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How is the unconscious in communication critical for understanding and managing risk?

December 28, 2024 by Admin 9 Comments

How is the unconscious in communication critical for understanding and managing risk? This is a great piece by Hayden Collins, submitted as part of his study for the Graduate Certificate in the Psychology of Risk and reprinted here with his permission:   It’s a misconception that … [Read more...] about How is the unconscious in communication critical for understanding and managing risk?

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, critical thinking, Semiotics, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: color, priming language, rational, semiotics, unconscious mind, Zero Harm

Is Safety Rational?

August 10, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

A Logical Fallacy is faulty reasoning to reach a desired conclusion based on faith/belief. It is because Safety is such a religious activity, it is anchored to many of these logical fallacies. You can view the most common logical fallacies and this poster … [Read more...] about Is Safety Rational?

Filed Under: Linguistics, Robert Long Tagged With: fallacies, Logical Fallacy, rational

The Triarchic Mind, Risk and Safety

January 31, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Triarchic Mind, Risk and Safety So much of how we think about decision making is centred on the brain. The common misconception is that the brain is a mainframe computer that directs actions. This is how binary reductionist thinking operates. The human will is centred here in the brain, that … [Read more...] about The Triarchic Mind, Risk and Safety

Filed Under: ALARP, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: dekker, irrational, rational, triarchic mind

The Rational, aRational and Irrational in Safety

November 11, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 9 Comments

Safety seems to avoid the most important things when thinking about tackling risk. There seems to be no interest in safety in the nature of the human unconscious nor any interest in anything outside of a narrow worldview that constructs humans-as-brains-on-bodies and cognition as brain-work. The … [Read more...] about The Rational, aRational and Irrational in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Unconscious Tagged With: AIHS BoK, arational, rational, unconscious

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