User:Chriswaterguy

Me in brief:

I coach people in clearing anger, bitterness & other negative emotions. I'm keen to be evidence-based about this, but in this field, evidence is often fuzzy, and experience is an important guide.
I've worked in sustainability knowledge-sharing.
I know about wikis, and help run Appropedia, the sustainability wiki.

A communication sequence

I'd like a communication sequence. Here are some initial links and ideas.

What's happening in your reasoning brain:

Arguments as soldiers (in brief)
Politics is the Mind-Killer – "Politics is an important domain to which we should individually apply our rationality—but it's a terrible domain in which to learn rationality, or discuss rationality, unless all the discussants are already rational." & "it doesn't matter whether (you think) the [specific political party] really is at fault. It's just better for the spiritual growth of the community to discuss the issue without invoking color politics."
Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided – "Two primary drivers of policy-one-sidedness are the affect heuristic and the just-world fallacy."
Social aspects of communication (or is that a tautology?):
- Levels of communication
Reasoning isn't about logic (it's about arguing)
Correspondence Bias (also known as the fundamental attribution error) in brief on the wiki)

Emotion and making sense:

Understanding and being understood:

Philosophical Landmines – "If something you say makes people go off on a spiral of bad philosophy, don't get annoyed with them, just fix what you say. This is just being a communications consequentialist."
- Responding to a landmine explosion: It may be best to "abort the conversation." Alternatively, a commenter suggests, "stop taking sides and talk about the plus and minuses of each side."
Inferential distance:
- in brief
- Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low! – "we tend to enormously underestimate the effort required to properly explain things."
- Expecting Short Inferential Distances (explaining in evolutionary terms why this is such a problem today)
Off-LW: Be a Communications Consequentialist, Jesse Galef.

Biases, heuristics and fallacies that affect communication:

Illusion of transparency
Generalizing From One Example (the Typical mind fallacy)
The Halo Effect – "You should be suspicious if the people you know seem to separate too cleanly into devils and angels."

Disagreeing:

Online communication (for further exploration)

(Againstness, noticing)