Ben WaberWe finally had a cool day in Tokyo, and I took the opportunity to go for a good run up into Saitama and listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/5)
First was a thought-provoking talk by @dom on the importance for HCI researchers to build more interoperable, focused systems at Stanford University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DIIkX19ihs (2/5) #HCI
Next was the first day of the National Bureau of Economic Research's economic growth symposium. I particularly liked the talks by Jaedo Choi (dynamics of technology transfer) and Marta Prato (geography of innovative firms) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcKjuYSK474 (3/5) #economics
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Next was "How Emotions are Made" by Lisa Barrett. This is best thought of two books - the first, up to chapter 8, is a revelatory look at the category error we've made around understanding emotions, revealing through a wide variety of experiments and research how emotions are constructed in real time as an act of categorization - they don't "exist" anywhere in the body. The less said about the rest the better
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/7934770/s/an-uneven-mostly-scientific-investigation#anchor-7934770 (4/5) #neuroscience #psychology
Last was "The Measure of Progress" by @DianeCoyle1859, who fully interrogates how we currently measure GDP, its gaps, recent trends in constituent metrics, and how to improve societal welfare metrics more broadly. This is sure to be considered a modern classic. Highly recommend
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/7934854/s/a-masterful-deeply-researched-examination-of-economic-and-welfare-measurement#anchor-7934854 (5/5) #economics
Joost Verweij@bwaber I really liked that book, very insightful. I thought a lot about it lately when I was reading 'It's all in your mind' by Susan O'Sullivan.
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Ulrike Hahn@bwaber @NicoleCRust …this is one possible answer to your question of ‘why aren”t emotions treated like other brain functions”, Nicole
Parham Doustdar@bwaber I loved your concise review. Based on what you saw until chapter 8, what other boks would you say offer better advice than the second half of this book?
@parham_d I don't find self-help books are insightful or useful, and I generally think people should refrain from telling other fields that they know nothing about what to do. If you're interested in the philosophy of law, for example, there are thousands of books on the topic, and many of the more modern books don't perpetuate racist framing like this one does
@bwaber Thanks, that's helpful 🙏
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