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==11: OCT 6==
  
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===Some questions I'm considering for a student "engagement" survey===
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===Assigned===
  
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:*Do you feel there is less participation in "hybrid" courses such as ours vs. similar traditional face-to-face courses?
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:*Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality" (17)
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:*Do you like the option of turning your video off?
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:*Writing exercise: How WEIRD is Morality?  
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:*Why do you like the option of turning your video off?
 
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:*Do you turn video on in break out rooms?
 
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:*Would it helpful to turn video on during times when questions or discussion are solicited from the whole class?
 
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:*Would you like me to make more use of Zoom options to express agreement, etc?
 
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:*Are there other things I could do or we could do to improve the course experience in any way?
 
  
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:*Please take a few minutes now (or later today) to visit the Tell Me form and make some suggestions for the survey.
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===Brief Survey on Student Engagement in Hybrid course delivery===
  
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===Assigned Reading===
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:*Please take the following anonymous [https://gonzaga.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3I98g1ecsTe59ZP survey].
  
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:*Kessler, The End of Overeating, Chs 1-9  pp. 3-45
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===Final Stage of Sapolsky Writing Assignment===
  
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===Kessler, The End of Overeating, Chs 1-9  pp. 3-45===
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:*'''Stage 4''': Back-evaluation: After you receive your peer comments and my evaluation, take a few minutes to fill out this quick "back evaluation" rating form: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgKCYITDTSOOHcvC3TAVNK-EZDsP4jiiyPj-7jdpRoNUsLPA/viewform?usp=sf_link].  '''Fill out the form for each reviewer, but not Alfino.'''  Up to 10 points, in Points.
  
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:*Some comments about approaching "unhealthy eating patterns" (expand list), some baseline data, and Kessler's basic theory.
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::*Back evaluations are due '''Thursday, October 8, 11:59pm'''.
  
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===Some samples from Henrich's, "The Weirdest People on Earth"===
  
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:*obesity trend of the 1980s.  by late 80s 1/3 of pop bt. 20 and 74 overweight. (2017: 42.4% obese (note: not just overweight).   J
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:*p. 25: "Who Am I?" task.  Show charts
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:*p. 28: sociocentric vs. individualistic
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:*p. 34: guilt vs. shame
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:*p. 44: impersonal honesty research (recall Ariely).
  
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:*Historic comparisons:  1960-2000, average weight of women in their 20s goes from 128 to 157.  Also other deciles.  Data also revealed that some people were gaining a lot more than the average. 
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===Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality"===
  
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====WEIRD Morality====
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:*WEIRD morality is the morality of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic cultures
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::*just as likely to be bothered by taboo violations, but more likely to set aside feelings of disgust and allow violations
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::*only group with majority allowing chicken story violation.
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::*"the weirder you are the more likely you are to see the world in terms of separate objects, rather than relationships"  "sociocentric" moralities vs. individualistic moralities; Enlightenment moralities of Kant and Mill are rationalist, individualist, and universalist. 
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::*survey data on East/West differences in sentence completion: "I am..."
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::*framed-line task 97
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:*Kantian and Millian ethical thought is rationalist, rule based, and universalist.  Just the ethical theory you would expect from the culture. 
  
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:*obesity is the result of eating too much food.  Confusing to separate metabolism, etc.  People underreport consumption. Studies to support claims.  P.8 
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====A 3 channel moral matrix====
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:*Schweder's anthropology: ethics of autonomy, community, divinity 99-100 - gloss each...
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::*claims Schweder's theory predicts responses on taboo violation tests, is descriptively accurate.
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::*ethic of divinity: body as temple vs. playground
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::*vertical dimension to values.  explains reactions to flag desecration, piss Christ, thought exp: desecration of liberal icons.  (Note connection to contemporary conflicts, such as the Charlie Hebdot massacre.)
  
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:*homeostasis: tendency of body systems to maintain bodily states within a particular range of variation.  Communication occurs throughout the body to this end. But homeostasis can’t explain weight gain. Homeostasic system can be overwhelmed by the “reward system”.  Anticipations of reward motivate exertion.  Some animal studies show direct stimulation of reward seeking behavior.  Even to cross electrified floor.   
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====Making Sense of Moral/Cultural Difference====
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:*'''Haidt's Bhubaneswar experience''': diverse (intense) continua of moral values related to purity. (opposite of disgust). Confusing at first, but notice that he started to like his hosts (elephant) and then started to think about how their values might work.  Stop and think about how a mind might create this.   Detail about airline passenger.
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:*Theorizing with Paul Rozin on the right model for thinking about moral foundations: "Our theory, in brief" (103)
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:*American politics often about sense of "sacrilege", not just about defining rights (autonomy).  Not just harm, but types of moral disgust.
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:*'''Stepping out of the Matrix''': H's metaphor for seeing his own cultural moral values as more "contingent" than before, when it felt like the natural advocacy of what seem true and right.  Reports growing self awareness of liberal orientation of intellectual culture in relation to Shweder's view.  Social conservatives made more sense to him after studying in India.
  
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:*Can some kinds of food stimulate us to keep eating?
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===Small Group Discussion===
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:*Discussion questions:
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::*Does it make sense to talk about "stepping out of a matrix"? Is this a temporary thing?  What value might it have in your experience?
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::*Do you have a parallel story to Haidt's? (Mention travel experiences.)
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:*palatability - def.  a food with an agreeable taste, but in food science - a food that motivates more consumption.  [Let's think about the definition a bit: Does it have to be connected to overconsumption?]
 
