Emotion and Membership Trump Reason Most of the Time. Stories Are the Vessel.
‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation
1. Everyone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking.
6. Serious Beliefs Are About Values And Identity
2020-11-05 OGM Call: What's Important Now
2022-05-30 FJB Call: Social Truth?
2022-09-06 BMDA Keynote (Kaunas): Collective Sensemaking for a Future that Makes Sense
2023-08-31 OGM Check-in Call
2024-01-11 OGM Call: Democracy? Governance?
2024-04-11 OGM Call: Trauma (xlnt)
Affective Partisanship (Polarization)
Alt Right Trolls Feel a Sense of Community inside Their Insurgency
Appeal to People's Baser Emotions
Art and Storytelling Are Essential to OGM
Conspiracy Theories Around Coronavirus
Counter lies with emotions, not facts.
David Ropeik: How Risky Is It, Really?
Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking (2022)
Herd Behavior Has Hijacked Our Ability to Think
How Far Will You Go to Feel Part of a Group?
How politics makes us stupid
However, truth and accuracy are not the only things that matter to the human mind. Humans also seem to have a deep desire to belong.
Idols of the Tribe: Group Identity and Political Change
If I just explain the facts, they'll get it, right?
It’s Time to Give Up on Facts
Jerry Michalski — Open Global Mind (Responsible Rebel episode)
No, I Will Not Debate You (2018 xlnt)
Nobody Likes to Be Told that They’re Wrong
People vote from an emotional place.
Politically motivated reasoning . . . appears to be negated by science curiosity.
Practical reasoning is often less about figuring out what’s true, and more about staying in the right tribe. (bing!)
Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Storytelling + Relationships + Resources = Lasting Change
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic
The Surprising Science of How Feelings Help You Think
This Article Won’t Change Your Mind
Tribal World: Group Identity Is All
We Are in a Titanic Battle Over the Narratives in Our Heads (we've always been)
We Have to Build the Future Out of the Past
We Rationalize Our Decisions After the Fact
When it seems that people are voting against their best interests, I think it’s because the battle is about emotions, tribal membership and faith, not logic
Why Facts Don't Convince People (and what you can do about it)
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (xlnt)
Why Fiction Trumps Truth (xlnt)
Willful Blindness (or Ignorance)
With science as with politics, identity often trumps the facts.
You Cannot Reason People Out of Something They Were Not Reasoned Into
Facts Don’t Change People’s Minds Often
Human History Is a Struggle Over the Joystick. Narratives Are Primary Weapons in This Battle.
People Deeply Fear Ostracism
People Often Make Seemingly Irrational Decisions
We Fight to Preserve Membership in Our Tribe
We Jump to Narratives We Like (and Are Often Wrong)
Science Communication (Explaining Science Simply)
Using Data and Feedback for Better Decisions (and overcoming bias)
Your Gut Is Your Second Brain
"When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
“Your Ideas Are Not Your Identity”: Adam Grant on How to Get Better at Changing Your Mind
#BLM Is White People's Problem
1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind.
2. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind
2. Catalytic Decision Making
24 Standard Causes of Human Misjudgement
1910 Beyond Us Zoom on Collective Intelligence
2022-01-06 OGM Check-in Call
2022-05-26 OGM Check-in Call
2023-01-26 OGM Call: Truth and Values
A fact is something we can both know with a high degree of certainty.
A Healthy Entity Has Yin and Yang in Balance
A Play So Powerful, It's Changing Laws
All Corporations Should Become for Benefits
AlphaZero Illustrates (Limited) Computer Creativity
Animals Are More Intelligent Than We Think
Any "orphaned, " connected device in the field >5 years has been p0wn3d
Appeal to Emotion (argumentum ad passiones)
Are we in control of our decisions? (2008)
Articles About Decision Making
Articles About Storytelling
As heat records break, the climate movement has the right answers – but the words are all wrong
Ask What People Need. Then Help.
Attention Is the Rarest and Purest Kind of Generosity
Authors I Disagree With Often
Automation Isn't the Problem - How We Organize Society Is
Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs
Being Heard and Respected, Then Exploring Alternatives
Belief Is a Kind of Blindness
Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza (1632-1677)
Big Questions Around the Future of Work
Books Are Static Souvenirs, Snapshots of Thoughts at a Moment in Time. Their Online Presence Should Be Much Richer.
Businesses Are Waking up to the Human Side
Cancel Culture (Online Shaming)
Cancel Culture Wars Heating up (2020)
Capturing Your Family's Stories
Center for Digital Storytelling
Center for Neural Decision Making
Change My View (2013 CMV)
Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Minds (2004)
Changing Your Mind Can Make You Less Anxious
Chekhov's Gun (every element in a story must be necessary)
Children/Youth Are Far More Capable Than We Think
Choice (Decision) Fatigue
Cities Are Where the Interesting Action Is
Collaborative Decision Making
Collections of Story Recordings for History
Colonialism Has Come Back to Bite the Colonizers
Colonialism, Then Capitalism, Wiped Out Our Hard-won Wisdom
Command and Control (C&C, C2)
Communities Are Like Mushrooms
Companies that Looked Invulnerable, Then Went Kaput
Conservatives Who Changed Their Minds (late)
Consumer Packaged Goods Research
Consumerization Has Made Us Stupider than We Otherwise Would Be
Contingencies, Accidents and Conjunctures
Contrarian Ideas I Believe
Contrarians Who Make (or Made) Sense
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
Decision Analysis (1966 DA)
Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Decision Science Research Group at Berkeley
Decision-Making in Citizen Groups
Degree of Emotional Attachment
Delayed (Deferred) Gratification
Digital Tools Easier to Grasp
DMDU Society – The Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty
Does Reason Know What It Is Missing?
Does Technology Make Us More or Less Literate? (or dumb?)
Does the Internet Sharpen or Distort Facts?
Don’t Try to Overwhelm with a Barrage of Facts
Each Person Is the Center of Their Own Universe
Eclipse of Reason (1947 Horkheimer)
eDemocracy (Electronic Democracy)
Emily Falk: How the Brain Changes Its Mind
Emotion and Decision Making
Emotion Markup Language (EML)
Emotional Self-Regulation (Managing Your Emotions)
Emulating Humans Is the Wrong Goal for Robots and Machine Intelligence
Endogamy (only marrying inside your group)
Episode 1681 Scott Adams: Facts Don’t Matter. It Only Matters How Much We Hated You Before You Spoke
Equity feels like loss to those who have privilege
Everyday Rituals (thanks, meals)
Everyone Is Entitled to His Own Opinion, But Not to His Own Facts.
Everything is Deeply Intertwingled
Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind
Executives Who Mislead Should Be Punished
Exogamy (marrying outside your social group)
Extrinsic Rewards Erode Intrinsic Motivation and Authentic Connection
Facebook Stories (people using Facebook in extraordinary ways)
Facticity (that which resists explanation and interpretation)
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Emotion and Membership Trump Reason Most of the Time. Stories Are the Vessel.
