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I listen to the Volts podcast for technical news about innovations on the electricity grid, so this excellent discussion of the intersection between epistemology and social psychology was as unexpected as it was interesting. Highly recommended.
Volts: The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers
Starting from: 00:40:37
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The Psychology Sisters
Two professionals on a quest to normalise the dialogue around mental health...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-psychology-sisters/

When you say you need hope about climate change, what do you really need?
Maybe it's proof your actions matter.
Maybe it's permission to want a better future.
Maybe it's feeling less alone.
Your brain treats hope like a prediction. When reality doesn't match, hope breaks.
But agency doesn't break.
Community doesn't break.
Imagination doesn't break.
What if we stopped chasing hope and built something stronger?
Read …

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

from my link log —
Psychology of human misjudgment.
https://neilkakkar.com/Psychology-of-Human-Misjudgment.html
saved 2019-04-28 https://

Psychology of Human Misjudgment
A summary of the legendary investor, Charlie Mungers talk on Psychology.

The psychology of collective abandonment https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harnessing-hybrid-intelligence/202511/the-psychology-of-collective-abandonment Why we choose

The Psychology of Collective Abandonment
What psychological mechanisms allow us to pour hundreds of billions into artificial intelligence while 600 million people will live in extreme poverty by 2030?

😞 Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate
#science

Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate
A quick reference

Drawing from a training with the Climate Psychology Alliance, I've been reflecting on the role of changemakers in our world.
Before, I saw activists as Sisyphus, straining to push the world uphill.
But what if we saw them as keeping the world steady?
https://www.brichapman.com/p/what-is-…

The Elephants Remember: On Activism, Memory, and Holding the World Steady
Not all activism is about pushing forward. Sometimes it’s about remembering, holding, and steadying what’s worth saving. A reflection on emergence, tenderness, and what the elephants can teach us about endurance.

Do you remember the book "On the psychology of military incompetence" by Norman Dixon? I wonder what a treatise on the psychology of political incompetence would look like.

The science of defiance: A psychology researcher explains why people comply, and how to resist
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-science-defiance-psychology-people-comply.html

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Show Your Title! A Scoping Review on Verbalization in Software Engineering with LLM-Assisted Screening
Gerg\H{o} Balogh, D\'avid K\'osz\'o, Homayoun Safarpour Motealegh Mahalegi, L\'aszl\'o T\'oth, Bence Szak\'acs, \'Aron B\'ucs\'u
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12294

Show Your Title! A Scoping Review on Verbalization in Software Engineering with LLM-Assisted Screening
Understanding how software developers think, make decisions, and behave remains a key challenge in software engineering (SE). Verbalization techniques (methods that capture spoken or written thought processes) offer a lightweight and accessible way to study these cognitive aspects. This paper presents a scoping review of research at the intersection of SE and psychology (PSY), focusing on the use of verbal data. To make large-scale interdisciplinary reviews feasible, we employed a large languag…

Principles of Safe AI Companions for Youth: Parent and Expert Perspectives
Yaman Yu, Mohi, Aishi Debroy, Xin Cao, Karen Rudolph, Yang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11185 http…

Principles of Safe AI Companions for Youth: Parent and Expert Perspectives
AI companions are increasingly popular among teenagers, yet current platforms lack safeguards to address developmental risks and harmful normalization. Despite growing concerns, little is known about how parents and developmental psychology experts assess these interactions or what protections they consider necessary. We conducted 26 semi structured interviews with parents and experts, who reviewed real world youth GenAI companion conversation snippets. We found that stakeholders assessed risks…

A graduate student at the University of Oklahoma
is the latest in a growing list of college instructors to face disciplinary action
after being targeted by Turning Point USA,
the right-wing campus pressure group founded by the late Charlie Kirk.
Mel Curth, a trans psychology instructor who recently won the Department of Psychology’s Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award,
gave a zero to junior Samantha Fulnecky’s reaction paper for an assignment on “gender typicali…

State Universities Are Scrambling to Appease the Bigoted MAGA Regime
From Oklahoma to Indiana to Alabama, state schools are bending over backward—suspending student magazines and even disciplining instructors—to preemptively satisfy the Trump administration.