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:*palatable foods engage sugar, salt, and fat, but also sensory cues.  Research (13) on combined effects of sugar and fat.  Underlies many palatable features of food.  Combinations of fat and sugar chosen over other mixes.  Can make food hyperpalatable.  [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191105104436.htm Example] of "hyper-palatability" in industry and as a research concept in food science.
 
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:*15: research showing that consumption of SFS optimized foods increases further consumption.  (Very consequential, if true!)
 
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:*Sclafani research.  Neat fruit-loop lab detail.  Just chillin' with his rats.:  feeding rats a supermarket sample of palatable food makes them obese.
 
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:*Some palatability research not in the reading:
 
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::*[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5332909/ Can the Palatability of Healthy, Satiety-Promoting Foods Increase with Repeated Exposure during Weight Loss?]
 
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:*examples of foods that layer S F and S. (Gordy's lemon chicken, much like p. 20 "Chicken Pot Stickers")
 
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:* reports from food execs confirming that industrial food design focuses on highly stimulating and palatable foods.  Common popular restaurant foods described in terms of stacking fat on fat on sugar on salt on fat, ... etc.  fat with a little lettuce!
 
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:*critical of “set point theory” more interested in version he calls “settling point” theory.  A kind of equilibrium between appetite (which both a drive to eat and capacity to be satisfied and expenditure - physical work and body that burns calories effectively.  Constant access to highly palatable foods drives up '''settling point'''.    (Kind of acknowledges that there is wide variation in the hold (capture) of high SFS foods. 
 
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:*p. 25: Discussion with other people who find weight control challenging.  note descriptions.  Important qualification: Food cravings are not unique to overweight people.  Significance of this section, I think: Most of you probably don't have similar reactions.  His point. 
 
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:*rewarding foods are reinforcing.  Reinforcing measured by willingness to work for substance and whether other stimuli can become associated with it. (Mention Neurogastronomy coming later to show how this works.)
 
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:*food can be an effective reward even in the absence of hunger.  Animal studies to show this. 
 
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:* “conditioned place paradigm”. — tendency to prefer the location in which a reward was experience. 
 
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:*Neural account of high SFS / palatable foods.  Neuron encodes when it fires more often from a stimuli.  Complex patterns can be encoded from food experience. 
 
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:* Taste is predominant.  “Orosensory self-stimulation”.  Opioid circuitry stimulated by food.  P. 37: mechanisms of the reward system.  Imp of nucleus accumbens. 
 
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:* Some evidence (Wooley p. 38) that highly palatable foods interfere with or override taste specific satiety (a mechanism that should reduce the reward experience of food at margins), which predicts that we will get tired of a single taste more quickly than if other tastes are present.  Stimulation of the opioid circuits in animals overrode boredom with single taste.
 

Latest revision as of 19:51, 6 October 2020

11: OCT 6

Assigned

  • Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality" (17)
  • Writing exercise: How WEIRD is Morality?

Brief Survey on Student Engagement in Hybrid course delivery

  • Please take the following anonymous survey.

Final Stage of Sapolsky Writing Assignment

  • Stage 4: Back-evaluation: After you receive your peer comments and my evaluation, take a few minutes to fill out this quick "back evaluation" rating form: [1]. Fill out the form for each reviewer, but not Alfino. Up to 10 points, in Points.
  • Back evaluations are due Thursday, October 8, 11:59pm.

Some samples from Henrich's, "The Weirdest People on Earth"

  • p. 25: "Who Am I?" task. Show charts
  • p. 28: sociocentric vs. individualistic
  • p. 34: guilt vs. shame
  • p. 44: impersonal honesty research (recall Ariely).

Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality"

WEIRD Morality

  • WEIRD morality is the morality of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic cultures
  • just as likely to be bothered by taboo violations, but more likely to set aside feelings of disgust and allow violations
  • only group with majority allowing chicken story violation.
  • "the weirder you are the more likely you are to see the world in terms of separate objects, rather than relationships" "sociocentric" moralities vs. individualistic moralities; Enlightenment moralities of Kant and Mill are rationalist, individualist, and universalist.
  • survey data on East/West differences in sentence completion: "I am..."
  • framed-line task 97
  • Kantian and Millian ethical thought is rationalist, rule based, and universalist. Just the ethical theory you would expect from the culture.

A 3 channel moral matrix

  • Schweder's anthropology: ethics of autonomy, community, divinity 99-100 - gloss each...
  • claims Schweder's theory predicts responses on taboo violation tests, is descriptively accurate.
  • ethic of divinity: body as temple vs. playground
  • vertical dimension to values. explains reactions to flag desecration, piss Christ, thought exp: desecration of liberal icons. (Note connection to contemporary conflicts, such as the Charlie Hebdot massacre.)

Making Sense of Moral/Cultural Difference

  • Haidt's Bhubaneswar experience: diverse (intense) continua of moral values related to purity. (opposite of disgust). Confusing at first, but notice that he started to like his hosts (elephant) and then started to think about how their values might work. Stop and think about how a mind might create this. Detail about airline passenger.
  • Theorizing with Paul Rozin on the right model for thinking about moral foundations: "Our theory, in brief" (103)
  • American politics often about sense of "sacrilege", not just about defining rights (autonomy). Not just harm, but types of moral disgust.
  • Stepping out of the Matrix: H's metaphor for seeing his own cultural moral values as more "contingent" than before, when it felt like the natural advocacy of what seem true and right. Reports growing self awareness of liberal orientation of intellectual culture in relation to Shweder's view. Social conservatives made more sense to him after studying in India.

Small Group Discussion

  • Discussion questions:
  • Does it make sense to talk about "stepping out of a matrix"? Is this a temporary thing? What value might it have in your experience?
  • Do you have a parallel story to Haidt's? (Mention travel experiences.)
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