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A Neurobiologist’s GuideTo Mind Manipulation
Casey Watts!
@kyloma caseywatts.com
“Intra-LA infusions of garcinol impair training-related acetylation of histone H3 and fear memory consolidation.”My Papers
Casey’s Research
Overview
A. Cognitive Restructuring B. Psychological Safety
Part A Cognitive Restructuring
1. Inner vs Outer Brain2. Brain as a System 3. Downward Spiral 4. CBT background 5. How to CBT
LeDoux’s Dual Pathway
Inner vs Outer Brain
Feelings
Limbic System“inner brain”
“low road”FAST ~ms
Thoughts
Cortex“outer brain”
“high road”
SLOW ~s
1. Inner vs Outer Brain 2. Brain as a System3. Downward Spiral 4. CBT background 5. How to CBT
An Engineer’s System
automatic response“mindful”
deliberate response
Inputs
- stimuli from the environment- things that happen - people’s words/actions
- spontaneous thoughts- spontaneous emotions- current bodily state
Hangry
1. Inner vs Outer Brain 2. Brain as a System 3. Downward Spiral4. CBT background 5. How to CBT
NegativeThoughts
NegativeFeelings
How do we fix this? (hint: it is CBT)
1. Inner vs Outer Brain 2. Brain as a System 3. Downward Spiral 4. CBT background5. How to CBT
Depression Anxiety
Bipolar disorder Eating disorders Schizophrenia
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Mental Illnesses
CBT is as effective as antidepressant drugsfor treating depression
(although both in conjunction is even better)
Everyone benefits from understanding thoughts &
emotions better
Cognitive BehavioralTherapy Training
1. Inner vs Outer Brain 2. Brain as a System 3. Downward Spiral 4. CBT background 5. How to CBT
npm install constant-introspection
debugging tool
automatic input automatic feelings automatic thoughts automatic response
Automatic
automatic input automatic feelings automatic thoughts automatic response
deliberate input deliberate feelings deliberate thoughts deliberate response
Automatic Deliberate
1. Notice input
2. Process emotions & thoughts
3. Choose response
1. Notice Input
Whoop!
congratulate yourself when you notice
2a. Process Emotions
Expand emotional vocabulary
Processing Techniques
- write them out - talk about them
View emotions as data
non-judgmentally
2b. Process Thoughts
Maladaptive Cognitions
or
Unhelpful Thoughts
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
Hangry, wet, raining, late Stepped in a puddle
Hangry, wet, raining, late Stepped in a puddle
“Wet shoes are THE WORST”
Hangry, wet, raining, late Stepped in a puddle
“Wet shoes are THE WORST”
Hangry, wet, raining, late Stepped in a puddle
“If I’m late, I should just not go.”
Hangry, wet, raining, late Stepped in a puddle
“If I’m late, I should just not go.”
Hangry, wet, raining, late Stepped in a puddle
“Today sucks.”
Hangry, wet, raining, late Stepped in a puddle
“Today sucks.”
More Adaptive Thoughts
“I am feeling frustrated”
“This hangriness will go away when I eat”
“I’ll feel great after I dry off”
Maladaptive Cognitions
or
Unhelpful Thoughts
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
This
1. Notice input
2. Process emotions & thoughts
3. Choose response
Other Tools
Joyable (webapp) Therapist CBT Book
links at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
Questions? In particular about:
Emotion in the Brain Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Part B Psychological Safety
PsycSafe Groupvs
“Safe Space”
PsycSafety shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking
- Amy Edmondson
What makes some teams perform better as teams?
(Google)
Failed Correlations
personality types skills
backgrounds management style
Successful Correlations
“group norms” ->
“PsycSafe” team attributes
PsycSafe Traits 1. conversational turn-taking 2. average social sensitivity (~= empathy)
PsycSafe
higher collective IQ
non-PsycSafe
lower collective IQ
Improving PsycSafety
Decrease Riskiness Propinquity Vulnerability Validation
Depersonalize Ideas Task vs Relationship (PEARLS)
Conversational Turn-Taking
Earned Dogmatism Effect Frame as learning
Acknowledge fallibility Ask many questions Declare unknowns
Decrease Riskiness Propinquity Vulnerability Validation
Depersonalize Ideas Task vs Relationship (PEARLS)
Conversational Turn-Taking
Earned Dogmatism Effect Frame as learning
Acknowledge fallibility Ask many questions Declare unknowns
Earned Dogmatism Effect
“I am experienced therefore I am right”
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
Framing this is a “learning opportunity”
not an “execution problem”
Acknowledge Own Fallibility
“I may miss something — I need to hear from you.”
Model Curiosity ask many questions
Declare Unknowns “We’ll probably come across some issues around X”
Earned Dogmatism Effect Frame as learning
Acknowledge fallibility Ask many questions Declare unknowns
Decrease Riskiness Propinquity Vulnerability Validation
Depersonalize Ideas Task vs Relationship (PEARLS)
Conversational Turn-Taking
Earned Dogmatism Effect Frame as learning
Acknowledge fallibility Ask many questions Declare unknowns
Decrease Riskiness Propinquity Vulnerability Validation
Depersonalize Ideas Task vs Relationship (PEARLS)
Conversational Turn-Taking
Earned Dogmatism Effect Frame as learning
Acknowledge fallibility Ask many questions Declare unknowns
Propinquity social closeness
Vulnerability increases trust
Validation recognition and acceptance of another person's thoughts,
feelings, sensations, and behaviors as understandable
(whether or not you agree)
1. Be Present 2. Accurate Reflection 3. Mind Reading 4. Context: their background 5. “anyone would” 6. Radical Genuineness
Validation Levels
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
Depersonalize Ideas Not “Casey’s Idea” but “Idea A”
Task Channel vs Relationship Channel
PEARLS
PEARLS
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
Decrease Riskiness Propinquity Vulnerability Validation
Depersonalize Ideas Task vs Relationship (PEARLS)
Conversational Turn-Taking
Earned Dogmatism Effect Frame as learning
Acknowledge fallibility Ask many questions Declare unknowns
Questions?
Yay! fin
Bonus Content
Why doesn’t everyone already do CBT? Because: - it is a skill people don’t often study - it takes time - it takes energy - it’s uncomfortable at first
but you can power through :)
Haidt’sElephant Model
Post-hocRationalization
Haidt’s“Moral Foundations Theory”
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and freedom.
- Viktor Frankl
Anxiety a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease,
typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
Rumination compulsively focused attention on the symptoms of one's distress, and on its possible causes and
consequences, as opposed to its solutions
More about Joyable (app)
Social Sensitivity“Reading the Mind in the Eyes”
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation