Tag: #DecisionIntelligence
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Legs move, thoughts flow : Physical exercise influences creative thinking
I only give a summary of the article, lacking the capability to understand and read the native language. Still, the summary is very interesting: Creative thinking is the ability to generate novel and useful solutions to a problem, of which divergent and convergent thinking are two common types. Evidence shows that physical exercise may influence…
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Social and Affective Neuroscience of Everyday Human Interaction
I found – rather serendipitous – this recent, open access and very interesting book “Social and Affective Neuroscience of Everyday Human Interaction“, edited by Springer 2023. This Open Access book presents the current state of the art knowledge on social and affective neuroscience based on empirical findings. Some highlights as appetiser: Molecular Imaging of the…
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Avoid the Hijack – Be Emotionally Intelligent
An 80-Year Harvard Study Shows Emotionally Intelligent People Use the Wiser Model to Handle Strong Emotions Don’t let your emotions hijack your actions.Slow down and choose better with the Wiser model. What follows is based on the original text of an Inc.com article by Jessica Stillman, dated May 4, 2023.The opinions expressed here by Inc.com columnists are…
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How Capitalism WASTES Billions
Mariana Mazzucato’s Tour De Force Professor Mariana Mazzucato is one of the world’s most exciting economic thinkers.Her new book – THE BIG CON – exposes how consultancy firms are eating up billions upon billions of pounds working on government projects and using the capitalism game-rules. You won’t think of our economic system the same way…
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Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking
A new theory of embodied consciousness has been described by Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio in Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking. Forget ‘I think therefore I am’. feelings are the source of consciousness. Long dismissed as secondary to reason, feelings are where consciousness begins. Without them, consciousness is impossible – with radical implications for the ‘hard…
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States of Mind (SoMs): TD:BU balance
Noa Herz, Shira Baror, and Moshe Bar discuss in a 2020 opinion article the Overarching States of Mind.We all have our varying mental emphases, inclinations, and biases. These individual dispositions are dynamic in that they can change over time and context. The opinion article proposes that these changing states of mind (SoMs) are holistic in…
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Bayesian Nonlinear Models
The review article Bayesian Nonlinear Models for Repeated Measurement Data gives a valuation of the use for the Bayesian Model to solve complex problems. Nonlinear mixed effects models have become a standard platform for analysis when data is in the form of continuous and repeated measurements of subjects from a population of interest, while temporal…
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The innovation and intelligence of goats …
Goats have not (yet) earned a reputation for their problem-solving abilities. But if you hide food in a strange cup and put a lid on it, a goat may find a way, a new study finds. And not just any goat. Animals that functioned like outsiders in their social group were best at tackling and…
