad [of narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism] and trolling is so significant, that the authors write the following in their paper:
"... the associations between sadism and GAIT (Global Assessment of Internet Trolling) scores were so strong that it might be said that online trolls are prototypical everyday sadists." [emphasis added]
Trolls truly enjoy making you feel bad. To quote the authors once more (because this is a truly quotable article):
"Both trolls and sadists feel sadistic glee at the distress of others. Sadists just want to have fun ... and the Internet is their playground!"
Bloody hell.
september 2014 by jm
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