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Complex Systems Research in Psychology

Han L. J. van der Maas published August 31, 2024 this SFI book “Complex Systems Research in Psychology“, available as PDF for free. Prologue This book is intended for psychologists and social scientists interested in modeling psychological processes using the tools of complex-systems research. The book has three primary objectives. The first is to provide…

walterstiers

2024-09-06

Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens
I Might As Well Be Happy

The Korean best-seller If I’m Going to Live to One Hundred, I Might As Well Be Happy, is a “comforting, insightful, and surprisingly hilarious collection of life lessons” from retired psychiatrist and essayist Rhee Kun Hoo (이근후 1935-). He offers the wisdom he’s learned along the way on everything from forgiveness and regret to perseverance, letting…

walterstiers

2024-09-04

#Sensemaking, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens
Three Orders and levels of Theorizing: unite in complexity …

“A Pragmatist Approach to Complexity Theorizing in Project Studies: Orders and Levels” offers pragmatist recommendations to develop strong theorizing strategies organized in a triad: 1. orders of theorizing (degree of recursiveness of the theorizing process), 2. levels of theorizing (interactions between micro, meso, and macro loci of analysis), and 3. the integration between orders and…

walterstiers

2024-08-20

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens
New Stakeholder Theory to rescue the megaproject puzzle …

“Cracking the megaproject puzzle: A stakeholder perspective?” advocates the perspective ” new stakeholder theory ” to make sense of empirical regularities in megaprojects, so make sense of delays, cost growth, and scope creep. It is suggested that empirical regularities are not isomorphic with bad management and/or dishonesty, but rather an outcome of the ‘rules of the game’.…

walterstiers

2024-08-20

#stakeholder economy, Complexity, Policy, Sustainability

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens
Values to Vision scenarios for bridging the gap.

Some insights I would like to share from Uri Avin, Robert Goodspeed & Lily Murnen: From Exploratory Scenarios to Plans: Bridging the Gap. Many planners may be familiar with normative scenario planning. With roots in the tradition of utopian plans, normative scenario planning similarly seeks to create a scenario that describes a desirable vision for…

walterstiers

2024-08-20

#Sensemaking, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Innovation Games, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens
wisdom perception across 12 countries

Wisdom is the hallmark of social judgment, but how people across cultures recognize wisdom remains unclear—distinct philosophical traditions suggest different views of wisdom’s cardinal features. This article in Nature Communications explores perception of wise minds across 16 socio-economically and culturally diverse convenience samples from 12 countries. Participants assessed wisdom exemplars, non-exemplars, and themselves on 19…

walterstiers

2024-08-18

#Sensemaking, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens
Bayesian inference from the ground up

Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and Dora Matzke developed a course book “Bayesian inference from the ground up: The theory of common sense” will be made freely available on their BayesianSpectacles website. Click here to obtain the first 27 chapters and 4 appendix chapters. The website is full of interesting information, including the Let’s Poke a Pizza: A New…

walterstiers

2024-08-13

Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens
Do we all see the same colours?

Patrick Mineault made a little app to test if we all see the same colours. https://ismy.blue He did the test, and in the end, yes, his wife has consistently different blue/green boundaries. It takes access to an adaptive optics ophthalmoscope to figure out if it’s a cone density difference or more of a Sapir-Whorf situation.…

walterstiers

2024-08-13

Biology of Information, Life Ideas

#TheInformationLens
It’s the Biology, Stupid!

“It’s the biology, stupid! Proxy failures in economic decision making” is a commentary by Pier Luigi Sacco (available here), on a work by Yohan J. John et.al.: “Dead rats, dopamine, performance metrics, and peacock tails: Proxy failure is an inherent risk in goal-oriented systems” (also available on ResearchGate) Where the “Dead rats, … peacock tails”…

walterstiers

2024-08-07

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Policy, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens
Slow productivity — here’s why you should adopt it…

The full title is “Slow productivity worked for Marie Curie — here’s why you should adopt it, too“, and yes, it is referring to the book from Cal Newport, I already mentioned a while ago. “… figure out how you can leverage the autonomy you have and how you organize your labour to get away…

walterstiers

2024-08-06

#Sensemaking, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens
Insight –> selection of ideas

“Insight and the selection of ideas” describes the mechanisms underlying Eureka heuristic, explained within an active inference framework. Perhaps it is no accident that insight moments accompany some of humanity’s most important discoveries in science, medicine, and art. Here we propose that feelings of insight play a central role in (heuristically) selecting an idea from…

walterstiers

2024-07-30

#Sensemaking, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Science

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty, #Wicked, bayesian-inference, decision-making, heuristics, philosophy, psychology
the lost art of accomplishment without burnout

The book “Slow Productivity The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout” by Cal Newport. An excerpt is available on the author’s website: “When I first encountered the story of John McPhee’s long days looking up at the leaves in his backyard — a scene from a time long past, when those who made a living…

walterstiers

2024-07-30

Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, cal-newport, productivity, slow-productivity
music and aging | Bayesian inference

