Episode 15 - Emotion at Work in Memory & Learning

2018-01-18

In this episode, you get to hear Nick Shackleton-Jones, Sukh Pabial & I explore and share our views of emotion, cognition, memory, and learning. The conversation takes turns and explores areas I didn’t plan or expect and was really interesting all the same. We talk about the affective context model where Nick suggests that as humans everything that we think, has an emotional basis behind it. We talk about using repetition in learning, making things memorable and emotionally evocative, and how at times we just need to attend to what others are concerned about. As we co...

We talk about the affective context model where Nick suggests that as humans everything that we think, has an emotional basis behind it. We talk about using repetition in learning, making things memorable and emotionally evocative, and how at times we just need to attend to what others are concerned about.

As we cover a lot of ground, there are a LOT of resources and links all listed below.

Nick’s original blog post that started this conversation

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-dont-think-nick-shackleton-jones

Sukh’s post in response

https://pabial.wordpress.com/2017/11/29/you-dont-think-except-that-you-do/

Philosophers

Friedrich Nietzsche

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

Martin Heidegger

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger

Relevance Theory

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_theory

Working memory summary

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baddeley%27s_model_of_working_memory

TED talk on how your working memory makes sense of the world

https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_doolittle_how_your_working_memory_makes_sense_of_the_world

Episodic memory summary

https://www.livescience.com/43682-episodic-memory.html

Semantic (or declarative memory)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_memory

Herman Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve

Summary of Bartlett’s 1932 Study ‘war of the ghosts’

https://www.thinkib.net/psychology/page/8195/bartlett-1932

Elizabeth Loftus talking at TED about the fallability of memory

https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory

Harris (1973) study into estimates of basketball player height

http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1973-23011-001

Concern - Task - Resource Model

http://www.aconventional.com/2015/03/concern-task-resource-model.html

Iowa Gambling Study

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_gambling_task

Paul Ekman and Emotion

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emotions-Revealed-Understanding-Faces-Feelings/dp/0753817659/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515765283&sr=8-1&keywords=emotions+revealed

Tal Ben-Shahar and wellbeing and positive psychology

http://www.talbenshahar.com/?CategoryID=170&ArticleID=89

Martin Seligman and positive psychology

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flourish-Understanding-Happiness-Well-Being-Achieve/dp/1857885694/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1515765324&sr=1-3&keywords=martin+seligman

The Charity Mind

https://www.mind.org.uk

Antonio Damasio - Descartes error

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Descartes-Error-Emotion-Reason-Human/dp/0099501643/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1515765517&sr=1-1&keywords=Descartes+error

How we decide by Jonah Lehrer

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-We-Decide-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/0618620117

Daniel Kahneman- Thinking Fast and Slow

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0141033576/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1515767025&sr=1-1&keywords=thinking+fast+and+slow

The TED talk I mention how people look back on their lives positively

https://youtu.be/8KkKuTCFvzI