Cognitive Engineering

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Podcast by Aleph Insights

Episodios

  • Why do Good Things always Come to an End?

    03/05/2019 Duración: 25min

    As London’s black cabs move inexorably towards extinction, we ponder whether the progress of civilisation is merely illusory. Image: JamesGardinerCollection via Flickr Things mentioned in this podcast -‘Meditations on Moloch’ from Slate Star Codex: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ -The Tragedy of the Commons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons -Ronald Coast, ‘The Problem of Social Cost’: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/466560 For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss

  • Emotions and Decision-making

    26/04/2019 Duración: 45min

    David Simoes-Brown, CEO of 100%Open, tells us why we should trust our feelings when it comes to important decisions. Image: The Anger of Achilles, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo via Wikipedia Things mentioned in this podcast - David Simoes-Brown, CEO of 100%Open: http://www.100open.com/person/david-simoes-brown/ - Categorising basic emotions: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/hide-and-seek/201601/what-are-basic-emotions For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss

  • When do you Become a Grown-up?

    20/04/2019 Duración: 27min

    When do you grow up? Is there a cut off age to childhood or are we constantly growing up? Image: rawpixel.com Things mentioned in this podcast Commons’s Model of Hierarchical Complexity: https://www.dareassociation.org/documents/GWOF_A_330277%20Introduction.pdf The Seven Ages of Man: https://jrbenjamin.com/2013/06/04/seven-ages-of-man/ David Finkelhore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Finkelhor For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss

  • Algorithmic Bias

    12/04/2019 Duración: 39min

    What happens when algorithms learn to be biased? What does that even mean? We talk to special guest Dr Jess Whittlestone from the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence about whether algorithmic bias is something to worry about, and whether anything can be done about it? Image: CBS Television via Wikipedia Things mentioned in this podcast Danks and London (2017): A taxonomy of types and sources of algorithmic bias - https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/philosophy/docs/london/IJCAI17-AlgorithmicBias-Distrib.pdf Jess Whittlestone (https://jesswhittlestone.com/), and at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence - http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/jess-whittlestone/ The Equality Act 2010 - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/equality-act-2010-guidance For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss

  • Transgender Women and Sports

    29/03/2019 Duración: 24min

    Should transgender women be allowed to compete in women’s sports? Is it unfair on cis women if they do? Is it unfair on trans women if they can’t? Is there a coherent logic to the partitioning of sporting events? Image: by Michael Steele via Getty Images Things mentioned in this podcast - Martina Navratilova’s criticism of transgender women in sport https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/martina-navratilova-transgender-women-sport-cheating-rachel-mckinnon-a8783671.html - Sharron Davies’ criticism of transgender women in sport https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/47428951 - The Heraean Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraean_Games - Eligible impairments for paralympic participation https://www.paralympic.org/classification For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss

  • Modelling Other People

    22/03/2019 Duración: 34min

    Understanding how other people are going to behave is a key element of analysis and forecasting. But professional actors do this all the time. We talk to special guest Edmund Kingsley to find out what insights the acting trade can offer for analysts. Image: Carole Raddato via Wikicommons Things mentioned in this podcast -A summary of attribution biases. https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/chapter/biases-in-attribution/ -Acting Emotions by Elly Konjin https://www.amazon.co.uk/Acting-Emotions-Elly-Konijn/dp/9053564446 -Ed Kingsley on Spotlight https://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/1/M81426.html -@KingsleyEdmund on Twitter https://twitter.com/kingsleyedmund?lang=en For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss

  • Tidiness

    15/03/2019 Duración: 24min

    What’s the point of tidying up? It’s just moving stuff from one place to another. But does it offer cognitive and health benefits, and if so why? Image: My Bed by Tracey Emin. Photo: Karen Bryan via Flickr Things mentioned in this podcast Tidiness guru Marie Kondo https://konmari.com/ McMains and Kastner (2011): clutter makes concentration harder https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21228167 Sitton (1984): we are more positive about people whose desks are messy https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1985-25433-001 Report about a study showing correlation between tidiness and health outcomes http://healthland.time.com/2010/06/02/what-does-a-clean-house-have-to-do-with-health/ Saxbi and Repetti (2010): correlation between perceived clutter at home and mental health https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19934011 Report of a survey showing relationship between tidiness behaviour and sleep https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20110126/want-sleep-better-make-your-bed#1 For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find

  • Americanisms

    01/03/2019 Duración: 26min

    Is the slow creep of Americanisms into the British vernacular a pernicious assault on our linguistic heritage, or should we just chill? Things mentioned in this podcast Goncalves etc al (2018) on the Americanisation of English: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.00781.pdf Britishisms in US English: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249 Differences in US and English Harry Potter editions: https://www.hp-lexicon.org/differences-changes-text/

  • Is Creativity Overrated?

