Tag: psychology
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The remembering self and the experiencing self
How might significant aspects of health professions education change, if we discover that patients’ memories of their pain can’t be trusted?
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Weekly digest 35
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Weekly digest 32
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Link: Remarkable rise of AI wellbeing bots
http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2024/02/remarkable-rise-of-ai-wellbeing-bots.html Interesting summary of a series of interactions with Woebot, a wellbeing chatbot.
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Podcast: Creating emotionally intelligent AI
https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/hume-ceo-alan-cowen-on-creating-emotionally-aware-ai-1/ “In this episode, Nathan sits down with Alan Cowen, CEO and Chief Scientist at Hume AI, an emotional intelligence startup working on creating emotionally aware AI.” This is a deep, insightful conversation about emotion, psychology, cognitive psychology, and generative AI. I was struck by how much our understanding of emotional context is, in some…
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Link: How AI Will Rewire Us
Radical innovations have previously transformed the way humans live together. The advent of cities…meant a less nomadic existence and a higher population density. More recently, the invention of technologies including the printing press, the telephone, and the internet revolutionized how we store and communicate information. As consequential as these innovations were, however, they did not…
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Psychology’s top 20 principles for enhancing teaching and learning
Every once in a while an article is published that you know is Important and that you should take Note of, and in this post I’m going to summarise a paper that I think fits into that category. It’s a recent publication in Mind, Brain and Education that attempts to summarise and explain the Top 20 principles of…
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Is violence in society decreasing over time?
This weekend I came across an interesting TED talk by Steven Pinker, where he identifies a decreasing trend in violence, which is somewhat surprising when you think about how violent the world is. He supports the idea with some examples which seem reasonable, although some of the comments highlight that the evidence seems to have…