Getting stuck in the negatives (and how to get unstuck) | Alison Ledgerwood | TEDxUCDavis
Alison Ledgerwood joined the Department of Psychology at UC Davis in 2008 after completing her PhD in social psychology at New York University. She is interested in understanding how people...
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Translator: Tijana Mihajlović Reviewer: Ellen MaloneyHi everyone.Gosh, I wish I could dance, but I can't,and you really don't want me to.So instead I thought I would talk a little today about how people think.I'm fascinated by this question.I'm a social psychologist,which basically means I'm a professional people watcher.So, this is what I do;I try to figure out how humans thinkand how we might be able to think better.Here's something I noticed a few years ago about how I seem to think;here's a typical week in my life,which usually seems to revolve entirely around publishing papers.So here I am,at maximum of my artistic abilities as a stick figure,going along at baseline,and a paper gets accepted.I get this rush, ...
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Translator: Tijana Mihajlović Reviewer: Ellen MaloneyHi everyone.Gosh, I wish I could dance, but I can't,and you really don't want me to.So instead I thought I would talk a little today about how people think.I'm fascinated by this question.I'm a social psychologist,which basically means I'm a professional people watcher.So, this is what I do;I try to figure out how humans thinkand how we might be able to think better.Here's something I noticed a few years ago about how I seem to think;here's a typical week in my life,which usually seems to revolve entirely around publishing papers.So here I am,at maximum of my artistic abilities as a stick figure,going along at baseline,and a paper gets accepted.I get this rush, ...