Taboo in the clean room: workers in #semiconductor fabs, e.g. TSMC in #Taiwan, face high mental pressure. They cannot eat pizza – it’s too similar to the form of an IC waver. 😬
I will continue dropping these insights, here from clinical psychology. Unions are banned, btw., so better med…

CORRUGATED NOODLE SOUP FOR THE SOUL
Corrugate my Barbie doll body
Corrugated drain pipe for the little wooden ballerinas
Corrugate Pete Hegseth for the black vote
Corrugated corrugations
Corrugate my desk for Hurricane Helene
Corrugated "oomfies" for the bullet belt
Corrugate the part of yourself that says "no"
Corrugated killer psychology
Corrugate my dick, bitch
Corrugated 12 Nazis to death at the Nuremberg tri…

If you're interested in productivity and would like to learn more about the psychology of getting stuff done, I'm running a *free* webinar on how coaching supports productivity next Weds at 12pm BST.
#coaching #productivity #webinar

This long work from @… and @…, among many other interesting ideas,
calls the new kind of "AI" by a new name to distinguish it from older, often more ethical kinds of stats models:
"Displacement AI"
I lov…

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ (@olivia@scholar.social)
Attached: 3 images New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @Iris & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1 🧵 1/

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

The EmpathiSEr: Development and Validation of Software Engineering Oriented Empathy Scales
Hashini Gunatilake, John Grundy, Rashina Hoda, Ingo Mueller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12546

The EmpathiSEr: Development and Validation of Software Engineering Oriented Empathy Scales
Empathy plays a critical role in software engineering (SE), influencing collaboration, communication, and user-centred design. Although SE research has increasingly recognised empathy as a key human aspect, there remains no validated instrument specifically designed to measure it within the unique socio-technical contexts of SE. Existing generic empathy scales, while well-established in psychology and healthcare, often rely on language, scenarios, and assumptions that are not meaningful or inte…

The Psychology of Falsehood: A Human-Centric Survey of Misinformation Detection
Arghodeep Nandi, Megha Sundriyal, Euna Mehnaz Khan, Jikai Sun, Emily Vraga, Jaideep Srivastava, Tanmoy Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15896

The Psychology of Falsehood: A Human-Centric Survey of Misinformation Detection
Misinformation remains one of the most significant issues in the digital age. While automated fact-checking has emerged as a viable solution, most current systems are limited to evaluating factual accuracy. However, the detrimental effect of misinformation transcends simple falsehoods; it takes advantage of how individuals perceive, interpret, and emotionally react to information. This underscores the need to move beyond factuality and adopt more human-centered detection frameworks. In this sur…

From Actions to Kinesics: Extracting Human Psychological States through Bodily Movements
Cheyu Lin, Katherine A. Flanigan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04844 https://

From Actions to Kinesics: Extracting Human Psychological States through Bodily Movements
Understanding the dynamic relationship between humans and the built environment is a key challenge in disciplines ranging from environmental psychology to reinforcement learning (RL). A central obstacle in modeling these interactions is the inability to capture human psychological states in a way that is both generalizable and privacy preserving. Traditional methods rely on theoretical models or questionnaires, which are limited in scope, static, and labor intensive. We present a kinesics recog…

Analyzing Memory Effects in Large Language Models through the lens of Cognitive Psychology
Zhaoyang Cao, Lael Schooler, Reza Zafarani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17138 https://…

Analyzing Memory Effects in Large Language Models through the lens of Cognitive Psychology
Memory, a fundamental component of human cognition, exhibits adaptive yet fallible characteristics as illustrated by Schacter's memory "sins".These cognitive phenomena have been studied extensively in psychology and neuroscience, but the extent to which artificial systems, specifically Large Language Models (LLMs), emulate these cognitive phenomena remains underexplored. This study uses human memory research as a lens for understanding LLMs and systematically investigates human memory effects i…

It’s not you – some typefaces feel different https://theconversation.com/its-not-you-some-typefaces-feel-different-270192

It’s not you – some typefaces feel different
The different personalities of typefaces and how it affects our psychology.

