Psychology
How To Read Someone’s Emotions With 90% Accuracy
April 1, 2018
How neuroscientists are learning to predict emotions with increasing accuracy. Brain scans can read human emotions with 90% accuracy, a new study finds. Researchers have been able to predict the intensity of negative emotions to evocative images. They found that negative emotions have a ‘neural signature’ which a computer could learn.
April 1, 2018
How neuroscientists are learning to predict emotions with increasing accuracy. Brain scans can read human emotions with 90% accuracy, a new study finds. Researchers have been able to predict the intensity of negative emotions to evocative images. They found that negative emotions have a ‘neural signature’ which a computer could learn.
Traditional Mediation Tools Explained by Neuroscience
March 13, 2018
Mediators have many tools for facilitating an effective mediation. Neuroscience shows how our actions are influenced by stress hormones released when we perceive threats. Understanding the physiological stress response and its triggers helps us see why these traditional tools are effective. 1. Building Trust and Rapport: The stress response is triggered when threats outweigh resources for handling the threats. Building trust and rapport between mediator and party helps reduce stress in two ways....
March 13, 2018
Mediators have many tools for facilitating an effective mediation. Neuroscience shows how our actions are influenced by stress hormones released when we perceive threats. Understanding the physiological stress response and its triggers helps us see why these traditional tools are effective. 1. Building Trust and Rapport: The stress response is triggered when threats outweigh resources for handling the threats. Building trust and rapport between mediator and party helps reduce stress in two ways....
Empathy
March 12, 2018
Conflict is stressful and triggers negative emotions. Mediation can add another layer of anxiety. Clients are usually fearful about confronting each other – afraid of the other’s anger and of humiliation, and worried whether they will be able to control their own emotions. An empathic mediator may in effect function as an attachment figure, a ‘secure base’ enabling parties to both enter and remain in the room. The mediator’s empathy helps clients reduce their level of emotional arousal....
March 12, 2018
Conflict is stressful and triggers negative emotions. Mediation can add another layer of anxiety. Clients are usually fearful about confronting each other – afraid of the other’s anger and of humiliation, and worried whether they will be able to control their own emotions. An empathic mediator may in effect function as an attachment figure, a ‘secure base’ enabling parties to both enter and remain in the room. The mediator’s empathy helps clients reduce their level of emotional arousal....
“Critical Thinking” by Tversky & Liberman
March 8, 2018
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Critical Thinking: Statistical Reasoning and Intuitive Judgment by Amos Tversky & Varda Liberman on SSRN. Here is a description: Life is fundamentally uncertain. We do not know whether it will rain, whether the market will go up or down, whether our unhealthy eating choices will have serious consequences, or whether terrorists will strike our city. To make matters worse, we also lack a tried and true procedure for evaluating the likelihood of such...
March 8, 2018
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Critical Thinking: Statistical Reasoning and Intuitive Judgment by Amos Tversky & Varda Liberman on SSRN. Here is a description: Life is fundamentally uncertain. We do not know whether it will rain, whether the market will go up or down, whether our unhealthy eating choices will have serious consequences, or whether terrorists will strike our city. To make matters worse, we also lack a tried and true procedure for evaluating the likelihood of such...
How Your Smartphone Camera Is Affecting Your Life
March 4, 2018
Because people take a lot of pictures. According to the Times, roughly 1.3 trillion photos were taken in 2017, the vast majority of them with our smartphones. 350 million of these pictures are uploaded to Facebook every day. Since Instagram launched in 2010, over 40 billion photos have been shared on the site. A recent paper in JPSP by the psychologists Kristin Diehl, Gal Zuberman and Alixandra Barasch provides some useful answers. The scientists began by taking over...
March 4, 2018
Because people take a lot of pictures. According to the Times, roughly 1.3 trillion photos were taken in 2017, the vast majority of them with our smartphones. 350 million of these pictures are uploaded to Facebook every day. Since Instagram launched in 2010, over 40 billion photos have been shared on the site. A recent paper in JPSP by the psychologists Kristin Diehl, Gal Zuberman and Alixandra Barasch provides some useful answers. The scientists began by taking over...
