#TIL that #StockholmSyndrome was invented by #police and a bad psychologist to discredit a female hostage who didn't trust the cops after they did nothing to protect the captive employees during a bank heist.
Her "crime" was trying to negotiate with the criminals to protect her own life, while the police and the state preferred having dead hostages over closing any deal with the thieves.
#introduction: Hi I’m Farah. I’m originally from a small South Asian country; now live in Iowa, USA. I talk about my hobbies, #books, #gaming, #sciencefiction and #StarTrek and other isssues like #mentalheaIth#science#psychology. Occasionally I’ll talk about #USpolitics. I complain about the world a lot. I am pathologically anxious and make jokes to compensate, they aren’t always funny. Trying to connect with people because it’s hard to make friends in real life. Peace! 🖖🏼
Obligatory #psychology post about motivation for new years resolutions, some stuff I've learned both as a psych researcher and this year as a person trying to stay committed to very complex rehab!
when we say set attainable goals WE MEAN IT! Cut the goal in half. Ambition is the mind-killer. Attainable is the recursive motivation feeder.
mindful tracking means make it easy for yourself to see your effort, not fixate on outcomes
we overestimate the cost of lapse, remind yourself of this
ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida will not allow public school students to take Advanced Placement psychology because the course includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, topics forbidden by the state, the College Board said Thursday. That could mean that a week before school starts in many districts, about 5,000...
Racial discrimination increases the activity of brain regions, such as the prefrontal cortex, involved in regulating emotions. The more brain energy a person uses to suppress, control or manage their feelings, the more energy they take away from the rest of the body.
Over time, and without prolonged periods of rest, relief and restoration, this can lead to other #health problems.
The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most famous and compelling psychological studies of all time, told us a tantalizingly simple story about human nature....
"There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks," Ohls said. "Maybe the head man thinks his hands are clean but somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut from under them and had to sell out for nickels, decent people lost their jobs, stocks got rigged on the market, proxies got bought up like a pennyweight of old gold, and the five per centers and the big law firms got paid hundred-grand fees for beating some law the people wanted but the rich guys didn't, on account of it cut into their profits. Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system. Maybe it's the best we can get, but it still ain't any Ivory Soap deal."
Using an inflation calculator, I found the $100 million in 1953 is worth just over $1 billion in today's dollar, so Chandler's character Ohls is talking about billionaires.
Today, Forbest listed the 400 wealthiest Americans:
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
Dans cette illusion d'optique, il y a deux cercles parfaits que votre cerveau "refuse" très prochainement de voir ! 🥰
Dans la deuxième figure, exprès en plus petit pour être lisible, j'ai ajouté deux cercles en noir pour casser l'illusion et confirmer le point précédent.
When it comes to fake news, prevention is better than cure.
"By exposing people to severely weakened doses of misinformation and by refuting it in advance, people can build up cognitive resistance to similar misinformation in the future," writes
Sander van der Linden Ph.D.
NEW ESSAY: you can't understand our current anti-trans moral panic without "Understanding the Anti-Trans Parent Movement," which has received almost no media scrutiny thus far. It's similar to the anti-vaxx parent movement in its science denialism & desire for purity (in this case, purging the "trans" from their child at all costs).
Ever since playing with ChatGPT, I've become sensitized to the way false rationality sounds ... there's a particular vibe to what is basically coherent nonsense. And now I've started to notice when people do it too. I get this crawly ChatGPT feeling when somebody is obviously making up an "authoritative" answer to a question they know nothing about. #AI#chatgpt#psychology
THE ILLUSION OF MORAL DECLINE by Adam M. Mastroianni and Daniel T. Gilbert (Nature, 2023).
"In a series of studies using both archival and original data (n = 12,492,983), we show that people in at least 60 nations around the world believe that morality is declining, that they have believed this for at least 70 years and that they attribute this decline both to the decreasing morality of individuals as they age and to the decreasing morality of successive generations. Next, we show that people’s reports of the morality of their contemporaries have not declined over time, suggesting that the perception of moral decline is an illusion. Finally, we show how a simple mechanism based on two well-established psychological phenomena (biased exposure to information and biased memory for information) can produce an illusion of moral decline."
New introduction for a new instance! Thank you very much for letting me join the #BeigeParty, I’m pleased to be here. I’m a #criminology researcher and in a couple of months I’ll be starting a #PhD in #psychology#MentalHealth looking at sexual risk taking and sexual relationships in people living with a diagnosis of “borderline personality disorder”. I’m very excited about this, I’m pretty old for a PhD student (49!) but I bring a lot of experience in working with people with complex mental health issues. I also have my own, I have lived with #bipolar and #anxiety since childhood.
I've easily found tech people on Mastodon but it's been harder to find #psychology and #neuroscience people, and I've noticed I followed mostly men, too. I've been consciously following new people when I see boosts, but it's really slow.
Then I found this tool, which finds people who are followed by people you follow, based on public information (so no permissions required!). Really nice way to get more of a diverse feed.
Florida bans AP psychology over gender identity, sexual orientation lessons ｜ Orlando Sentinel (nordot.app)
ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida will not allow public school students to take Advanced Placement psychology because the course includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, topics forbidden by the state, the College Board said Thursday. That could mean that a week before school starts in many districts, about 5,000...
The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud. (www.vox.com)
The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most famous and compelling psychological studies of all time, told us a tantalizingly simple story about human nature....