"You know, SOMEONE should do a study on how people [behavior or interaction that has already been intensely scrutinized in dozens of studies with thousands of subjects for decades].
"My theory is [simplistic interpretation that was debunked in the 1960s]!
"Therefore we should all try to [personal or social intervention that was unsuccessfully implemented from 1947 to 1977 until it was finally shown to be useless and/or harmful]!"
“Country folk did better, on average, than people from cities. And among city-dwellers, those from cities with more chaotic street networks such as those in the older parts of European cities did better than those from cities like Chicago, where the streets form a regular grid, perhaps because residents of grid cities don’t need to build such complex mental maps.”
Jestem osobą podatna na uzależnienia oraz przyzwyczajenia. Kiedyś niestety się samookaleczalam i robilam to codziennie, obecnie nie robię tego już z dobrych 10 lat. Jestem z tego dumna, bo nawet mnie nie kręci do tego. A mogło być różnie. #zdrowiepsychiczne#psychology
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There has been a lot of talk lately in tech circles and on YouTube about
how to get out of receiving AI-generated suggestions when you do a web
search -- which is now increasingly the default on Google.
While sometimes convenient, AI suggestions have 3 main problems:
a) They are often wrong,
b) They make you scroll way down the page to see the actual websites, &
c) They use all the earth's websites as their database, thereby stealing
everyone's content and rendering visiting the actual content creator
websites mute (unless AI answers wrong).
Here are some ways to turn off the AI in web search:
https://searx.tuxcloud.net/search -- This site is part of a network
of privately hosted sites using the same open-source search software. I
notice that you can not do a site-specific search like in Google or
DuckDuckGo ("site:microsoft.com Outlook questions"). See also https://searx.space/ for a list of other search URLs in the network.
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Rating scales institutionalise a network of logical errors and conceptual problems in research practices: A rigorous analysis showing ways to tackle psychology’s crises
J Uher, 2022 Front. Psychol
"The problem landscape [...] centres on the failed distinction between psychology’s study phenomena (e.g., experiences, everyday constructs) and the means of their exploration (e.g., terms, data, scientific constructs)—psychologists’ cardinal error."
In her book #AttentionSpan, Gloria Mark, PhD dedicates a chapter to the discussion of free will.
Though it seems to me a tangent, I appreciate the implication that "taking control of our attention" isn't entirely a matter of choice. Whatever TF choice is.
I mean, choice is supposedly the thing that controls attention, but… elaboration fades to infinity #nonfiction#psychology#allostasis
In a groundbreaking study from 2017, Chatard et al found social comparison to be subliminal.
In the study women were shown images of thin women or heavy women at sub-conscious threshold viewing times of less than 20 milliseconds.
Even when they consciously didn’t register seeing them and weren’t able to make the comparison, the study found feeling good or bad about their bodies still consistently affected.
It means we can’t educate ourselves away from this.
We can of course alleviate some of the problems that follow, and we should. Social media provides way too many supermodel-shapes to push those buttons teenagers still don’t know how to react to.
And it is important for educators also to try and not ”talk some sense into the kids”, but promote healthy reactions to the inevitable.
How should numeric probabilities be translated into words? Maybe they shouldn't be.
"Words of estimative probability" wreak havoc in high-stakes communication like #intelligenceCommunity assessments and briefings, in part because intelligence and defense institutions map numbers to different words (!) — see Amelia Kahn's forthcoming work at ameliakahn.wordpress.com.
New blog post! I wrote about making art as emotion regulation. I connect it to expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal, from James Gross's work.