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🔗 Identifying content-based and relational techniques to change behavior in Motivational Interviewing

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Experts identified 38 distinct MI techniques with high agreement on clarity, uniqueness, preciseness, and distinctiveness ratings. Of the identified techniques, 16 were classified as relational techniques. The remaining 22 techniques were classified as content-based. Sixteen of the MI techniques were identified as having substantial overlap with techniques from the BCTTv1. The isolation and classification of MI techniques will provide researchers with the necessary tools to clearly specify MI interventions and test the main and interactive effects of the techniques on health behavior. The distinction between relational and content-based techniques within MI is also an important advance, recognising that changes in motivation and behavior in MI is a function of both intervention content and the interpersonal style in which the content is delivered.

🔗 Torture in a Just World

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If the world is just, only the guilty are tortured. So believers in a just world are more likely to think that the people who are tortured are guilty. Perhaps especially so if they experience the torture closely and so

🔗 Psychology Wiki

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Psychology Wiki is a collaborative editing site enabling academic and practitioner psychologists to contribute towards developing a comprehensive, peer reviewed account of knowledge within the discipline of psychology.

🔗 Why should I care what color the bikeshed is?

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The amount of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the change http://is.gd/hE9vS0

<>It is a long story, or rather it is an old story, but it is quite short actually. C. Northcote Parkinson wrote a book in the early 1960s, called “Parkinson’s Law”, which contains a lot of insight into the dynamics of management.

In the specific example involving the bike shed, the other vital component is an atomic power-plant, I guess that illustrates the age of the book.

Parkinson shows how you can go into the board of directors and get approval for building a multi-million or even billion dollar atomic power plant, but if you want to build a bike shed you will be tangled up …

🔗 TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine | Ideas of the century: neurotrash (41/50)

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In one area, however, philosophers have taken a great interest in fashionable nonsense and in many cases have also fallen for it. I refer to what the philosopher, poet and neurologist Raymond Tallis calls “neurotrash”. By this he means the rewriting of the human person as the human brain, and using the resulting pseudoscience as a purported answer to some philosophical problem – as in Libet on free will, Zeki on aesthetic taste, Ramachandran on self-knowledge and “mirror neurons”, Joshua Greene on moral reasoning, and a thousand similar attempts to reduce the I to the fMRI.

🔗 Nothing to fear but wifi and fluoride - Andrew Potter - Macleans.ca

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These cases have three things in common. First, they are all fears directed at technologies or policies with a clear public benefit. Second, the worry is always about some invisible or undetectable feature of our micro-environment, the alleged negative effects conjured out of radio waves, parts-per-billion, and statistical anomalies. And finally, the strong public resistance to these activities takes place not despite official statements that they are completely safe, but in many cases because of those assurances.

🔗 The Solitary Life: Chilean Miners, Spacemen in Moscow and 20,000 American Prisoners « Prison Photography

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First, after months or years of complete isolation, many prisoners “begin to lose the ability to initiate behavior of any kind—to organize their own lives around activity and purpose. Chronic apathy, lethargy, depression, and despair often result. . . . In extreme cases, prisoners may literally stop behaving” (Haney). [They] become essentially catatonic.