Martha Nussbaum Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice
Nussbaum
stimulates readers with challenging insights on the role of emotion in
political life. Her provocative theory of social change shows how a truly just
society might be realized through the cultivation and studied liberation of
emotions, specifically love. To that end, the book sparkles with Nussbaum’s
characteristic literary analysis, drawing from both Western and South Asian
sources, including a deep reading of public monuments. In one especially
notable passage, Nussbaum artfully interprets Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro,
revealing it as a musical meditation on the emotionality of revolutionary
politics and feminism. Such chapters are a culmination of her passion for
seeing art and literature as philosophical texts, a theme in her writing that
she profitably continues here. The elegance with which she negotiates this
diverse material deserves special praise, as she expertly takes the reader through
analyses of philosophy, opera, primatology, psychology, and poetry. In contrast
to thinkers like John Rawls, who imagined an already just world, Nussbaum
addresses how to order our society to reach such a world. A plea for
recognizing the power of art, symbolism, and enchantment in public life,
Nussbaum’s cornucopia of ideas effortlessly commands attention and debate.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17804353-political-emotions
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
Nataliya Kosmyna, Eugene
Hauptmann, Ye
Tong Yuan, Jessica
Situ, Xian-Hao
Liao, Ashly
Vivian Beresnitzky, Iris Braunstein, Pattie
Maes
10 Jun 2025
This study
explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing.
Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only
(no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth
session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and
Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54
participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used
electroencephalography (EEG) to assess cognitive load during essay writing, and
analyzed essays using NLP, as well as scoring essays with the help from human
teachers and an AI judge. Across groups, NERs, n-gram patterns, and topic
ontology showed within-group homogeneity. EEG revealed significant differences
in brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most
distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM
users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in
relation to external tool use. In session 4, LLM-to-Brain participants showed
reduced alpha and beta connectivity, indicating under-engagement. Brain-to-LLM
users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and
prefrontal areas, similar to Search Engine users. Self-reported ownership of
essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group.
LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer
immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over
four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and
behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational
implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into
AI's role in learning….: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Clark
David
Effective
Techniques for Manipulating, Persuading, & Influencing People!
All
of us have experienced manipulation in some form or another in our lives. It
can present itself in the form of a commercial on television, a billboard ad on
the street, or a sales person that is trying to convince you to purchase a
product or service. It can commonly be experienced in your social or personal
relationships such as your friend asking you to borrow something, or your
mother convincing you to attend a family reunion.
There
are many different types of manipulative techniques and this psychological
guidebook will spend some time to look at how manipulation could be affecting
you and how to use it in your benefit.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39856416-manipulation
Dark Psychology And Manipulation: How to Stop Being Manipulated, the Secrets and the Art of Reading People. Psychology of Persuasion, of Narcissist and ... Human Behavior. Winning Influence.
Finally you can access the
power of personal influence
The
fascination with Dark Psychology, the study of the art and science behind
manipulation and mind control, has exploded since this clinical research term
first appeared in academic journals back in 2004.
In Dark
Psychology and Manipulation readers will be taken into the minds, the
behaviors, the tactics and the techniques of the Narcissists, Machiavellians,
Psychopaths, and Everyday Sadists living and working among us.
You’ve
worked with some of these people, you’ve worked for them, you’ve dated them,
married them, divorced them, admired them, feared them, but most of all
wondered what it is that makes them do the dark and disturbing things they do.
Whether it’s your sister going through one relationship after another with an abusive, controlling, manipulative boyfriend, first husband, fiancée; or it’s your own experience of having to work for an egotistical, scheming, backstabbing yet somehow wonderfully charismatic supervisor; or it’s your neighbor’s teenage son who seems to enjoy burning ants in the backyard on the weekends
how
dangerous are these people?
Are
they normal?
Is
their behavior forgivable?
Should
we be modeling some of our own ways of doing things—at work, in romance, at the
grocery store—after them?
Not
all of them are crazy.
Some
of them are even wildly successful—in business, in romance, in general.
Are
they certifiable or is their behavior just a little more extreme than mine?
As
the field of Dark Psychology continues to grow, and researchers, clinical
psychologist, social engineers, therapists, and other experts (and survivors)
continue to find out more about what makes these people tick, you’ll find
analyses of the latest studies in Dark Psychology.
Plus,
the book gives readers quick and easy breakdowns of how each dark personality
is different from the other, and how they are similar.
Learn
more about the Narcissist—and how to spot one, how to know when you’re being
worked by one. Find out why Psychopaths have suddenly become role models for
many a CEO and upper management businessperson.
How
did they go from untouchable to the corporate version of James Bond?
Take
a look at the various techniques used by these personalities of the Dark Triad:
manipulation, brainwashing, seduction.
All
of which are really just after two things: power and control.
Do
yourself a favor: educate yourself before others decide how you should be
educated.
Learn
how others have been trying to seduce you, trying to lead you astray, down a
path that they’ve chosen, not that you chose.
Don’t
be the prey. Which doesn’t mean you have to be the predator, either. It just
means you’ll be able to choose.
It
means you won’t be at the mercy of anyone from this world of Dark Psychology.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46021100-dark-psychology-and-manipulation
Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic Sense of Self
Matthew D. Sacchet; Judson A. Brewer
An emerging science of advanced meditation could transform mental health
and our understanding of consciousness
