@grimalkina oh what an interesting paper. I look forward to reading it when I have institutional access again. Just the abstract has me reflecting on my own cynicism!

@grimalkina this is amazing on several levels.

@grimalkina Read nothing but the abstract so far — but immediately thinking of some of my own bits of personal growth in years past that were specifically putting boundaries on my cynicism :-)

@grimalkina "about to" 😂 😂

I only skimmed the abstract, but if you'd told me you wrote it I wouldn't have doubted you for a moment.

@grimalkina *looks around at work*

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
I mean, at some point, maybe the problem is that we constantly exist in a context where cynicism is a normal, healthy, natural reaction to what we're seeing 🤣 🤣 😭

@grimalkina This certainly seems to align with my anecdotal experience. I sometimes wonder if people may adopt a cynical posture in order to seem more knowledgeable to peers (sort of to exploit this perception that cynicism correlates to expertise, though maybe not consciously).

In any case, cynicism coupled with ignorance frustrates me greatly, because it often stands in the way of making things better; people are convinced, without evidence, that things can't get better and it's a waste of time to try. I think this is at work in a lot of spheres, including both tech and politics.

@grimalkina I might pull out this article in my work. The joys of being able to actually cite research.

@grimalkina Cynicism bias is SO REAL!The one really terrible review I got of my book was a mansplaining/Dunning-Kruger/cynicism trifecta from someone who, shall we say, had form. As a friend of mine put it, “I don’t think that telling the infrastructure expert and engineering professor that she’s wrong and everything has to be terrible forever is quite the flex you think it is.”

posting the anti cynicism research on this, the cynicism platform 🎁😜