What the classic Trolley Problem can teach us about the moral issues around self-driving cars. — In a previous article, we saw that we need to think hard about the moral implications of the ever-faster evolution of artificially intelligent chatbots, like ChatGPT. However, bots are not likely to kill people in a conversation — even though we need to be careful with putting bots on emergency…

Where do we draw a line in the sand when it comes to creating morally ambiguous AI solutions? — One of the conundrums we will face more and more is the programming of Artificial Intelligence. …

Organizations are challenged on their moral compass by customers and employees alike. — Modern organizations feel a growing need to satisfy more than just the monetary gains of owners, stakeholders, and employees. In general, people are becoming more aware of aspects like gender equality, racial equality, environmental footprints, animal rights, et cetera. This entails the need for a moral compass in an organization.

Business coaches would be smart to borrow from sports to create high-performance teams. — In a previous article, I talked about Positive Psychology — in which a therapist tries to lift someone up from a zero-base level into the positive. If you take the positive even further upwards, you enter the realm of high performance. One of the fields interested in high performance is…

The term Positive Psychology is often misunderstood, it’s not about being positive all the time. Being forced to always think positively is what we call Toxic Positivity. — In my previous articles, I’ve been talking about psychological therapy. Therapy is usually focused on helping people overcome problems. On a positive note — pun intended — there’s this thing called Positive Psychology. …

Is it worth spending valuable time and money on therapy to improve your mental health? — Talking about different forms of therapy almost makes you forget one very important question that the scientific inquisitive mind should be asking — does therapy even work? Ever since the days of Freud, the number of therapies has skyrocketed. About 5% of the therapists describe themselves as psychodynamic — thus…

Once mastered, this could be the most powerful tool in your toolbox. — The fact that cognitive behavioral therapy is utilized in cases of severe depression and borderline personality disorder, tells us of its powerfulness. This is a good reason to include Socratic Questioning in your bag of tricks. Around the same time that Albert Ellis lost interest in psychodynamic therapy, American psychiatrist…

What we can learn from a successful and much-used form of cognitive therapy. — The basic idea behind cognitive therapy is that rational thoughts of the client can overcome their irrational beliefs. Therapists will “force” clients to think from different angles by asking many questions or by stating observations that contradict the beliefs of the client. American psychologist Albert Ellis (1913–2007) fell out of…

Immediate action is preferred in order to change behavior and thoughts sooner rather than later. — Au contraire to the psychodynamic approach, behavioral and cognitive therapies focus on the observable symptoms a client displays, rather than on the supposedly underlying issues that cause certain symptoms. Let’s say when you get gloomy, you start to eat too much. A psychodynamic therapist would try and find out why…