Why We Do What We Do

Mystic healing practices existed in many cultures for a large proportion of human history. But for a few hundred years, people, mostly women, were tortured and killed under suspicion of practicing witchcraft. Religious groups were largely responsible for these horrible act, which also turned out to be lucrative.

Links for Today:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/witchcraft-juliet-diaz/605518/ (The Rise of Witchcraft)

https://youtu.be/rW4XFiHUQAs (Crashcourse on persecuting witchcraft)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60653.Cows_Pigs_Wars_and_Witches (Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Wtiches by Marvin Harris)

https://www.theskepticsguide.org/our-book (The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Book)

http://hca.gilead.org.il/tinderbx.html (The Tinderbox by Hans Christian Anderson)
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There are potential evolutionary reasons for fear of darkness, but our language also plays a role. This specific fear, nyctophobia, is relatively innocuous and has some fairly basic treatments. Listen in to learn about why we fear and how systematic desensitization is used to treat it.

Links for Today:

https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-the-evolutionary-reason-why-we-re-afraid-of-the-dark (Evolutionary reason for fearing darkness)

http://yourdost.com/blog/2016/03/the-psychology-of-fear-of-the-dark.html?q=%2Fblog%2F2016%2F03%2Fthe-psychology-of-fear-of-the-dark.html (More evolution and stats about fear of darkness)

https://www.verywellmind.com/fear-of-dark-2671872 (Symptoms and treatment of nyctophobia)

https://www.verywellmind.com/diagnosing-a-specific-phobia-2671981 (Diagnostic criteria for specific phobia disorders)

https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation-ebook/dp/B076NVFT5P/ref=sr_1_2?crid=10L25TZN4UV4U&dchild=1&keywords=the+coddling+of+the+american+mind&qid=1600603082&sprefix=the+coddling+%2Caps%2C145&sr=8-2 (Book on getting over fear of darkness)

https://letgrow.org/prof-jonathan-haidt-on-how-overparenting-backfires-and-how-to-undo-the-damage/ (Overparenting as it contributes to fear of darkness)

https://www.healthline.com/health/nyctophobia#treatment (Treatment for nyctophobia)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.850.9170&rep=rep1&type=pdf (Unpublished dissertation on desensitization to reduce fear of darkness in children)

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Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green Party. For this and the next episode, we sit down and interview everyday citizens who are registered to one of the four largest voting political parties in the United States. We keep it positive and they talk about why they find common ground with their aligned party.

Links for Today:

https://www.reuters.com/

https://www.bbc.com/news

https://howiehawkins.us/

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Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green Party. For this and the next episode, we sit down and interview everyday citizens who are registered to one of the four largest voting political parties in the United States. We keep it positive and they talk about why they find common ground with their aligned party.

Links for Today:

https://www.reuters.com/

https://www.bbc.com/news

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Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green Party. For this and the next two episodes, we sit down and interview everyday citizens who are registered to one of the four largest voting political parties in the United States. We keep it positive and they talk about why they find common ground with their aligned party.

Links for Today:

https://www.reuters.com/

https://www.bbc.com/news
https://www.amazon.com/Debunking-Utopia-Exposing-Nordic-Socialism/dp/1944229396

https://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Understand/dp/0517548232

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947492454/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_qCsxFbNN19C3S

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Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green Party. For this and the next three episodes, we sit down and interview everyday citizens who are registered to one of the four largest voting political parties in the United States. We keep it positive and they talk about why they find common ground with their aligned party.

Links for Today:

https://www.reuters.com/

https://www.bbc.com/news

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/through-the-language-glass/201006/tell-me-who-your-euphemisms-are-and-i-ll-tell-you-who-you-are

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/laugh-cry-live/201909/why-grieving-parents-detest-platitudes-euphemisms-jargon

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/laugh-cry-live/201909/how-euphemisms-platitudes-jargon-push-away-the-bereaved

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-freud/201604/therapeutic-euphemism-niceness-isnt-always-kind

https://www.slideshare.net/jeiAnnmorano/euphemism-37839303

https://www.dailywritingtips.com/7-types-of-euphemism/

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/euphemism-140810015055-phpapp01/95/euphemism-1-638.jpg?cb=1407635850

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5459766/

Recommendations:

Abraham:  Cinema Sins Podcast (https://cinemasins.com/)

Shane: Write to your family and friends in prison

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Euphemisms act as selected by a given verbal community often as an
alternative to a subject that has been regarded as touchy, uncomfortable, or
politically incorrect. These usually include humorous replacements and in some cases
can even be misleading. There are several forms of euphemisms that offer potential
for some comical alternatives to certain topics, fostering creative slang among
professionals, youths, and others. However, while slang positively units individuals
in certain communities, euphemisms should be carefully considered in scientific
communities that seek to maintain consistency and objectivity in their research.
Further dissemination of scientific jargon may require comfortable translation or
euphemisms, but its source should not.

