Indeed, +ve does not always mean good and -ve does not always mean bad. Like the +ve +ve loop of bulbospongiosus tumescence vs the -ve +ve loop of simiar constricted flows in IIH.
These loops operate from a molecular level up to societal. A major reason behind Brexit was +ve and -ve feedback loops relating to selective migration.
As a therapist working with clients who have high levels of anxiety, the concept of the positive feedback loop and the smoke detector principal has been immensely helpful! Thank you so much for your work.
Yes, positive feedback is everywhere in social psychology but I don’t know of an article reviewing all the examples. From marital squabbles to wars, positive feedback escalates aggression. Confirmation bias increases confidence in existing beliefs with every new bit of information. Romantic love snowballs wonderfully. And as you note, beliefs that the outgroup is bad are confirmed and amplified by every interaction. Ideas well worth pursuing.
I wonder if the phenomenon of positive-feedback or self-reinforcing cycle also applies at the level of social psychology. It seems as though polarization is working that way these days.
Dr. Nesse, My name is David Fresco, and I am a faculty colleague of Jim Abelson. Pretty sure we have never met before. But I have followed your work for decades. I am also working on a R01 with scholars at UA right now. Another retiree to Tucson, Tom Borkovec, has been a mentor of sorts earlier in my career. My UA main colleague is Jessica Andrews Hanna. But John Allen is on it, and their new computational neuroscience faculty member Ari Kahn, a recent postdoctoral of Nathaniel Daw is a co-I with us. Lots of congruent themes of this R01 to your posting today.
Thanks so much for getting in touch! I will move back to Ann Arbor in March and hope we can talk. But before then, let’s email, I am very interested in your project.
Indeed, +ve does not always mean good and -ve does not always mean bad. Like the +ve +ve loop of bulbospongiosus tumescence vs the -ve +ve loop of simiar constricted flows in IIH.
These loops operate from a molecular level up to societal. A major reason behind Brexit was +ve and -ve feedback loops relating to selective migration.
Yes, and most diseases are products of dysregulated control systems, but those are hardly studied.
As a therapist working with clients who have high levels of anxiety, the concept of the positive feedback loop and the smoke detector principal has been immensely helpful! Thank you so much for your work.
It is such a simple application of signal detection theory, but there is still much to do to apply it across the full range of medicine.
Yes, positive feedback is everywhere in social psychology but I don’t know of an article reviewing all the examples. From marital squabbles to wars, positive feedback escalates aggression. Confirmation bias increases confidence in existing beliefs with every new bit of information. Romantic love snowballs wonderfully. And as you note, beliefs that the outgroup is bad are confirmed and amplified by every interaction. Ideas well worth pursuing.
I wonder if the phenomenon of positive-feedback or self-reinforcing cycle also applies at the level of social psychology. It seems as though polarization is working that way these days.
Dr. Nesse, My name is David Fresco, and I am a faculty colleague of Jim Abelson. Pretty sure we have never met before. But I have followed your work for decades. I am also working on a R01 with scholars at UA right now. Another retiree to Tucson, Tom Borkovec, has been a mentor of sorts earlier in my career. My UA main colleague is Jessica Andrews Hanna. But John Allen is on it, and their new computational neuroscience faculty member Ari Kahn, a recent postdoctoral of Nathaniel Daw is a co-I with us. Lots of congruent themes of this R01 to your posting today.
Cheers!
Dave
fresco@umich.edu
Thanks so much for getting in touch! I will move back to Ann Arbor in March and hope we can talk. But before then, let’s email, I am very interested in your project.