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Celeste Kidd
@celestekidd.bsky.social
Professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. Studies how people form beliefs, why the beliefs are sometimes flawed, & how new tech impacts those beliefs.
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August 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The science behind why we so often talk past each other without realising is.gd/5EOJiV

Great chat with Celeste Kidd 'who studies how we acquire and conceptualise information, form beliefs around those concepts, and make sense of the torrent of information blasting our brains each and every second.'
YANSS 257 – The science behind why we so often talk past each other without realizing it and how it impacts everything from politics to penguins
Is a hotdog a sandwich? Well, that depends on your definition of a sandwich (and a hotdog), and according to the most recent research in cognitive science, the odds that your concept of a sandwich …
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October 26, 2023 at 4:47 PM
October 26, 2023 at 4:47 PM
thanks, dan. this exactly. appreciated.
October 24, 2023 at 5:40 PM
The philosophical arguments here are really a distraction from the important issues anyway, despite what these philosophers say. These words matter because they determine people's civil rights—not because language has to be structured one way or the other.
October 23, 2023 at 7:51 PM
But here is a good overview on Stock:
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October 23, 2023 at 7:50 PM
Stock, too, has made more egregious arguments than we had the space to address.
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October 23, 2023 at 7:50 PM
It's a common argument in our field that when something occurs robustly in many diverse cultures–in this case, nonbinary gender categories–it has a good chance of being, well, determined by human biology itself.
October 23, 2023 at 7:50 PM
binary.
Kathoey - Wikipedia
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October 23, 2023 at 7:50 PM