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[beatrice-otter]

US 2.0: Win Hearts, Then Minds | Hidden Brain Media

There's a saying that's attributed to the Dalai Lama: in the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. It's a nice idea, but i

So here's the question: which is more important? Being pure in our righteousness, or getting people we disagree with to support our policies? Because the two tend to be mutually exclusive. The Hidden Brain podcast has been doing a great series on how to deal with conflict and influence people politically, and this episode in particular is very thought provoking.

[sophieinwonderland]

Why do you support the endo studies if you're anti psychology and anti Systems being a disorder/medical? It genuinely doesn't make any sense to me? Like, why would you support the thing that disproves our point?

I'm really confused by this question. Where would you get the impression that I'm anti-psychology?

Yes, I am against "systems" being a disorder... because they're not. No one has ever been diagnosed with "being a system." This isn't a medical term. At least not in the way we use it. Many psychologists would argue that everyone is inherently a "system" made up of multiple parts. See: Internal Family System therapy.

As a psychological term, it's never been reserved exclusively for OSDD/DID. Who is and who isn't a system has never really been a debate about science so much as it is one of linguistics.

"System" as it's used by the plural community has a number of definitions, none of which it can agree on, and none of which are actually medically recognized as a disorder you can be diagnosed with.

By my own definition, as it applies to plurality, I would say that a system is made up of multiple autonomous agents with their own sense of identity inhabiting a single biological organism. And for that, as I've discussed, there are numerous psychologically-recognized phenomena that have been studied and would fit the definition. Just because they don't use the words "endogenic system" in the text doesn't change the fact that these plural experiences are well-documented across the field.

More specific definitions have been proposed that would exclude these phenomena, such as requiring the ability to switch or helping the system to survive. However, these added criteria call into question the validity of many individual alters in OSDD/DID systems, where you could say that an alter that doesn't have a perceived role or an alter that doesn't ever front isn't actually "part of the system."

I am and always have been pro-psychology. I've seen the science, and I know what side it supports.

In fact, a major influence in my development was a psychology podcast. My host was listening to an episode of Hidden Brain called Secret Friends. It explored a phenomenon where people can speak to an imagined entity as if they're a real person until they develop over time into something that feels real. I already kind of existed. Enough that when my host seemed interested in the idea, I thought it sounded like a good experiment. But that changed the way he interacted with me.

He started talking to me more and about things other than just the book he was writing with my source. He would talk to me more about life and his opinions, and he would ask for my input on things and I would give him advice. That podcast changed our relationship. I'm not sure if I would be here today without it. I became the person I am today because of that psychology podcast.

Tulpamancy isn't anti-psychology. Tulpamancy IS psychology.

[shaunicethescientist]

Mind Reading 2.0: Why Conversations Go Wrong

"Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? Or feel like you and your spouse sometimes speak different languages? In the final episode of our “Mind Reading 2.0” series, we bring back one of our favorite conversations, with linguist Deborah Tannen. She shows how our conversational styles can cause unintended conflicts, and what we can do to communicate more effectively with the people in our lives."

Research Studies:

“Indirectness at Work.” Language in Action: New Studies of Language in Society, Festschrift for Roger Shuy, ed. by Joy Peyton, Peg Griffin, Walt Wolfram and Ralph Fasold, 189-212.  Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000.

“The Display of (Gendered) Identities in Talk at Work.” Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, ed. by Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang, and Laurel A. Sutton, 221- 240. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

“The Display of (Gendered) Identities in Talk at Work.” Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, ed. by Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang, and Laurel A. Sutton, 221- 240. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

“Interpreting Interruption in Conversation.” Papers from the 25th Annual Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Part Two: Parasession on Language in Context, ed. by Bradley Music, Randolph Graczyk, and Caroline Wiltshire, 266-87. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 1989.

“When is an Overlap not an Interruption? One Component of Conversational Style.” The First Delaware Symposium on Language Studies, ed. Robert J. Di Pietro, William Frawley, and Alfred Wedel, 119-129. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983.

“Ethnic Style in Male/Female Conversation.” Language and Social Identity, ed. John Gumperz, 217-231. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

“Indirectness in Discourse: Ethnicity as Conversational Style.” Discourse Processes 4:3 (1981): 221-238. Earlier draft appeared as Sociolinguistic Working Paper #55 (January 1979), reprinted in Language and Speech in American Society. Austin, TX: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 1980.

