HeyJaredThe Social Mind by Matilda Gosling
Stories and science about how we shape each other’s thoughts, emotions and behaviours.
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Office refusal (opens the original)
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Last week, the Government bravely decided to make it harder for employers to get their office chairs filled out comfortably by staff buttocks. If leaders and managers want to turn down working-from-home requests, they will apparently now have to hold a meeting to explain themselves. This was bravery in the style of Truss’s mini budget and Starmer’s technocratic style of making policy: there are consequences (albeit probably smaller ones), and it’s not entirely clear that policy makers have under
Book news – THE INFECTIOUS MIND (opens the original)
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I’m interrupting normal Substack operations for some professional and very personal news. My latest book, The Infectious Mind, will be out in January with Head of Zeus (Bloomsbury). It explores the social contagion of illness, from medieval dancing plagues, old stories of hysteria and the recovered-memory epidemic through to modern contagions of identity, pain and fatigue. It’s available to pre-order now.<s
There’s a problem with ed tech (opens the original)
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With the new school, college and university term in touching distance, I want to write about ed-tech. There is a problem with it, and it’s not the obvious one about whether humans learn better from a screen or paper (although I will touch on this). It’s a problem that we believe we are solving through school phone bans – one that starts in the classroom and threads its way into the home, via the dank lair of teenage bedrooms.As of June this year, English schools must have mobile-free environment
Anxious generations (opens the original)
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‘The first generation of Americans who went through puberty with smartphones (and the entire internet) in their hands became more anxious, depressed, self-harming, and suicidal,’ wrote Professor in his best-selling book The Anxious Generation. He set out data showing similar patterns across many other countries, and warned readers about ‘tidal waves’ of childhood mental illness. A fleeting search on Google News while writing this piece returned heavy-handed headlines: Why summer can make teen an
Looking-glass selves (opens the original)
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If you’ve applied to or worked for a large employer, you may well have been asked to take a personality test. The most recognisable of these types of test is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which slices groups up into sixteen types of individual. Some of its offshoots create enticing pen portraits – the website 16Personalities, for instance, offers up ‘bold, imaginative and strong-willed leaders’, ‘smart and curious thinkers’ and ‘enthusiastic, creative and sociable free spirits’.To return to t
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