Tag: mental-health

• Resilience may have downsides…

  Traditionally, resilience has been viewed as a general positive adaptation to stressors. However, the hallmark of resilience – returning to the previous state following a perturbation – may also have severe downsides, which are often overlooked. Specifically, it may be unrealistic to return to the previous state or resilience may cause a person to become…

  walterstiers

  2024-09-23

  Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, mental-health, resilience, wellness

• 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

• Bad Therapy

  I just copied the review of this book – Bad Therapy by @AbigailShrier This is one of the most eye-opening books I’ve ever read. It’s a must read for any parent, any teacher, and should be required reading for any school administrator as well.The book dives into trying to figure out why kids are having…

  walterstiers

  2024-03-11

  #Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Design Thinking, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, anxiety, children, depression, mental-health, parenting

• Simplifying social learning

  Social learning is complex, but people often seem to navigate social environments with ease. This ability creates a puzzle for traditional accounts of reinforcement learning (RL) that assume people negotiate a tradeoff between easy-but-simple behavior (model-free learning) and complex-but-difficult behavior (e.g., model-based learning). This publication offers a theoretical framework for resolving this puzzle: although social…

  walterstiers

  2024-02-08

  #Sensemaking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, education, learning, mental-health, philosophy, psychology