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The meeting will be held on the CILAC Forum YouTube channel on February 18 at 4 p.m. Academic freedom is part of the rights…
He said Walter Benjamin that “He who pays attention to manners but rejects lying is similar to someone who, although he dresses in fashion, does not wear a shirt.”
Therefore, in complex societies it is very difficult not to lie. Because if you always tell the truth, you go naked. And that is precisely why it is so difficult to know what is normal.
Because what we consider normal is what we identify as habitual, But our perception is not always capable of capturing all of reality, much less what remains in darkness, what others hide from themselves.. Therefore, behaviors become more common as they become more and more public.
Lies as a way to lubricate society
Erving Goffman was a Canadian sociologist and anthropologist who developed the so-called theory of impression management or control, that is, dramatized performances of social being with the purpose of controlling the impressions of others. As he himself said:
It is probably no mere historical accident that the original meaning of the word person is mask. It is rather a recognition of the fact that, more or less consciously, always and everywhere, each of us plays a role... It is in these roles that we know each other; It is in these roles where we know ourselves.
In the end, it turns out that lying is wrong, but not always, and we can also lie and even lie to ourselves if it is not noticed, if it goes unnoticed. This arms escalation of the sophistication of sincerity and Lies are the result of an increasingly complex interaction with other people, with the community.. You can expand on all this in the following video:
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What is normal is only what others let you see about themselves: that is, you don't know what is normal.
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Xataka Science
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Sergio Parra
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The world is full of statements like “there is a study that says that…” or “according to a study…”. Added to this is a large number of statements that traditionally have been taken for granted but have never been replicated. Welcome to the replicability crisis galloping that you have been suffering from recently.
This problem is particularly insidious in the field of soft sciences, such as psychology, sociology, etc. That is, sciences where there are too many variables and the complexity is so high that stating anything It should be done with care that you are moving through a terrain full of mines.
Studies in doubt
In short, it is possible that the number of false positives in the scientific literature is much higher than desirable due to a combination of low statistical power, publication bias, and flexibility in analyzing the data. And that is why we are experiencing this great replication crisis.
Next, I am going to present to you some of the most popular statements in psychology and sociology that, however, have not been able to be replicated. This does not mean that they are necessarily false, but rather that the evidence we have of their veracity is very weak.:
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24 statements supported by psychology studies that have not been satisfactorily replicated
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Xataka Science
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Sergio Parra
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Whoever you are, however you behave, whatever ideas you have, you are probably or have been the enemy, the bad guy, the villain of someone else's story. It doesn't matter who you are or what you think. Of course, serial killers and Hitlers are still evil, but most of us are not, despite the fact that people immediately call each other a Nazi or a fascist on Twitter.
How is it possible that there are so many villains? There have always been evil people, toxic people, but now it seems there are more than ever. Which is the reason? The reason, paradoxically, is that now there are more evil people because... people are becoming less evil. We see that the world is going to hell precisely because the world is getting better.
Concept creep
A psychology professor at the University of Melbourne, Nick Haslam, has dedicated himself to researching how the use of concepts such as abuse, addiction, mental illness, trauma, bullying and prejudice has increased. Historically, the meanings of each of these words were relatively limited, but over time they have expanded to include less serious phenomena under their umbrella. Haslam referred to this semantic change as the concept creep.
That is, what concept creep tells us is that, to some extent, problems never go away, because people keep changing the way they define them. It is something that has happened in recent years with the word "machismo." Now there are many more machismo things than before, so it seems that there are more sexists than before, when in reality there are fewer. When the semantic umbrella of “machismo” begins to become too large and one wants to encompass even more, then subdivisions are created, such as “micromachismos.” Or you can even be an ally who is indirectly sexist because you do not criticize certain micro-machism enough..
Haslam argues that concept creep occurs both vertically to include less severe examples than before (for example, bullying no longer only includes physical violence but also teasing) and horizontally to include categorically different phenomena ( first only children can be bullied, now adults too, and it can happen in all contexts).
All of this should not be used to trivialize concerns about advancing harm or other modern social problems, but rather to highlight that what you consider threatening or harmful is relative. The more confident you feel, the easier it will be to see the slightest events and trends as harmful, and this is the key to understanding why concept creep occurs. You can expand on all this in the following video:
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The proof that the world is getting better is that now you seem to see people who are more horrible, offensive and evil than before.
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Xataka Science
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Sergio Parra
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Tartini's music is identified with science in its original conception, reconciling nature and art through mastery of the laws of the cosmos.
Men, compared to women, value more same-sex friends who are physically striking or stereotypically attractive, they have high status and wealth and have, in addition, greater access to potential partners.
On the contrary, women, compared to men, value friends who provide emotional support, intimacy and useful social information (gossip), as suggested this recent study from January 2022.
Sexual differences and discriminations
The findings of the aforementioned study suggest that the specific friendship qualities that men and women preferred differed by sex in a consistent manner. with a functional description of friendship.
In other words, men and women have different ways of conceptualizing the world and different strategies for approaching the opposite sex and their own. For this reason, it is utopian to aspire to equality between the sexes or non-discrimination (due to sex or any other factor). For example, Ugliness is a condition that causes the wage gap, greater probability of going to prison, social exclusion, childhood rejection, less probability of being helped, greater propensity to commit crimes...
Legal equality can be aspired to, but social equality would require interventionism in which freedom would be totally or partially annulled. Seeking equality between the sexes and not discrimination is as much as searching through the prism of other conditions: height, beauty, stuttering, strabismus, and even sympathy. You can elaborate a little on this in the following interview.:
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Men value other attractive men more, but women do not.
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Xataka Science
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Sergio Parra
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