Handshake: The next partisan issue?

[Doctor Phibes]

Everybody's a psychologist nowadays, and weirdly enough all the psychology we read that isn't clearly nonsense seems to reinforce what we already knew to be true.

[Horace]

@doctor-phibes said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Everybody's a psychologist nowadays, and weirdly enough all the psychology we read that isn't clearly nonsense seems to reinforce what we already knew to be true.

That's called confirmation bias. You should read up on it, it's fascinating. Maybe jon has some recommended reading.

[jon-nyc]

@horace said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Maybe jon has some recommended reading.

I do

[Larry]

@klaus said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

@larry said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

@jon-nyc said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Sanctity and purity resonate far more with conservatives too.

Jonathan Haidt did lots of work on this and published The Righteous Mind for a lay audience.

Hsidt's "specialty" is "the psychology of morality and moral emotions".

In other words, he's a moron.

Have you ever considered the possibility that people who are experts in areas you know nothing about are not necessarily morons?

Have you ever considered the possibility that I might know more about this area than you think?

[jon-nyc]

Not for one second.

[Doctor Phibes]

@larry said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

@klaus said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

@larry said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

@jon-nyc said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Sanctity and purity resonate far more with conservatives too.

Jonathan Haidt did lots of work on this and published The Righteous Mind for a lay audience.

Hsidt's "specialty" is "the psychology of morality and moral emotions".

In other words, he's a moron.

Have you ever considered the possibility that people who are experts in areas you know nothing about are not necessarily morons?

Have you ever considered the possibility that I might know more about this area than you think?

So you're a moron too?

[Larry]

@jon-nyc said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Not for one second.

Discussing why that is would be futile, and would only make you worse.

[Larry]

Ya gotta love it.... the slightest bit of left lean causes asshole syndrome.

[Doctor Phibes]

@larry said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Ya gotta love it.... the slightest bit of left lean causes asshole syndrome.

So what's your excuse - did you go all the way round and come out the other side?

[Larry]

The other side of what.....

[Klaus]

Speaking of Haidt, I'm looking forward to this video, which brings together three of my favourite intellectuals.

[jon-nyc]

I’ve heard that Haidt guy is a moron.

[Klaus]

@jon-nyc said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

I’ve heard that Haidt guy is a moron.

You are a little unfair. The other two work in a similar field, so they are probably morons, too.