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<\/p>About\u00a0Lloyd Stires<\/strong>\n

I am a retired Professor of Psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where I taught courses in social psychology, environmental psychology and the mass media. I formerly hosted a blues and jazz radio program on WIUP-FM in Indiana, PA. I live in Pittsburgh with my life partner Tina and our dogs, Django and Francesca.<\/p>\n

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**About This Blog<\/strong><\/p>\n**
**I\u2019ve been blogging since 2012. \u00a0Older Thinking Slowly posts can be found** **at this location.<\/a><\/p>\n**
The\u00a0title is inspired by Daniel Kahneman\u2019s 2011 book, Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/a><\/em>. In it, Kahneman presents the theory, well accepted in social psychology, that our thought processes can be described as if they are organized into two systems. System 1 is automatic, effortless and outside our awareness. It consists of innate responses to external stimuli and well-learned patterns of behavior. It is likely to make errors, such as overreacting to our fears. System 2 is deliberate and effortful. It is what we recognize as the content of our consciousness. While System 2 can also make errors, careful thought offers our best hope of responding rationally to an increasingly difficult environment.<\/p>\n
We live in a country in which a major-party candidate for President has implied that allowing gay people to have sex will make people want to have sex with animals<\/a>. It is hoped that this blog will encourage more rational thought. Specifically, I hope to apply the best available knowledge from the physical and social sciences to the solution of our many social and political problems. And have a good time doing it.<\/p>\n
Since I\u2019m a social psychologist, many of my examples will come from that field. However, I will touch on many other fields, including sociology, economics, political science, communications media and the environmental sciences. Since no one can be an expert in all these areas, I hope you\u2019ll bear with me and correct me when I\u2019m wrong.<\/p>\n
***The posts are intended for general audiences, so if you find them either too technical or too simplistic, please let me know.<\/p>\n***
***Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"***
About\u00a0Lloyd Stires I am a retired Professor of Psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where I taught courses in social psychology, environmental psychology and the mass media. I formerly hosted a blues and jazz radio program on WIUP-FM in Indiana, PA. I live in Pittsburgh with my life partner Tina and our dogs, Django and … Continue reading About<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6FkJj-11","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Django<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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**About This Blog<\/strong><\/p>\n**
**I\u2019ve been blogging since 2012. \u00a0Older Thinking Slowly posts can be found** **at this location.<\/a><\/p>\n**
The\u00a0title is inspired by Daniel Kahneman\u2019s 2011 book, Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/a><\/em>. In it, Kahneman presents the theory, well accepted in social psychology, that our thought processes can be described as if they are organized into two systems. System 1 is automatic, effortless and outside our awareness. It consists of innate responses to external stimuli and well-learned patterns of behavior. It is likely to make errors, such as overreacting to our fears. System 2 is deliberate and effortful. It is what we recognize as the content of our consciousness. While System 2 can also make errors, careful thought offers our best hope of responding rationally to an increasingly difficult environment.<\/p>\n
We live in a country in which a major-party candidate for President has implied that allowing gay people to have sex will make people want to have sex with animals<\/a>. It is hoped that this blog will encourage more rational thought. Specifically, I hope to apply the best available knowledge from the physical and social sciences to the solution of our many social and political problems. And have a good time doing it.<\/p>\n
Since I\u2019m a social psychologist, many of my examples will come from that field. However, I will touch on many other fields, including sociology, economics, political science, communications media and the environmental sciences. Since no one can be an expert in all these areas, I hope you\u2019ll bear with me and correct me when I\u2019m wrong.<\/p>\n
***The posts are intended for general audiences, so if you find them either too technical or too simplistic, please let me know.<\/p>\n***
***Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"***
About\u00a0Lloyd Stires I am a retired Professor of Psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where I taught courses in social psychology, environmental psychology and the mass media. I formerly hosted a blues and jazz radio program on WIUP-FM in Indiana, PA. I live in Pittsburgh with my life partner Tina and our dogs, Django and … Continue reading About<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6FkJj-11","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}