Erica Kleinknecht
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Erica Kleinknecht
@psychsoundbites.bsky.social
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Prf. K | Award winning Prof of Cognitive and Developmental Psych who embraces creativity and the practical application of science. | Aims to increase the representation of modern psych-sci content on social media.
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Sharing inspiration today: this is a beautiful promo of the work that my students Daria, Kaya and Jordhan started in the Psych of Serious Games class last semester. Excited to continue working with Daria on this project! youtu.be/PtsiLhEU0tA
They Made a Board Game to Fight Disability Bias, and It Works
YouTube video by Pacific University
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On #InternationalWomensDay, I’d like to share some “everyday” things I suggest to my students, that they can do to push back against implicit sexism and gender bias. How do you help #AccelerateAction ?
Happy #Internationalwomensday. If I were to make a second poster like this, who else should I feature? Name your fav Female Psych-Sci Scholar ☺️
Looking for a distraction from the world at large? I know I am! Today I escaped by gathering my thoughts on P L A Y. What does play look like for you? Love to hear your take on the matter and whether my latest newsletter offered you a new point of view.
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Some thoughts on PLAY
A Wildcard newsletter, where I play a little with both ideas and approach
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This is such a fun idea! I will try to follow along too and perhaps join in as well! Don’t think I can commit to multiple weekly posts … but monthly may be doable?
As I teach the reality of emotion and memory relations and dismantle the clinical lore around repression I have students who are also taking social work classes where VdK’s book is required reading. Terrible that students then have to “take sides” and perform for both classes.
Sad that degree/credentials aren’t enough to guarantee validity of content. Unraveling truth from fiction in the trade-book trauma literature is a daunting and uphill battle.
Of course he has (insert eye roll here). Def worth talking about authority markers more! My students minds are blown when we discuss publishing: they do not realize that trade books like VdK’s are rarely peer reviewed. They assume publishers fact-check.
An important and cogent counter-narrative here worth the read! While the peer review system isn’t flawless it does still serve a vital function of fact-checking and VdK has side-stepped it for many years with this book.
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“The Body Keeps the Score stigmatizes survivors, blames victims, and depoliticizes violence. While masquerading as care for survivors, it creates a hierarchy where marginalized victims are even more marginalized.” My latest, for @motherjones.

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What the most famous book about trauma gets wrong
People kept telling me to read "The Body Keeps the Score." I was shocked at what it actually says.
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Important to keep a counter narrative in circulation! In addition to the summary critiques, the memory science that VdK’s premise rests on is flawed and has been criticized by both clinical and memory scientists for many years. By publishing in the popular press VdK sidesteps critical peer review
Thanks @timreha.bsky.social for the airtime! It was so much fun talking with you about our projects!
So proud of my students representing our work for 8 hours on the expo floor at the @seattleindies.bsky.social Game-Education Industry Collider last month. Amazing what can happen in just one semester when we harness our creative energy for good! #psychology #games

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Daria Tsybina and Adhya Gowda, Pacific University OR, Seattle Indies & EdTech Games & EDU Collider
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After many moments like you are having I created a fill-in-the-blanks template for their first go. After that I progressively pulled back the support. They tend to be so intimidated by the stats that they don’t see the template/script of it.
Agree! Was a definite highlight for us, talking with you!!
Shout-out to my fantastic course-design collaborator @jackiemchen.bsky.social too <3
Shout-out to my students who completely rocked the expo floor at the @seattleindies.bsky.social Games-Education-Industry-Collider last weekend. We displayed our serious game prototypes and our table buzzed for 8 consecutive hours! Lots of learning and connections made: 10 / 10, highly recommend.
We absolutely must keep our eyes — and politics— on AI and untested ED-tech creep. 💯 agree that the issue is more pressing for schools than HE.
Indeed— lots to think about in your report here. That’s a chilling vision you paint of AI-tech enabled edu in the UK. I don’t know a single teacher who wld be on board with that kind of new world order and the research I allude to in my post does not point to a vision like that either.
Totally agree with you that right now is the time to started establishing parameters on the value of human and AI interactions in educational settings. I know that this conversation is about higher ed, but there's great research happening on AI and Kids too, that can already inform decisions