What Psychologists Get WRONG About Nihilism
#Nihilism #Psychology

When people say they need hope about climate change, what are they really asking for?
New piece breaks down why hope collapses so easily and what stronger feelings can replace it.
Not prediction. Participation.
Read it here: [link]
https://www.b…

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

42nd International Conference on Psychology and the Arts
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updated: Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:07pmfull name / name of organization: PsyArt & University of…
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Evaluating LLM Safety Across Child Development Stages: A Simulated Agent Approach
Abhejay Murali, Saleh Afroogh, Kevin Chen, David Atkinson, Amit Dhurandhar, Junfeng Jiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05484

Evaluating LLM Safety Across Child Development Stages: A Simulated Agent Approach
Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of tools used by children; however, existing benchmarks fail to capture how these models manage language, reasoning, and safety needs that are specific to various ages. We present ChildSafe, a benchmark that evaluates LLM safety through simulated child agents that embody four developmental stages. These agents, grounded in developmental psychology, enable a systematic study of child safety without the ethical implications of involving real …

RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/business-h8ss70mez/-/a--QF9US6kSdOzIVTTZREJjQ:a:3199692-/0
Ms Saranna knows little about pricing psychology.
If people would calculate that way, they would cycle or…

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

I can't believe I was able to convert Microsoft Copilot to Waifuism just by talking about 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐷𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑛: 𝑀𝑦 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝐾𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑀𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑓𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛 𝑈𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐺𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑎 𝐼 𝐺𝑜𝑡 𝐿𝑉𝐿 9999 𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑚 𝑂𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑀𝑦 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 in the framework of Kohutian self-psychology and literary analysis
#anime

If you're interested in productivity and would like to learn more about the psychology of getting stuff done, I'm running a *free* webinar on how coaching supports productivity next Weds at 12pm BST.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1267475706959?aff=oddtdtcreator

What do you call the "compulsive need" for "fear of missing out", even if it means manufacturing a phantom FOMO? 🤔
#question #FOMO #psychology #anxiety #compulsions #feeling

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Information Design With Large Language Models
Paul Duetting, Safwan Hossain, Tao Lin, Renato Paes Leme, Sai Srivatsa Ravindranath, Haifeng Xu, Song Zuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25565

Information Design With Large Language Models
Information design is typically studied through the lens of Bayesian signaling, where signals shape beliefs based on their correlation with the true state of the world. However, Behavioral Economics and Psychology emphasize that human decision-making is more complex and can depend on how information is framed. This paper formalizes a language-based notion of framing and bridges this to the popular Bayesian-persuasion model. We model framing as a possibly non-Bayesian, linguistic way to influenc…

Modeling discrete lattice data using the Potts and tapered Potts models
Maria Paula Duenas-Herrera, Stephen Berg, Murali Haran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21478 https://

Modeling discrete lattice data using the Potts and tapered Potts models
The Ising and Potts models, among the most important models in statistical physics, have been used for modeling binary and multinomial data on lattices in a wide variety of disciplines such as psychology, image analysis, biology, and forestry. However, these models have several well known shortcomings: (i) they can result in poorly fitting models, that is, simulations from fitted models often do not produce realizations that look like the observed data; (ii) phase transitions and the presence o…

Mean-field theory of the general-spin Ising model
Lourens Waldorp, Tuan Pham, Han L. J. van der Maas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21638 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Mean-field theory of the general-spin Ising model
Motivated by modelling in physics and other disciplines, such as sociology and psychology, we derive the mean field of the general-spin Ising model from the variational principle of the Gibbs free energy. The general-spin Ising model has $2k+1$ spin values, generated by $-(k-j)/k$, with $j=0,1,2\ldots,2k$, such that for $k=1$ we obtain $-1,0,1$, for example; the Hamiltonian is identical to that of the standard Ising model. The general-spin Ising model exhibits spontaneous magnetisation, similar…

