Heller Center Fall 2022 Fellow: Dr. Mark Miller

Join us as Dr. Mark Miller shares his work tittled: "What do Social Media and Gaslighting have in common?"

What the neuroscience of predictive processing teaches us about communication that makes us thrive vs despair. Social media is implicated today in an array of mental health concerns today. In this talk, Dr. Mark Miller will discuss the cognitive mechanisms behind why we find it so hard to stop engaging with these platforms when things obviously begin to deteriorate for us, as well as show how some social media platforms represent highly effective ways of warping our model of the world- which in turn leads to the mental health challenges we see today. This same cognitive framework will also be applied to elucidate some of the devastating effects of “gaslighting” and other forms of misinformation.

This event is Co-sponsored by Department of Communication at UCCS.
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