Human Energy Podcast
Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific & cosmic story introducing the noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations in our globalizing world.
Today we face the unprecedented challenges of rapid social change and new technologies which, together with the scientific picture of an aimless universe, have created a crisis of orientation. Human Energy was founded by scientists, scholars, artists, and storytellers to highlight the causal conditions to our challenges and provide solutions for current and future generations. We articulate these solutions through the "Third Story" worldview (https://humanenergy.io/the-three-stories-of-the-universe/) with focus on the emerging noosphere.
We are beginning to visualize the noosphere’s formation; study its potential future scenarios as humanity takes more and more control of its future course; and explore how human beings connecting across the world may realize themselves socially and individually in its development.
Human Energy Podcast
Collective Emotions: Distortions and Belief Traps - Johan Bollen - N2 Conference
Collective Emotions: Distortions and Belief Traps
Presented by Johan Bollen as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023
Large-scale social media data may provide a window into the language, emotions, cognition, and behavior of millions of individuals. In my talk I will discuss the notion of collective emotions and how they can be observed in real-time from large-scale social media data.
I will furthermore discuss a possible connection between the notion of cognitive distortions, unrealistic and overly dichotomous patterns of thought that are associated with internalizing disorders such as depression and anxiety, and social phenomena such as polarization and extremism.
Watch this presentation on our YouTube channel.
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