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People Skills Are Not Soft Skills

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 15 Comments

People Skills Are Not Soft Skills When you know language matters you don’t to repeat the common discourse that ‘frames’ the Discourse that hides undisclosed assumptions and ideological agenda. I read an AIHS piece about a a so called ‘safety thought leader’ who referred to the skills of Listening, … [Read more...] about People Skills Are Not Soft Skills

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: anchoring, framing, hard skills, priming, soft skills

The Strange Challenge of Unlearning in Safety

June 9, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

The research shows that people are most gullible when: 1. What is presented to them is the first they have heard it 2. The source seems authoritative 3. The ideas seem logical, simple, binary and orderly and, 4. Ideas match popular discourse. It is not likely that people are going to fall for a … [Read more...] about The Strange Challenge of Unlearning in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: anchoring, critical thinking, gullibility, unlearning

Anchoring, Framing and Priming Risk

May 26, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 6 Comments

Anchoring, Framing and Priming Risk One of the foundations of communicating to the unconscious through semiotics is understanding how words, language, signs, symbols and discourse ‘prime’, ‘frame’ and ‘anchor’ at an unconscious level. Every communication operates at a number of levels and it is … [Read more...] about Anchoring, Framing and Priming Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety systems, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: anchoring, priming language

Safety is the Wrong Anchor

January 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

Safety is the Wrong Anchor We are all shaped by starting points, what Jung called Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions (SDICs). SDIC is sometimes known as the 'butterfly effect'. This is the idea central to Chaos Theory that a simple starting point can lead to wickedity. Foundational to SDIC … [Read more...] about Safety is the Wrong Anchor

Filed Under: Robert Long, Semiotics, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: anchoring, zero

Anchoring Safety to Objects

October 30, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Anchoring Safety to Objects Anchoring refers to a human bias that ‘holds’ to a view or position based upon how it was introduced and ‘sunk-cost’ associated with commitment to that position. Anchoring acts as a ‘fast and efficient’ heuristic that short cuts any need for challenge, questioning and … [Read more...] about Anchoring Safety to Objects

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: anchoring, STEM, sunk cost

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