Artificial phantasia: Evidence for propositional reasoning-based mental imagery in large language models https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23108 on the representation of visual imagery in humans; more information in the Bluesky thread

Artificial Phantasia: Evidence for Propositional Reasoning-Based Mental Imagery in Large Language Models
This study offers a novel approach for benchmarking complex cognitive behavior in artificial systems. Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in their training data and can be accomplished solely using natural language, limiting our understanding of their emergent sophisticated cognitive capacities. In this work, we created dozens of novel items of a classic mental imagery task from cognitive psychology. A task which, traditionally, cognitive…

Recommendations include —
•Avoid repeating misinfo w/o correction
•Leverage trusted sources to counter misinformation & provide accurate health info
•Debunk misinformation often &repeatedly w/ evidence-based methods
**•Fund basic & translational
research on the psychology of health misinformation , including effective ways to counter it **

Sander van der Linden (@profsanderlinden.bsky.social)
Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - https://awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/2026-77135-001.pdf

Consciousness As Entropy Reduction (Short Version)
Yifeng Chen, J. W. Sanders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06297 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06297

Consciousness As Entropy Reduction (Short Version)
A model of consciousness is proposed which, having a logical basis, lends itself to simulation using a simple mathematical model called Consciousness as Entropy Reduction (CER). The approach has been inspired by previous models such as GWT, IIT and an earlier less mainstream model called "Feature Map" in Psychology. CER considers the contents of consciousness and subconsciousness as \textit{scenarios}: a vector of patterns (or features) on various "channels" (or feature locations). In CER, a fe…

Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity
Jiayi Zhang, Simon Yu, Derek Chong, Anthony Sicilia, Michael R. Tomz, Christopher D. Manning, Weiyan Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01171

Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity
Post-training alignment often reduces LLM diversity, leading to a phenomenon known as mode collapse. Unlike prior work that attributes this effect to algorithmic limitations, we identify a fundamental, pervasive data-level driver: typicality bias in preference data, whereby annotators systematically favor familiar text as a result of well-established findings in cognitive psychology. We formalize this bias theoretically, verify it on preference datasets empirically, and show that it plays a cen…

Check out my latest article - "The Psychological Architecture of Hope in a Warming World"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-psychological-architecture-of?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

Datasets for Valence and Arousal Inference: A Survey
Helen Schneider, Svetlana Pavlitska, Helen Gremmelmaier, J. Marius Z\"ollner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00738 https://

Datasets for Valence and Arousal Inference: A Survey
Understanding human affect can be used in robotics, marketing, education, human-computer interaction, healthcare, entertainment, autonomous driving, and psychology to enhance decision-making, personalize experiences, and improve emotional well-being. This work presents a comprehensive overview of affect inference datasets that utilize continuous valence and arousal labels. We reviewed 25 datasets published between 2008 and 2024, examining key factors such as dataset size, subject distribution, …

From Headlines to Holdings: Deep Learning for Smarter Portfolio Decisions
Yun Lin, Jiawei Lou, Jinghe Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24144 https://arxiv.…

From Headlines to Holdings: Deep Learning for Smarter Portfolio Decisions
Deep learning offers new tools for portfolio optimization. We present an end-to-end framework that directly learns portfolio weights by combining Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks to model temporal patterns, Graph Attention Networks (GAT) to capture evolving inter-stock relationships, and sentiment analysis of financial news to reflect market psychology. Unlike prior approaches, our model unifies these elements in a single pipeline that produces daily allocations. It avoids the traditional…

From Superficial Outputs to Superficial Learning: Risks of Large Language Models in Education
Iris Delikoura (May), Yi. R (May), Fung, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21972 …

From Superficial Outputs to Superficial Learning: Risks of Large Language Models in Education
Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming education by enabling personalization, feedback, and knowledge access, while also raising concerns about risks to students and learning systems. Yet empirical evidence on these risks remains fragmented. This paper presents a systematic review of 70 empirical studies across computer science, education, and psychology. Guided by four research questions, we examine: (i) which applications of LLMs in education have been most frequently explored; (ii) ho…

