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mental immunity

Feb 28, 2023

Where Do Librarians Fit in the Effort to Improve Mental Immunity?

Misinformation is an epidemic and librarians are the frontline workers.

Psychology
Education
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Feb 21, 2023

Building Mental Immunity

Education will play a central role in strengthening the mental resilience of current and future generations.

Psychology
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Feb 16, 2023

A Tribalism Vaccine

At the core of human adaptation is the solution to the riddle of how a human mind, which was crafted to work with people we know, evolved the instinct to work with people we don’t. But there was a cost, and the result was a seemingly intractable paradox embedded in humanity’s moral compass.

Psychology
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Feb 14, 2023

Are Some False Beliefs Good For You?

Some psychologists champion what they call ‘positive illusions’, mild misapprehensions about ourselves that are conducive to health and happiness

Psychology
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Feb 9, 2023

Mental Immunity, The Group Mind, and Existential Fear

As a highly social species, humans have an evolved tendency to favor the ‘in-group.’ This trait significantly impacts our immunity, or lack of it, to false or harmful information.

Psychology
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Feb 7, 2023

Witch-Hunting: A Lethal Cultural “Virus”?

New research suggests there may have been Darwinian mechanisms behind the evolution of witch-hunting phenomena.

History
Psychology
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Jan 19, 2023

The Many Faces of Cognitive Immunology

Viewing minds through the lens of cognitive immunology can reveal antidotes to misinformation, disinformation, and information chaos.

Psychology
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Jan 12, 2023

Evolving My View on Mental Immunity

After initially accepting the metaphor of mental immunity as a useful gift from a cherished friend, my more deeply ingrained worldview now appears to be casting doubts upon it.

Psychology
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Jan 10, 2023

Changing A Belief Means Changing How You Feel: The Role of Emotions in Cognitive Immunology

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there’s no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Psychology
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Dec 15, 2022

Bad Ideas Recruit the Mind’s Immune System to Protect Themselves

Some bad ideas get past a mind’s defenses and then hijack the mind’s immune system. These bad ideas recruit the mind’s defenses to protect themselves, even if that recruitment ends up harming the mind that hosts it.

Psychology
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Dec 13, 2022

The Analogy of/and Inoculation Theory to Mental Immunity

Models from epidemiology are increasingly used to better understand how misinformation spreads in online networks.

Health
Psychology
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Dec 8, 2022

Cultural Immune Systems as Parts of Cultural Superorganisms

When the concept of 'organism' is expanded to include groups as organisms, the concepts of both “mental” and “immunity” can be seen in a new light.

Biology
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Dec 6, 2022

The Science of Mental Immunity Has Arrived

The emerging field of “cognitive immunology” may hold solutions to our world’s growing disinformation problems.

Psychology
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