Sep 6, 2017 04:42 AM
http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/201...itter.html
EXCERPT: [...] There's a simple explanation for this sorry cesspool. Social media puts humanity's most primitive thinking on display for all to see. That's not meant to be an insult, it's simply a matter of psychology. In his bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman makes the case that humans utilize two modes of thinking: system 1 and system 2. System 1 is the more primitive of the two, operating "automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control." On the other hand, system 2 is slow, deliberative, and controlled, used, for example, to fill out a tax form or to check the validity of a complex argument.m It's apparent which system is most prominently used on social media....
MORE: http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/201...itter.html
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EXCERPT: [...] There's a simple explanation for this sorry cesspool. Social media puts humanity's most primitive thinking on display for all to see. That's not meant to be an insult, it's simply a matter of psychology. In his bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman makes the case that humans utilize two modes of thinking: system 1 and system 2. System 1 is the more primitive of the two, operating "automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control." On the other hand, system 2 is slow, deliberative, and controlled, used, for example, to fill out a tax form or to check the validity of a complex argument.m It's apparent which system is most prominently used on social media....
MORE: http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/201...itter.html
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