#Empathy

News Safety Update 4# - Lets talk about a technique called Verbal De-Escalation. This is a skill that any journalist can use to help calm an upset person that they
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[thread] On Headstates. What they are and how they're used.Simply put, a headstate can be thought of as a persona so long as you drop out a good deal of
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One of the few ways I go about uncovering user needs is PRODUCT DISCOVERY. A good chunk of our time should be spent in the problem space. The stage we
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Mostly unscientific thread on hyper- and hypo-empathy in radical or subcultural spaces. Short story, they both have problems and are more complex than commonly understood. It impacts a lot. There
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9 skills to learn (with recommended resources): 1. Taking care of your body.Without this, nothing else matters.Exercising. Eating right. Lifting weights.If you've been doing them for a while, they become
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(1) Most of those tweeting #WeAreLGBTQIA mean well, at heart. Some of the neverending alphabet soup of this terminology is unhelpful to the "cause," whatever that is on the day.
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A few COVID-19 long-haulers told me they too disbelieved folks with ME/CFS and similar illnesses until they experienced something similar firsthand—and now deeply regret their previous skepticism. (Some folks w/
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Okay since I’ve uncorked the bottle I’m just going to say a few more thing: Can we just start believing people? Can we start listening to people and thinking critically
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(1/8) Every human on this planet has a mix of Pleiadian, Sirian and/or Alpha Draconian ancestry, in addition to the genetics of the Earth-based hominids. (2/8) The first Neanderthal type
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A lot of the clients I work with are often young adults & NEET. And when delving deeper into their past & how they've got to where they are this
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Psychopaths lack moral reasoning,which gives them an advantage.Thread Clinically diagnosed psychopaths have trouble comprehending moral reasoning. It doesn't make sense for them to adjust their behaviour based on moral conduct.
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THREAD: Been thinking a lot about images of the Jan 6 Capitol Hill attack, Inauguration Day, and cognitive dissonance. It got me wondering how, if ever, we could bring conspiracy-minded
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Since Simon Baron-Cohen seems to have suddenly discovered autistic people’s voices, I want to make a few comments about how damaging his systemising/empathising construct is, from an intersectional point of
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I saw a sign yesterday at the #Seattleprotest that I've been mulling over, and I've decided I need to talk about it. This might get long and might be vaguely
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RAPE IN PRISON (Thread)#TakingOffTheMask, by @JustDetentionSA is a documentary everyone should watch: because it's informative, it triggers one's own reflections, it's harsh, but also gentle.And there are some points that,
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It is crucial to understand people who don’t share your views. But understanding needs to move in all directions, and right now, it’s lopsided. Trump wins, liberals are told we
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