Category: Social-Technical
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Updating MentalModels of Risk
“Updating Mental Models of Risk” Disasters are no longer isolated events. This demands a fundamental change in how we think about and respond to complex risk. Wealth is often thought of as a source of protection—a form of risk mitigation. Yet the security that money buys can paradoxically amplify certain risks. “When complex systems break…
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‘economic denial’
The world is facing a new form of climate denial – not the dismissal of climate science, but a concerted attack on the idea that the economy can be reorganised to fight the crisis, the president of global climate talks has warned. André Corrêa do Lago, the veteran Brazilian diplomat who will direct this year’s…
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A Knowledge Exchange Playbook to Build Resilience
“A Knowledge Exchange Playbook to Build Resilience” Hinrichs, Margaret M. and Patricia Solís (Editors). (2021). A KnowledgeExchange Playbook to Build Resilience. Tempe: Knowledge Exchange for Resilience, Arizona StateUniversity. Washington, D.C.: Global Council for Science and the Environment.Available online at https://resilience.asu.edu/playbook In the face of profound shock and change, individuals, organizations, and communities are seeking new…
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Sensemaking – Eurosense
Eurosense, A European Citizen Sensor Network, is a Europe-wide citizen science network that wants to make the voices of European citizens heard by activists, policy makers and governments.By understanding the experiences of citizens in public life, and the pulse of Europe, we will overcome polarisation and collectively tackle the challenges of our times such as…
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Nested hierarchies in skills – importance of basic education
In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing deeper into their profession. Computer programmers need a solid foundation in basic mathematics; nurses must gain clinical experience and specialized training to become nurse practitioners; a negotiator’s ability to persuade depends on solid communication and active-listening skills. A recent paper published in Nature Human Behaviour mapped the dependency…
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7 communication reasons organizations do not change
“The seven communication reasons organizations do not change“ Results of this study point to the limitations of management and impersonal communication. Change is a messy business, and transformational change will not happen unless management is willing to tolerate the ambiguity and the sense that emerges in communication. Results also point to the importance of communication…
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Perfectionism – anxiety symptoms
“Personality organization and anxiety symptoms: Investigating the mediation of perfectionism“ Personality functioning has increasing significance in the assessment of mental health and mental disorders. Otto Kernberg’s model of personality organization is an extensively applied, theoretically grounded approach to categorizing the severity of personality impairment based on intrapsychic and interpersonal functioning. This study aimed to investigate…
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The Cognitive Life of Maps
The “mapness of maps”—how maps live in interaction with their users, and what this tells us about what they are and how they work.Available as PDF for download. In a sense, maps are temporarily alive for those who design, draw, and use them. They have, for the moment, a cognitive life. To grapple with what…
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Contextualizing predictive minds
“Contextualizing predictive minds” discusses how the structure of human memory seems to be optimized for efficient prediction, planning, and behavior. We propose that these capacities rely on a tripartite structure of memory that includes concepts, events, and contexts—three layers that constitute the mental world model. We suggest that the mechanism that critically increases adaptivity and…
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The primacy of doubt
“The Primacy of Doubt“, By Tim Palmer discusses topics from climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help predict and understand our chaotic world. Tim Palmer brings us his first foray into popular science writing with a carefully considered and often expert exposition on a vast range of subjects. The credo…
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