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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

Do You Know What I Know?

Walking through the Long Island Railroad concourse, my son was perplexed by the close proximity of three chicken-themed restaurants-Chick-fil-A, Raising Cane's, and Pollo Campero-and by the fact that a shop called Gotham News mainly seemed to sell candy and bottled water. He also wanted to know why some people, as they strolled or waited, drank out of cans in brown paper bags. "Why do they use those bags?" he asked.
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fromThe Conversation
1 week ago

How does 'common knowledge' shape our individual lives and our societies? Steven Pinker has some ideas

Common knowledge—when everyone knows that everyone knows—shapes rituals, enforced silences, and social harmony, and making it explicit can disrupt social order.
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker review communication breakdown

Human communication is shaped by recursive assumptions and unacknowledged baggage, complicating exchanges and requiring reason to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
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fromHarvard Gazette
3 weeks ago

Why is your head not exploding? Steven Pinker can explain. - Harvard Gazette

Common knowledge is the mutual, iterated awareness that enables coordination, social bonds, humor, language, and collective behavior.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

The Social Functions Of Common Knowledge

Common knowledge and visible emotional expressions coordinate social behavior, stabilize groups, drive change, and are amplified and complicated by social media.
Psychology
fromHarvard Business Review
3 weeks ago

Steven Pinker on Speculation Bubbles, Super Bowl Ads, and What Leaders Need to Know About Group Psychology

Common knowledge—the awareness of what others know and that they know it—drives coordination, power dynamics, signaling, and social norms across business and society.
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fromBig Think
3 weeks ago

Why do only humans weep? The evolutionary puzzle of crying.

Tears are an involuntary, conspicuous human signal engineered to create common knowledge and to signal defeat, coordinating conflict resolution and preventing further fighting.
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