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Author Archives: Gregory Todd Jones
Augmented Cognition & Information Overload
There is ample (and growing) evidence that human cognitive limitations, some of which may be caused by mismatches between the EEA (the environment of evolutionary adaptation) and today, can lead to information overload conditions that invoke heuristics and biases that … Continue reading
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John Maeda, RISD & High Bandwidth Relationships
There’s been lot’s of talk lately about John Maeda‘s rocky relationship with the Rhode Island School of Design, where he was appointed president in 2007. Digital maven Maeda is not someone that the more “analog” institution understands well, and recently … Continue reading
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Overcoming Political Polarization
Ethan Zuckerman‘s recent piece on the realities of overcoming political polarization weighs in on the recent New York Times poll that found that Americans are in a particularly pessimistic mood about the future. Zuckerman seems to agree with Fareed Zakaria, … Continue reading
Posted in Altruism, Cooperation, Empathy, Identity, Institutional Design, Inter-Group Conflict, Narrative
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Poke the Box
Seth Godin‘s latest “bite-sized,” one-sitting serving, Poke the Box, does what Godin does best – deliver a simple idea or two in a very direct, accessible way. This time, its the well-worn, but nevertheless important, idea that much of success … Continue reading
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A Recipe for Collective Action
Most of us, somewhere back in the receding memories of our education, were exposed to the Prisoner’s Dilemma, that iconic game theoretic formulation that introduced us to the idea of a public good. If we learned this in an economics … Continue reading
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande begins his latest book, The Checklist Manifesto, by bringing to our attention an epistemological crisis of sorts. In his view, most of our history has been marred by errors of ignorance, which came about because we just didn’t … Continue reading
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Thinking With Your Eyes
Lothar Krempel, of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, is leading a highly multi-disciplinary effort to create a scientific method of visualization of network data. While statistical methods, like multidimensional scaling, factor analysis, and correspondence … Continue reading
Posted in Augmented Cognition, Complex Systems, Design, Visualization
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Game Theory on Networks: An In Silico Laboratory
Dan Katz, from Michigan Political Science, the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, and Computational Legal Studies, is including a simulation platform that I wrote in NetLogo as part of the curriculum at the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political … Continue reading
Identity Economics
George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have a new book that proposes to add identity and norms to the economic representation of tastes. Current economic thinking views tastes as a characteristic of the individual, but they suggest that identity derives from … Continue reading
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Understanding Resistance to Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation
My work with Doug Yarn on inter-group conflict, apology, and forgiveness was published in Duke’s Law and Contemporary Problems. The article, along with the other contributions to the volume as pdfs, is available here.
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