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Knowledge practice research note – Belief by James E. Alcock

November 22, 2019 / Leave a Comment

I’m currently reading Belief: What It Means to Believe and Why Our Convictions Are So Compelling by James E. Alcock and I noted with interest that some key chapters address knowledge practices and/or issues and factors relevant to them: Chapter 2 notes the ways cognitive ‘schemas’ often automatically fill in the gaps when responding to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Knowledge practices Tagged: Knowledge practices, psychology

Review of ‘Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)’ by Tavris & Aronson

November 20, 2018 / Leave a Comment

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) – subtitled Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts – is a social psychology book centred on self-justification and cognitive dissonance. The book also implicitly emphasises a particular philosophy of science which is linked to human psychology – it’s this aspect which got my attention. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Knowledge practices, Uncategorized Tagged: psychology, Social psychology

On the psychological plausibility of prospective exercises (i.e. foresight/futures exercises etc.)

April 16, 2017 / 1 Comment

This post began as a research “memo” (written to myself as an entry in a reflective PhD journal) entitled “on psychological plausibility”. I was prompted to write it by a couple of pieces written by David Roberts on current debates about 100% renewable electricity and the feasibility of such goals (see link, link) and other … [Read more…]

Posted in: PhD research, Sustainability issues Tagged: energy transitions, PhD research, psychology, Social psychology

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