User:Noamnums

Subjects of interest:

Distortions of decision making (individual / in groups): - paralectics (misunderstanding in dialogues) - autocatalysis (self reinforcing growth/decline) - psychologizing (of non-psychological phenomena) - heuristics and biases (positive and negative) - groupthink (collective mood and risky behavior) - dominance/leadership of introverts/extraverts

Systemic developments in society (large scale and long term): - corporate welfare state - amalgams of market and state - public private partnerships - institutional evolution - global power shifts - world wide knowledge exchange/transfer

Relationship between individual and society (mid level): - lasting effects of World War II on science - impact of economic crises on world views - collective mood swings (in organizations) - survival rate of (anti-)cyclical companies - denial of accurate but unwanted predictions - pattern recognition by critics/contrarians