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Science/Person-centered massage therapy and touch
A proponent of science in Massage Therapy
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2/ 🧠 Chronic pain is more than a sensory perception—it’s an affective state that disrupts behavior, motivation, and mood

But internal states like pain are hard to observe directly

We tackled this by decoding spontaneous behavior + brain activity in mice
January 8, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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This matters for understanding misinformation and polarization. If partisan endorsement starts as social signaling, it may gradually become genuine belief through repetition and self-perception.

What begins as fitting in may end as sincere conviction.

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January 6, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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I think a lot about accuracy-motivated reasoning and understanding how team social norms can move away from groupthink and toward valuing divergent perspectives and evidence-evaluation cycles

e.g., the scientific norms work of @jayvanbavel.bsky.social

www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Breaking Groupthink: Why Scientific Identity and Norms Mitigate Ideological Epistemology
PDF | On Jan 2, 2020, Jay J. Van Bavel and others published Breaking Groupthink: Why Scientific Identity and Norms Mitigate Ideological Epistemology | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
www.researchgate.net
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM