What-if thinking and cognitive cost

Strap in guys, we’re taking a deep dive into the realm of want, desire, and interoception. This week on Schauer Thoughts the mind is taking a back seat to the bodies inner-workings and process - we’ll be giving a voice to the beautiful being that gives us a voice. I hope you enjoy listening to me or at least yourself. 

Link to my Substack post:

How To Be The Type of Person Who Loves Reading and Learning Substack Post - https://substack.com/home/post/p-179871707 

Make sure to check out the wonderful researcher who inspired this episode:

Dr. Nai’a on Tiktok

https://www.tiktok.com/@naia_papaia/video/7611265785910103310?_r=1&_t=ZT-94GFOua6P4X 

Resources:

Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions - Temple Grandin

Enshitification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It - Cory Doctorow

This Is What It Sounds Like - Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas

Companies Are Desperately Seeking ‘Storytellers’ 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-are-desperately-seeking-storytellers-7b79f54e?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqemQvxYgchwXwkzI9btEgTEnCSu86tEActGU6LXgOMv_Hmjc9gknGlTvT3KbvI%3D&gaa_ts=69a75f83&gaa_sig=k0Vp1rLUO3Z7LSgPcCMAOXqD3Xwkwt6oGQR-mZgHdTaYRvYA6SwJR71JTTOmOpyQN3FLt-RNuAiAtTU1_snLAQ%3D%3D 

Why the Polyvagal Theory is Untenable

https://www.clinicalneuropsychiatry.org/download/why-the-polyvagal-theory-is-untenable-an-international-expert-evaluation-of-the-polyvagal-theory-and-commentary-upon-porges-s-w-2025-polyvagal-theory-current-status-clinical-applications-and/ 

A Clinician’s Perspective on the Polyvagal Controversy

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/well-connected/202602/a-clinicians-perspective-on-the-polyvagal-controversy 

When Looking ‘Hot’ Means Not Feeling Cold: Evidence that Self-Objectification Inhibits Feelings of Being Cold

https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso.12489 

Objects Do Not Suffer: An Impact on Mechanistic Dehumanization on Perceptions of Women’s Suffering and Lack of Justice in Domestic Assault

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37815050/ 

The psychological mechanism of self-objectification: the interaction between sociocultural pressures and self-esteem

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12517067/ 

Body image disturbance, interoceptive sensibility and the body schema across female adulthood: a pre-registered study

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1285216/full 

Interoception: A Multi-Sensory Foundation of Participation in Daily Life

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9220286/

Why You Do the Things You Do 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-more-affectively/202512/why-you-do-the-things-you-do

The Affective Side of Interoception 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-more-affectively/202512/the-affective-side-of-interoception

The Affective Side of Certainty

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-more-affectively/202512/the-affective-side-of-certainty/amp

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