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#742 - Gurwinder Bhogal - 17 Shocking Lessons About Human Psychology

2024/2/8
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Gurwinder Bhogal：悲观主义并非等同于智慧，而是逃避思考的捷径；信息过载不是主要问题，缺乏信任才是；个人比机构更值得信赖，因为机构容易被低道德成员拖累；判断一个人是否值得信赖，要看他是否愿意公开承认错误；判断一个人是否独立思考，要看他是否会让你感到意外；人们更难以忍受不确定性，而非坏结果本身；对不确定性的厌恶会加剧阴谋论思维；人们害怕表达真实想法，会选择说谎；数字时代，审查制度往往适得其反；在注重形象的社会，表面上的做好事比真正做好事更重要；情绪会影响判断，导致冲动行为；将描述伪装成解释，会扼杀好奇心；创作你自身想看到的内容，才能避免内容趋同；广泛学习比深入研究少数领域更有益；主流媒体报道往往缺乏价值。 Chris：与Gurwinder Bhogal就悲观主义、信任危机、信息时代、以及人们在面对不确定性时的反应等话题进行了深入探讨，并就如何提升自身判断力、避免信息茧房等问题提出了建议。

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A large study across 30 countries found that cynicism is not a sign of intelligence, but rather a way to avoid thinking and protect oneself from potential betrayal and disappointment. However, highly intelligent people tend to be more trusting because they can better determine when cynicism is warranted.
  • Cynicism is often seen as a sign of intelligence in popular culture.
  • Large study showed cynical people tend to have lower IQ scores.
  • Cynicism is a low-cognitive effort way to protect oneself from betrayal.
  • Highly intelligent people tend to be more trusting.

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Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.

Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written yet another megathread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's fantastic, and today we go through some of my favourites.

Expect to learn whether cynical people are actually smarter, why people tend to find uncertain outcomes so intolerable, why people would rather lie than say what they really think, whether people would rather be hated than unknown, why appearing to do good has become more important than actually doing good and much more...

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