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A Neurobiologist’s Guide
To Mind Manipulation
Casey Watts!


@kyloma caseywatts.com
“Intra-LA infusions of garcinol impair
training-related acetylation of histone H3
and fear memory consolidation.”My Papers
Casey’s Research
Overview
A. Cognitive Restructuring
B. Psychological Safety
Notes, links, slides, video, mailing list at:
caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
Part A
Cognitive Restructuring
1. “Opportunities”
2. How The Brain Works
3. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
1. “Opportunities”
2. How The Brain Works
3. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
“in-moment”

vs

“reflecting”
argument at work
snapping at your kids
Hangry, wet, raining, late
Stepped in a puddle
1. “Opportunities”
2. How The Brain Works
3. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Inner vs Outer Brain
LeDoux’s
Dual Pathway
Inner vs Outer Brain
Feelings
Limbic System

“inner brain”



“low road”

FAST ~ms
Feelings
Limbic System

“inner brain”



“low road”

FAST ~ms
Thoughts
Cortex

“outer brain”



“high road”

SLOW ~s
Brain as a System
An Engineer’s System
Animal Human
Autopilot Mindful
Automatic
Thoughts
Automatic

Feelings
Deliberate
Thoughts
Deliberate

Feelings
Negative

Thoughts







Negative

Feelings
How to intervene?
(hint: it is CBT)
1. “Opportunities”
2. How The Brain Works
3. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Depression
Anxiety
Bipolar disorder
Eating disorders
Schizophrenia
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Mental Illnesses
CBT is as effective as antidepressant drugs

for treating depression
Cognitive Behavioral

Therapy
Training
debugging tool
npm install constant-introspection
0. Whoop!
1. Input

2. Emotions & Thoughts
3. Response
0. Whoop!
😣


😮
❗
Whoop!
🤔“The Whoop State”
congratulate yourself
1. Input
Inputs
- stimuli from the environment
- things that happen
- people’s words/actions
Inputs
- automatic thoughts
- automatic emotions
Inputs
- current bodily state
Inputs
- current bodily state
Hangry
2a. Emotions
Expand emotional vocabulary
Emotion Processing Techniques
- Talking with close friends
- Journaling
- Reading Fiction
View emotions as data


non-judgmentally
2b. Thoughts
Maladaptive
Cognitions
or
Unhelpful
Thoughts
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
Hangry, wet, raining, late
Stepped in a puddle
Hangry, wet, raining, late
Stepped in a puddle
“Wet shoes are
THE WORST”
Hangry, wet, raining, late
Stepped in a puddle
“If I’m late, I should
just not go.”
Hangry, wet, raining, late
Stepped in a puddle
“Today sucks.”
More Adaptive Thoughts
“I am feeling
frustrated”
“This
hangriness
will go away
when I eat”
“I’ll feel great
after I dry off”
Maladaptive
Cognitions
or
Unhelpful
Thoughts
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
Print
This
0. Whoop!
1. Input

2. Emotions & Thoughts
3. Response
Other Tools
Therapist
CBT Book “Feeling Good”
Headspace (app)
Joyable (webapp)
links at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
Part B
Psychological Safety
Safe Space
anyone would feel safe in this
group


with respect to their identity etc
Safe Space
anyone would feel safe in this
group


with respect to their identity etc
PsycSafe Group
current members feel safe
PsycSafety
shared belief held by members of a team that the team is

safe for interpersonal risk-taking
- Amy Edmondson
What makes teams
perform better?
(Google)
Failed Correlations
personality types
skills
backgrounds
management style
Successful
Correlations
“group norms”
PsycSafe Traits
1. communication

“conversational turn-taking”

2. empathy

“average social sensitivity”
safe for interpersonal risk-taking
➡
~higher collective IQ
6/6 voices heard



smarter than



5/6 voices heard
Goal:
Improving PsycSafety
10 Techniques

10 Minutes
Communication
Earned Dogmatism Effect
Declare Unknowns
Frame as Learning
Acknowledge Fallibility
Model Curiosity
Earned Dogmatism Effect
“I am experienced, therefore my idea is right.”
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
Declare Unknowns
“We don’t fully understand X yet.”
Framing
“learning opportunity” not “BAD WRONG BAD”
Acknowledge Fallibility
“I make mistakes and I know it - tell me what you notice”
Model Curiosity
ask many questions
Communication
Earned Dogmatism Effect
Declare Unknowns
Frame as Learning
Acknowledge Fallibility
Model Curiosity
Empathy
Propinquity
Task vs Relationship
(PEARLS)
Validation
Depersonalize Ideas
Vulnerability
Propinquity
social closeness
Task
“[potential issues with your idea]”
Relationship
“You aren’t competent.”
PEARLS
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
PEARLS
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
Validation
recognition and acceptance of another person's [thoughts,
feelings, sensations, and behaviors] as understandable
(whether or not you agree)
1. Be Present
2. Accurate Reflection
3. Mind Reading
4. Context: their background
5. “anyone would”
6. Radical Genuineness
Validation Levels
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation
Depersonalize Ideas


“Idea A”



not “Casey’s Idea”
Vulnerability
increases trust
Empathy
Propinquity
Task vs Relationship
(PEARLS)
Validation
Depersonalize Ideas
Vulnerability
Communication
Earned Dogmatism Effect
Declare Unknowns
Frame as Learning
Acknowledge Fallibility
Model Curiosity
Empathy
Propinquity
Task vs Relationship
(PEARLS)
Validation
Depersonalize Ideas
Vulnerability
Homework
1. Bookmark
caseywatts.com/
mindmanipulation


2. Print ones in purple


3. Read (at least) 1 article
Yay!
fin
Bonus Content
Why doesn’t everyone already do CBT?
How do I get other people to do this?
Haidt’s

Elephant Model
Post-hoc

Rationalization
Haidt’s

“Moral Foundations Theory”
Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and freedom.
- Viktor Frankl
Anxiety
a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease,
typically about an imminent event or something
with an uncertain outcome.
Rumination
compulsively focused attention on the symptoms
of one's distress, and on its possible causes and
consequences, as opposed to its solutions
More about Joyable
(app)
Social Sensitivity
“Reading the Mind in the Eyes”
link at: caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation

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