    22/02/2019 Duración: 28min

    Where would we be without the likes of Da Vinci, Turing and Goethe? Things mentioned in this podcast Jordan Peterson on the ‘curse of creativity’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocDli45faiw Wallas’ ‘The Art of Thought’: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Thought-Graham-Wallas-ebook/dp/B00MBPCBQ8 Kaufman and Beghetto on types of creativity: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228345133_Beyond_Big_and_Little_The_Four_C_Model_of_Creativity Guilford (1950) in an early attempt to characterise and measure creativity: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1951-04354-001 Article about factors that influence creativity: https://www.apa.org/pubs/highlights/peeps/issue-85.aspx A review of creativity literature: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/doe/benchmark/ch15.pdf Image: Vea y Lea via Wikipedia

  • Smells like... something

    15/02/2019 Duración: 28min

    Smells like… something Why is smell the oft forgotten sense, and where does following our nose take us? Image: Barney Moss via Flickr Things mentioned in this podcast Wired article on why smells are hard to describe: https://www.wired.com/2014/11/whats-up-with-that-smells-language/ Smell and the reminiscence bump: https://academic.oup.com/chemse/article/37/2/179/273246

  • Great people

    08/02/2019 Duración: 27min

    Russia after Putin - is history shaped by great men and women, or are they just in the right place at the right time? Image: Пресс-служба Президента Российской Федерации via Wikipedia Things mentioned in this podcast Hoffman et al (2011) - a study of the drivers of good leadership https://psyc.franklin.uga.edu/sites/default/files/CVs/Great%20man%20or%20great%20myth_-2%20(1).pdf The most influential people in history according to Wikipedia: https://www.businessinsider.com/wikipedias-most-influential-people-in-history-2016-2?r=US&IR=T Wikipedia’s list of Empires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_empires

  • Reality vs Fiction

    01/02/2019 Duración: 28min

    Is reality killing fiction? Things mentioned in this podcast Scripted dramas are not dying out: https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/2017-scripted-tv-series-fx-john-landgraf-1202653856/ Ranker article on the ‘Dumbest Reality Shows of All Time’: https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-dumbest-reality-shows-of-all-time Vox on the rise of reality TV: https://www.vox.com/2016/1/7/10728206/reality-shows-how-many-peak-tv Image: Anton Mak via Wikipedia

  • Analogies

    25/01/2019 Duración: 28min

    What makes a good analogy? Is Tyrion Lannister a good comparison for Michael Gove? Things mentioned in this podcast Michael Gove is like Tyrion Lannister: https://news.sky.com/story/is-environment-secretary-michael-gove-really-like-his-game-of-thrones-soulmate-tyrion-lannister-11559555 Funes, the Memorious by Borges: https://marom.net.technion.ac.il/files/2016/07/Funes-the-Memorious.pdf Cartesian geometry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system#History Sarah Palin - debt is like slavery: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/palin-isnt-racist-debt-slavery/355165/ Image: Chris McAndrew via parliament.uk

  • Rude Vs Polite

    18/01/2019 Duración: 31min

    Is being polite better than being rude? Does civility really cost nothing and buy you everything? What are the costs of being polite? Image by Jean-Étienne Liotard via Wikipedia Things mentioned in this podcast: Links between agreeableness and outcomes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845351/ Punshing people who are too nice: http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-14719-007 Psychology Today - ‘likeability is overrated’: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wander-woman/201101/quit-being-so-nice

  • Brexit Preppers

    11/01/2019 Duración: 24min

    Are Preppers mad? Or are they wise to get ready for Britain to crash out the EU? Should we stock up on beans and UHT? Image: Vaciando el supermercado via Wikimedia Commons

  • Dodgy Builders

    04/01/2019 Duración: 26min

    Why do builders get such a bad rep? What makes us trust some trades people and not others?

  • Taking Stuff For Granted

    28/12/2018 Duración: 23min

    What things do we take for granted? Will new riches make us happier? Image: Daderot via Wikipedia Things mentioned in this podcast Great Expectations by Dickens: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm Brickman and Campbell (1971) on the hedonic treadmill: http://faculty.som.yale.edu/ShaneFrederick/HedonicTreadmill.pdf Kahneman and Tversky (1981) on framing effects: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/211/4481/453 Fujita and Deiner (2005) on life satisfaction set-points: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cd07/b0fe2babecfdf3821e9db8fc3e654fd341c6.pdf

  • When To Intervene

    14/12/2018 Duración: 28min

    Were Dynasties camera crews right to rescue wild engines? Should we give iPhones to uncontracted peoples? What could possibly go wrong? Image: Christopher Michel via Wikipedia

  • Personality Tests

    07/12/2018 Duración: 31min

    Are personality tests any use? What can they tell us if anything? Or is it like a star-sign? Take the test! https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

  • Remembrance

    02/12/2018 Duración: 23min

    What is Remembrance for? How long should it be observed? Image: Philip Stevens via Wikipedia

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