Links for Today:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/through-the-language-glass/201006/tell-me-who-your-euphemisms-are-and-i-ll-tell-you-who-you-are

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/laugh-cry-live/201909/why-grieving-parents-detest-platitudes-euphemisms-jargon

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/laugh-cry-live/201909/how-euphemisms-platitudes-jargon-push-away-the-bereaved

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-freud/201604/therapeutic-euphemism-niceness-isnt-always-kind

https://www.slideshare.net/jeiAnnmorano/euphemism-37839303

https://www.dailywritingtips.com/7-types-of-euphemism/

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/euphemism-140810015055-phpapp01/95/euphemism-1-638.jpg?cb=1407635850

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5459766/

Recommendations:

Abraham:  Cinema Sins Podcast (https://cinemasins.com/)

Shane: Write to your family and friends in prison

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It's never too late to learn something new! Learning and teaching are inherently linked, so we spend some time reviewing the best most-evidence based strategies for teaching new skills, learning new skills, and how to practice. This can be summarized as: Break the new skill into smaller component skills, build fluency at component skills, have some self-reward system in place, have someone hold you accountable, track your progress, and practice practice practice.
Links for Today:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170828-the-amazing-fertility-of-the-older-mind (story of 90-year-old who went to school to learn to read and write)

https://www.scoe.org/files/explicit-instruction.pdf (Presentation on efficient and effective instruction from Anita Archer)

https://www.td.org/newsletters/atd-links/key-ingredients-for-learning (Main ingredients from cognitive psychology for learning a new skill)

https://zapier.com/blog/learning-new-skills/ (10 strategies for learning something new, blog)

https://agileleanlife.com/how-long-to-practice/ (Lessons from learning to code on computers, source of the quote: practice until fear turns to boredom)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/pdf/DeliberatePractice%28PsychologicalReview%29.pdf (The article that popularized the idea that 10,000 hours of practice leads to expertise)

Recommendations:

Abraham:  Association on American Indian Affairs (Native American) https://www.indian-affairs.org/

Shane: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (http://www.harukimurakami.com/book/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle)

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Black Lives Matter.

Special guests Jelisa Scott and Mawule Sevon talk anti-racism and growing up with dark skin in the United States.

Links for Today:
Check out Jelisa's Podcast: Be Better (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-be-better/id1476015868?i=1000446486643)

Recommendations:
Jelisa: Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cateteria? (https://www.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria/dp/0465060684)

Mawule: How to be an Anti-Racist (https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283)

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Workplace performance, be it group or an individual, is something that has been studied for decades. Nearly 100 years ago, a series of studies on worker performance yielded an interpretation that an increase in productivity occurred regardless of the manipulation of the independent variable. Researchers at the time attributed these changes to the presence of the experimenters, noting that workers must be trying to please them per the experiment at hand. More recent interpretations have shifted, and extraneous variables present during the original experiment and failure to find evidence of such an effect in later studies have led researchers to believe the Hawthorne Effect to be a myth. Conventional belief is that any change in worker performance can be directly related to factors in the environment or changes in reinforcement and punishment schedules, be it pay, workplace conditions, or social structures.
Links for Today:

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/baycollege-introbusiness/chapter/video-hawthorne-studies-at-att/

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hawthorne-effect.asp#:~:text=The%20Hawthorne%20Effect%20refers%20to%2Cbecause%20they%20are%20being%20observed.&text=The%20Hawthorne%20experiments%20were%20originally%2Ctelephone%20parts%20factory%20in%20Hawthorne.

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-hawthorne-effect-2795234

https://youtu.be/KKBw4Im2iwk

https://us.experteer.com/magazine/impact-of-hawthorne-effect-on-productivity-at-work/

https://www.statisticshowto.com/experimental-design/hawthorne-effect/

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-glossary-of-human-computer-interaction/demand-characteristics

Recommendations:
Shane: The Beastie Boys

Araham: Science Friday Podcast https://www.sciencefriday.com/)

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