Dr. Jamil Zaki

Here's a far out example. I mean, I love this train of thought, so I'm gonna try to take it to a logical conclusion that would never actually occur in real life. But a great way to generate more accurate and hopeful skepticism, and by hopeful skepticism, I mean skepticism as we've described, a scientific mindset, a scientific perspective, and a curiosity, a hunger for information.

Here's a far out example. I mean, I love this train of thought, so I'm gonna try to take it to a logical conclusion that would never actually occur in real life. But a great way to generate more accurate and hopeful skepticism, and by hopeful skepticism, I mean skepticism as we've described, a scientific mindset, a scientific perspective, and a curiosity, a hunger for information.

And then the hopeful piece, I simply mean skepticism that begins with the understanding that our defaults are often too negative. So that I'm going to be open and I'm going to realize that my gut instinct is probably leading me towards the negative and can be challenged, that I don't have to listen to it all the time.

And then the hopeful piece, I simply mean skepticism that begins with the understanding that our defaults are often too negative. So that I'm going to be open and I'm going to realize that my gut instinct is probably leading me towards the negative and can be challenged, that I don't have to listen to it all the time.

And then the hopeful piece, I simply mean skepticism that begins with the understanding that our defaults are often too negative. So that I'm going to be open and I'm going to realize that my gut instinct is probably leading me towards the negative and can be challenged, that I don't have to listen to it all the time.

So just as a working definition, I think that what I would want in a social media feed would be for it to have more data. If you could compel every person on earth to post to social media about what they're doing today, about what they're thinking, about what they want, about their values, right? If you could compel each, of course, that's dystopic in many ways, but just as a thought experiment.

So just as a working definition, I think that what I would want in a social media feed would be for it to have more data. If you could compel every person on earth to post to social media about what they're doing today, about what they're thinking, about what they want, about their values, right? If you could compel each, of course, that's dystopic in many ways, but just as a thought experiment.

So just as a working definition, I think that what I would want in a social media feed would be for it to have more data. If you could compel every person on earth to post to social media about what they're doing today, about what they're thinking, about what they want, about their values, right? If you could compel each, of course, that's dystopic in many ways, but just as a thought experiment.

And then People's Feed was a representative sample of real people on the planet, real people and people who over time, as I scroll through my Statue of Liberty now, I see what people are really like. I see the people who are extreme and negative and toxic, but I also see a grandmother who's driving her grandkids to hockey practice. I see a nurse who's coming in to help an elderly patient.

And then People's Feed was a representative sample of real people on the planet, real people and people who over time, as I scroll through my Statue of Liberty now, I see what people are really like. I see the people who are extreme and negative and toxic, but I also see a grandmother who's driving her grandkids to hockey practice. I see a nurse who's coming in to help an elderly patient.

And then People's Feed was a representative sample of real people on the planet, real people and people who over time, as I scroll through my Statue of Liberty now, I see what people are really like. I see the people who are extreme and negative and toxic, but I also see a grandmother who's driving her grandkids to hockey practice. I see a nurse who's coming in to help an elderly patient.

I see somebody who's made an unlikely connection with somebody who they disagree with. A veridical, accurate feed, I think, would drive hopeful skepticism. And that's, again, one of the things that has struck me most over the last few years of doing this research is that we stereotype hope and positivity, as you were saying earlier, as kind of dim, naive, a rose-colored pair of glasses, right?

I see somebody who's made an unlikely connection with somebody who they disagree with. A veridical, accurate feed, I think, would drive hopeful skepticism. And that's, again, one of the things that has struck me most over the last few years of doing this research is that we stereotype hope and positivity, as you were saying earlier, as kind of dim, naive, a rose-colored pair of glasses, right?

I see somebody who's made an unlikely connection with somebody who they disagree with. A veridical, accurate feed, I think, would drive hopeful skepticism. And that's, again, one of the things that has struck me most over the last few years of doing this research is that we stereotype hope and positivity, as you were saying earlier, as kind of dim, naive, a rose-colored pair of glasses, right?

But in fact, I think what the data show us is that we're all wearing a pair of soot-colored glasses all the time. And actually, the best way to make people more hopeful is to ask them to look more carefully, not to look away, but look towards. in a more accurate and open fashion. And there's one version of this that we've tried at Stanford in our own backyard.

But in fact, I think what the data show us is that we're all wearing a pair of soot-colored glasses all the time. And actually, the best way to make people more hopeful is to ask them to look more carefully, not to look away, but look towards. in a more accurate and open fashion. And there's one version of this that we've tried at Stanford in our own backyard.

But in fact, I think what the data show us is that we're all wearing a pair of soot-colored glasses all the time. And actually, the best way to make people more hopeful is to ask them to look more carefully, not to look away, but look towards. in a more accurate and open fashion. And there's one version of this that we've tried at Stanford in our own backyard.

So my lab and I, we've for years been surveying as many Stanford undergraduates as we can about their social health. So how connected are they? How mentally healthy are they? A couple of years ago, we asked thousands of undergraduates to describe both themselves and the average Stanford student on a number of dimensions. For instance, how empathic are you?

So my lab and I, we've for years been surveying as many Stanford undergraduates as we can about their social health. So how connected are they? How mentally healthy are they? A couple of years ago, we asked thousands of undergraduates to describe both themselves and the average Stanford student on a number of dimensions. For instance, how empathic are you?

So my lab and I, we've for years been surveying as many Stanford undergraduates as we can about their social health. So how connected are they? How mentally healthy are they? A couple of years ago, we asked thousands of undergraduates to describe both themselves and the average Stanford student on a number of dimensions. For instance, how empathic are you?