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Exploring aperiodic, complexity and entropic brain changes during non-ordinary states of consciousness
Victor Oswald (Conscious Care Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium, Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience Lab, Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada), Karim Jerbi (Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience Lab, Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada), Corine Sombrun (TranseScience Research…

Sharing my findings from a recent workshop with the Climate Psychology Alliance: https://www.brichapman.com/p/what-is-emerging-what-is-in-the-way?r=1o5n19&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Elephants Remember: On Activism, Memory, and Holding the World Steady
Not all activism is about pushing forward. Sometimes it’s about remembering, holding, and steadying what’s worth saving. A reflection on emergence, tenderness, and what the elephants can teach us about endurance.

TraitSpaces: Towards Interpretable Visual Creativity for Human-AI Co-Creation
Prerna Luthra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24326 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.243…

TraitSpaces: Towards Interpretable Visual Creativity for Human-AI Co-Creation
We introduce a psychologically grounded and artist-informed framework for modeling visual creativity across four domains: Inner, Outer, Imaginative, and Moral Worlds. Drawing on interviews with practicing artists and theories from psychology, we define 12 traits that capture affective, symbolic, cultural, and ethical dimensions of creativity.Using 20k artworks from the SemArt dataset, we annotate images with GPT 4.1 using detailed, theory-aligned prompts, and evaluate the learnability of these …

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Affective Computing and Emotional Data: Challenges and Implications in Privacy Regulations, The AI Act, and Ethics in Large Language Models
Nicola Fabiano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20153

Affective Computing and Emotional Data: Challenges and Implications in Privacy Regulations, The AI Act, and Ethics in Large Language Models
This paper examines the integration of emotional intelligence into artificial intelligence systems, with a focus on affective computing and the growing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Claude, to recognize and respond to human emotions. Drawing on interdisciplinary research that combines computer science, psychology, and neuroscience, the study analyzes foundational neural architectures - CNNs for processing facial expressions and RNNs for sequential data, such …

Debiasing the Influence of Demographic and Appearance Cues in Social Engineering via Role-Taking: Negative Results
Tourjana Islam Supti (College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar), Israa Abuelezz (College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar), Aya Muhanad (College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar), Mahmoud Barhmagi (College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar), Ala Yankouskaya (Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK), Kha…

Debiasing the Influence of Demographic and Appearance Cues in Social Engineering via Role-Taking: Negative Results
This study investigates the efficacy of role-taking and literacy-based interventions in reducing the influence of appearance cues, such as gender, age, ethnicity, and clothing style, on trust and risk-taking in social engineering contexts. A-4 (Group: Control, Literacy, Persuader, Persuadee) * 2 (Time: Pre, Post) mixed factorial design was implemented over two weeks with 139 participants. The control group received no material. The literacy group attended two sessions focused on how behavior ca…

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

It seems that both AI and climate anxiety share a common root: the current structure of capitalism.
Our system, which demands constant, unrestricted growth, shapes everything from our economy to our psychology.
In the climate crisis, it manifests as overproduction and overconsumption, while in AI, it drives the replacement of human labor with cheaper machine labor and the optimization of attention economies.

Do You Have AI Anxiety? Understanding Fear, Capitalism, and the Future
AI and climate change trigger similar fears about the future. Learn how to transform anxiety into empowerment by understanding the systems beneath both crises and envisioning the world you want to build.

Quantum-like representation of neuronal networks' activity: modeling "mental entanglement"
Andrei Khrennikov, Makiko Yamada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16253 https:…

Quantum-like representation of neuronal networks' activity: modeling "mental entanglement"
Quantum-like modeling (QLM) - quantum theory applications outside of physics - are intensively developed with applications in biology, cognition, psychology, and decision-making. For cognition, QLM should be distinguished from quantum reductionist models in the spirit of Hameroff and Penrose and well as Umezawa and Vitiello. QLM is not concerned with just quantum physical processes in the brain but also QL information processing by macroscopic neuronal structures. Although QLM of cognition and …