“Understanding music and aging through the lens of Bayesian inference“ Bayesian inference has recently gained momentum in explaining music perception and aging. A fundamental mechanism underlying Bayesian inference is the notion of prediction. This framework could explain how predictions pertaining to musical (melodic, rhythmic, harmonic) structures engender action, emotion, and learning, expanding related concepts of music…

walterstiers

2024-07-29

Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens
The Edge of Sentience

“The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.” by Jonathan Birch Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences?…

walterstiers

2024-07-29

#Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked, AI, artificial-intelligence, consciousness, sentience
exploring One Health

The eco-epidemiology of zoonoses is often oversimplified to host-pathogen interactions while findings derived from global datasets are rarely directly transferable to smaller-scale contexts. Through a systematic literature search, we compiled a dataset of naturally occurring zoonotic interactions in Austria, spanning 1975–2022. We introduce the concept of zoonotic web to describe the complex relationships between zoonotic…

walterstiers

2024-07-29

#Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Science

#ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, biodiversity, climate-change, health
“you have to be sincere”

3 Ideas for Communicating Across the Political Divide by Isaac Saul (TED) Does the simple message “1,000 illegal aliens were arrested by US Border Patrol after crossing the southern border on Monday.”give the same message as “1,000 undocumented immigrants turned themselves in to US Border Patrol after crossing the southern border on Monday.” First, we…

walterstiers

2024-07-16

#Sensemaking, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens
Lead with purpose, govern in partnership

Also by Professor Mazzucato from the IIPP: “MISSION CRITICAL 01 Statecraft for the 21st century“ This research draws on expert interviews and builds out from the seminal work of author Professor Mariana Mazzucato at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). She has established clear criteria for missions (Mazzucato, 2019) and made the case for mission-oriented government (Mazzucato,…

walterstiers

2024-07-15

#sense-making, #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, economy, government
Countries must decide what missions can help direct their economies.

Industrial strategy is experiencing a renaissance. Getting the details right matter. Mission-oriented industrial strategy needs to be more than words if we want to avoid missions becoming part of the problem, not the solution. This report (Mission-oriented industrial strategy: global insights) is based on research conducted over the past several years, led by Professor Mazzucato and…

walterstiers

2024-07-15

#sense-making, #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Policy, Science, Social-Technical, Sustainability

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, business, economy, leadership, management
Tim ‘S Jongers legt armoede uit aan mensen met geld

“Armoede uitgelegd aan mensen met geld” van Tim ‘S Jongers is een meer dan waardevol boek om te lezen. In een land geregeerd door welvarende, hoger opgeleide mensen wordt op een beperkte en soms zelfs schadelijke manier naar armoede gekeken. Mensen met geld snappen niet wat armoede is – en toch gaan zij over de…

walterstiers

2024-07-12

#stakeholder economy, Complexity, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked, mental-health
nature was much more inventive

Space scientist Edward Stone served as project scientist for NASA’s Voyager missions for 50 years, as well as playing a major role in many other missions, acting as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and running his own lab at Caltech. Stone has died, aged 88. Here are some remarkable quotes from “Celebrating Voyager’s 40…

walterstiers

2024-07-10

#Sensemaking, #Wicked, Complexity, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens
Facts Don’t – Stories Do

I want to share the great article on LSE by Anna Toomey on “Facts Don’t Change Minds – Social Networks, Group Dialogue, and Stories Do”, based upon the author’s article Why facts don’t change minds: Insights from cognitive science for the improved communication of conservation research, published in Biological Conservation. It is counterintuitive (and not a…

walterstiers

2024-07-08

#sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Information Technology, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, education, philosophy, Science, Sustainability
Market forces are not enough to halt climate change

A very interesting opinion has been published a while ago in the FT: “Market forces are not enough to halt climate change“ I like to repeat the quote used in the “Nature Anthropocene briefing of July 5“, with following comments:The desire for financial returns will mean that fossil fuels continue to be good investments, thus…

walterstiers

2024-07-07

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Sustainability

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens
When liars are considered honest

When honesty relies on sincerity rather than accuracy People in liberal democracies value honesty in their politicians and prioritize honesty over ‘delivering the goods’. How can serial liars be considered honest? This conundrum can be approached from a variety of angles. Here we apply the lens of recent theoretical work that has identified distinct subjective…

walterstiers

2024-05-24

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, honesty, trust, truth
Shifting attention

The Internal Dominance over External Attention (IDEA) hypothesis (I referred to earlier) asserts, contrary to the traditional view of attention as being primarily externally oriented, that attention is inherently biased toward internal information. A related work on attention switching has been published: “Shifting attention between perception and working memory“ Most everyday tasks require shifting the…

walterstiers

2024-05-24

#Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens