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Making Sense of Social Media

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Impact of Social Media on Cognitive Behavior Therapy

I was reading your discussion of cognitive behavioral therapy and the kinds of cognitive distortions that it tries to remedy. And it's hard not to see social media as, on some level, the best tool for amplifying these distortions we have ever devised. On social media, you are actually not even understanding their behavior in its true context because you don't see what they see. The phenomenon of information siloing leaves us all unable to accurately interpret other people's behavior.

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