I'm not a big linkedin user, but I have noticed over the while that there are a number of psychology communities on the site.
What are the major psychology, and cognitive science communities on Linkedin?
What strategies might be effective in promoting the site to these communities?
By my back of the envelope estimation, there must be close to a million students studying psychology or cognitive science at any given moment (i.e., 1000 universities each with 1000 students).
So far, I have not seen a single question inspired by a university student struggling to understand co...
I really like Reddit and I really like Stack Exchange.
Reddit provides a great environment for community building, link sharing, and discussion. It does provide some support for questions and answers; however, it is very different from the aims of Stack Exchange. It's much less structured, and ...
I know a bit about Reddit (see discussion on meta here). Key features for this discussion include the ability to post links and the existence of large communities interested in cognitive science, psychology and related areas. However, I realise there is a whole world of social network sites out t...
Human beings are inclined to "praise" the unknown, and are often afraid of the unknown. This inclination has led to the creation of mythology and many gods. To this date we are still carrying this habit on our daily lives.
"Oh, look at these crop circles, aliens must have created them!"
"Oh, h...
@JeromyAnglim: What was wrong with 'belief'? I know the 'faith' edit was wrong, but why wouldn't belief be spot on?
Same goes for the tag edit. Would just tag it 'belief'.
Just my two cents ...
I kind of feel guilty for answering the question rather simplistically. The problem often is once there is an answer with an up vote, people don't bother answering anymore, and I'm guessing there is a lot more detailed information about this out there!
I might look more into the subject when I have some spare time to enhance my answer.
It seemed to me that the OP thought the emphasis on "praise and fear" was important. Some else had changed it to faith. But it's a very long question, so sorry if I've taken it off track. The main change I wanted to make was to ensure that it had some clear questions at the end; as it stood it was a lot of text and it was hard to find the actual question.
But I don't mind, if you think belief would be more appropriate.
@JeromyAnglim It's not off track ... faith made it off track, so it definitely needed to be corrected. And I figured since the OP didn't answer in the comments anymore to the title change that he was OK with it. My problem with praise and fear is it is too specific and makes up a bad question title. At least I interpret the question (especially the ending one) to be belief in general, and not just praise or fear. You can add awe/joy/curiosity/ ... as well following that trend. :)
@JeromyAnglim I definitely find your actual questions at the bottom an improvement. It's just the title I was worried about. (and the magical-thinking tag) :)
I really love the The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's definition: "Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true."
I've read some bad reviews on the book in my answer, so I'm afraid it's not really a proper answer. But then again, there might not be an answer out there yet.
@JeromyAnglim prompting people to provide a definition or suggesting one can be very helpful, sometimes questions about definition can be even better questions:
After asking the question What is the most complex neural network... I realized I don't really have a good metric of "complexity" in a general sense. The simplest measure would likely be count of neurons or number of synapses, but that fails to take into account the structure of the network.
A c...
so I asked a question which is dangerously close to evolutionary psychology. I specifically asked for formal models that answer the question, and even included two as references of a partial answer (restricted just to the case of language acquisition instead of general learning and neural plasticity). However, the question keep generating comments-as-answers which are inherently non-formal or not addressing the question. What should I do?
am I being too demanding by asking for references to formal models?
should I ask a question on meta about this? or am I worried too much?
@ArtemKaznatcheev I figured you were asking for evolutionary psychology based answers
It's not entirely clear that you're asking for formal models explicitly though; it's only mentioned in your note toward, but not at, the end
I'd sum up exactly want you want at the top and bottom of the Q and bold something specific like I am specifically interested in formal models explaining this phenomenon
@ArtemKaznatcheev And, as always comment on answers you don't feel answer your question and state why. If you feel they are a poor answer in general (no references, conjecture, incorrect) leave a downvote and explain why as well
@ArtemKaznatcheev; Just brainstorming a few thoughts; I applied a couple of quick edits: (1) the title should capture core aspects of the question (i.e., I've added formal computational model to the question title.
I've also changed the question to bold rather than "quotation".
I'm faced with a UX problem of looking for ways to position a website to increase attendance at future "real world" events, and I'm remembering a study once conducted along these lines (details a bit hazy):
University students were given a presentation on the benefit of receiving flu shots and i...
@ArtemKaznatcheev; I agree with comments by Josh and Ben; I think you're doing the right thing; other options; explain the relationship between language and your question a little more; are you only interested in models that pertain to language or other models;
You may want to offer a bounty at some point if you think the question needs more attention. From the upvotes, the community clearly likes the question. But I think the first step is what you're doing now, thinking about ways to make the question clearer.
hahaha yeah really. This is one of the many benefits I enjoy about working from home. T-Shirt is proper attire :-D
cleans up some stars
Not sure if you all were aware @BenBrocka @StevenJeuris @JeromyAnglim but I made you all owners of this room. Considering us four were the most active chatters it seemed appropriate
@JeromyAnglim Basically it means you can pin messages (stars which never go away, useful for announcements), migrate messages to other rooms, manage RSS feeds, clear stars, set the topic/description, etc
@JeromyAnglim seems good to me. Quite good I'd say... but I am not basing that on any sort of metric other than my gut feeling, so take that with a grain of salt ;-)
@Josh I've been keeping a close eye on new people contributing answers, and it's been good to see each day at least a couple of new users with cogsci / pscyh backgrounds contributing well researched answers.
i happen to be one of the few boneheads who doesn't believe NLP and computational linguistics should be lumped together with AI, even if our findings are helpful to those folks :P
I am looking for scholarly, peer-reviewed articles that discuss natural language processing (NLP) involving chat or text messaging lingo/acronyms and the affect of chat participants based on language and emoticons. Anyone have a good recommendation?
I am already familiar with the recent work in...
We had a question:
What was the the study called that was on commitment and follow-through and involved college students attending a follow-up event?
The essential features:
the OP wants to know the name or reference to a study
the OP knows that the study exists and has some details about t...
Tim Stone over at MSO is trying to write a bot to analyze Stack Exchange election town hall chats. But it's nowhere near as complex as your question
Although with how long it's taking him it might as well analyze people's moods. He's been working on it for like ten years. Okay, maybe one and a half years, but still
Okay. good to know; I'm used to most people being in Europe and America; I have my ubuntu clock which lists the times of the major US, and european time zones.
Human beings are inclined to "praise" the unknown, and are often afraid of the unknown. This inclination has led to the creation of mythology and many gods. To this date we are still carrying this habit on our daily lives.
"Oh, look at these crop circles, aliens must have created them!"
"Oh, h...
I am looking for scholarly, peer-reviewed articles that discuss natural language processing (NLP) involving chat or text messaging lingo/acronyms and the affect of chat participants based on language and emoticons. Anyone have a good recommendation?
I am already familiar with the recent work in...
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