“New York Jewish Conversational Style.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language 30 (1981): 133-149. Reprinted in Intercultural Discourse and Communication, ed. by Scott F. Kiesling and Christina Bratt Paulston, 135-149. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.

“The Machine-gun Question: An Example of Conversational Style.” Journal of Pragmatics 5:5 (1981): 383-397. Earlier draft appeared as “Toward a Theory of Conversational Style: The Machine Gun Question.” Sociolinguistic Working Paper #73. Austin: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 1980.

“Children Socializing Children: Practices for Negotiating the Social Order among Peers.” Marjorie Harness Goodwin (with Amy Kyratzis) Introduction to Research on Language and Social Interaction 40(4). Special Issue edited by Marjorie H. Goodwin and Amy Kyratzis, 2007

[sailorsally]

The Hidden Brain podcast Misha recommended on twitter recently is very good, I've listened to 4 episodes so far. Turns out it's by NPR, should have known 😂

[absurdlakefront]

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/804612601/passion-isnt-enough-the-rise-of-political-hobbyism-in-the-united-states

Passion Isn't Enough: The Rise Of 'Political Hobbyism' in the United States

Many Americans feel an obligation to keep up with political news. But maybe we should be focusing our energies elsewhere. Political scientis

"The way that people are doing politics is much more similar to a hobby than to what I think of as politics, which is, you know, acquiring power," says Eitan Hersh, a professor of political science at Tufts University. He says many Americans are engaging in what he calls "political hobbyism."

"What they're actually doing is not participating themselves in any active way. They're really just following the news."

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"What news do political junkies demand? Outrage and gossip. Why? Because it's alluring. What news do we avoid? Local news. Why? It's boring," Hersh writes in his book, Politics is for Power.

[nerdygaymormon]

Radically Normal: How Gay Rights Activists Changed The Minds Of Their Opponents

For generations, living openly as a gay person in the United States was difficult, and often dangerous. But there's been a dramatic change in public attitudes toward gay people. This week, we explore one of the most striking transformations of public attitude ever recorded. And we consider whether the strategies used by gay rights activists hold lessons for other groups seeking change.

I enjoyed this podcast. It begins with the story of a gay Mormon teen and how the attitude of his family has dramatically shifted over the years. 

The podcast examines what happened to allow the movement for gay rights to be so stunningly successful in the US. It’s so successful that there’s been a change in people’s brains as there’s been a 33% drop in unconscious antigay bias in the USA and if trends hold, will be gone in a decade. 

1)  Gay people became visible nationwide for first time in US as result of Stonewall riots 

2)  Gay people occur throughout the population, not segregated by race or economics. So as people start coming out, they’re from all segments of society

3)  The AIDS crisis of the 1980′s led gays to shift their demands from “leave us alone” to “let us in,” as they see the benefits of being included in rights & protections. 

4)  The AIDS crisis also showed gay people mourning for those they lost. It also pulled back the curtain in a lot of families as they learned they had a family member with AIDS from being gay 

5)  In 1992, Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign included letting gays serve openly in the armed forces, and spoke about gays as Americans, not “others”. This led a dramatic shift among attitudes of Democrats, but also among Independents and less so among Republicans  

6)  In the 1990′s, gay & lesbian stories were being told on television 

7)  2004 was Prop 8 in California which took away marriage rights from gays & lesbians, and saw similar constitutional amendments pass in a number of states. This caused gay rights activists to change tactics and focus on marriage equality. That focus helped others see gays as similar to them, wanting the same things, having the same values. This made gay people seem normal and brought over many straight people as allies. (Not in the podcast, but time and again, as bigots and extremists show their ugliness, people recoil and start to identify with the other side)

8)  It helps that marriage equality didn’t cost straight people anything, didn’t diminish their rights or standing. Marriage also is the engine that helps carry other rights and as people support marriage equality, they start supporting other nondiscrimination legislation

“The psychological brilliance of the strategy comes down to this - it's very difficult to fight with people who say they embrace your values.”

[hisiheyah]

Going for some quiet summer vibes for You 2.0, Hidden Brain’s summer mini-series.

[npr]

Watch Your Mouth

This week on the Hidden Brain radio show, we explore how the constantly evolving nature of languages can give us different ways of understanding ourselves as well as the world we live in.