Richard Thaler and the Rise of Behavioral Economics
March 2, 2018
The emergence of behavioral economics is one of the most significant conceptual developments in the social sciences in the past 40 years. The central figure in the field in its early years was Richard Thaler. In this article, I review and discuss his scientific contributions.
March 2, 2018
The emergence of behavioral economics is one of the most significant conceptual developments in the social sciences in the past 40 years. The central figure in the field in its early years was Richard Thaler. In this article, I review and discuss his scientific contributions.
Empirical Study Reveals 14 Key Components of Creativity
February 26, 2018
In a world where robots seem to be taking over the world, the hottest buzzword amongst recruiters is “creative.” In every field, employers are desperately searching for “highly creative” human candidates. But ask recruiters and employers what constitutes creativity—and how they will recognize a creative person—and they are flummoxed. The 14 key components of creativity were identified as: Active Involvement and Persistence: Comfort with Uncertainty: Domain Competence: ...
February 26, 2018
In a world where robots seem to be taking over the world, the hottest buzzword amongst recruiters is “creative.” In every field, employers are desperately searching for “highly creative” human candidates. But ask recruiters and employers what constitutes creativity—and how they will recognize a creative person—and they are flummoxed. The 14 key components of creativity were identified as: Active Involvement and Persistence: Comfort with Uncertainty: Domain Competence: ...
Behavioral Law & Economics
February 19, 2018
Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) has posted The Proper Scope of Behavioral Law and Economics on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Behavioral law and economics applies the conceptual tools of behavioral economics to the analysis of legal problems and legal intervention. These models, and the experiments to test them, assume an institution free state of nature. In modern societies, the law’s subjects never see this state of nature. However, a rich arrangement...
February 19, 2018
Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) has posted The Proper Scope of Behavioral Law and Economics on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Behavioral law and economics applies the conceptual tools of behavioral economics to the analysis of legal problems and legal intervention. These models, and the experiments to test them, assume an institution free state of nature. In modern societies, the law’s subjects never see this state of nature. However, a rich arrangement...
The Mistakes You Make in a Meeting’s First Milliseconds
February 16, 2018
A growing body of research shows the snap judgments people make about others’ trustworthiness are wrong more often than most people think. These first impressions are formed in milliseconds, based on instinctive responses in the brain’s emotion-processing center, the amygdala. Some people conclude a stranger is reliable because he or she looks like someone trustworthy the person already knows, says Alexander Todorov, a leading researcher and author of a 2017 book on the topic, “Face Value:...
February 16, 2018
A growing body of research shows the snap judgments people make about others’ trustworthiness are wrong more often than most people think. These first impressions are formed in milliseconds, based on instinctive responses in the brain’s emotion-processing center, the amygdala. Some people conclude a stranger is reliable because he or she looks like someone trustworthy the person already knows, says Alexander Todorov, a leading researcher and author of a 2017 book on the topic, “Face Value:...
5-Minute Technique to Fall Asleep More Quickly
February 11, 2018
You’ve had all day to worry, but your brain decides that the moment you rest your weary head upon your pillow is the precise instant it wants to start fretting. The result of course is that you feel wide awake and cannot sleep. Two possible solutions: (1) spend five minutes before lights out writing about everything you have done. This might give you a soothing sense of achievement. Or (2) spend five minutes writing a comprehensive to-do list. This could serve to off-load your worries, or perhaps...
February 11, 2018
You’ve had all day to worry, but your brain decides that the moment you rest your weary head upon your pillow is the precise instant it wants to start fretting. The result of course is that you feel wide awake and cannot sleep. Two possible solutions: (1) spend five minutes before lights out writing about everything you have done. This might give you a soothing sense of achievement. Or (2) spend five minutes writing a comprehensive to-do list. This could serve to off-load your worries, or perhaps...
