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86 votes
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Who is likely to believe in conspiracy theories?
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The Monty Hall problem
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Unlike men, women’s cognitive performance may improve at higher room temperature
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Venting doesn't reduce anger, but doing calming activities does, study finds
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'Americans are fake and the Dutch are rude!': A personal account on their difference in social behavior
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No, you don't have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong
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Liberals and Conservatives React in Wildly Different Ways to Repulsive Pictures
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Finally, a personality quiz backed by science
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Loneliness can kill, and new research shows middle-aged Americans are particularly vulnerable
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Conspiracy theories can't be stopped
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The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation
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Why rich kids are so good at the marshmallow test
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Listening to podcasts may help satisfy our psychological need for social connection, study finds
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Democracy devouring itself: The paper predicting the end of democracy
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What the Prisoner's Dilemma reveals about life, the Universe, and everything
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Study: People expect others to mirror their own selfishness, generosity
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At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions.
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Extreme metal guitar skills linked to intrasexual competition, but not mating success
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A University of British Columbia study gave fifty homeless people $7,500 each and debunks stereotypes about homeless people’s spending habits
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Helping or harming? The effect of trigger warnings on individuals with trauma histories.
Publication: Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals with Trauma Histories. Pre-print version (for people, like me, who don't have access to the published version):...
Publication: Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals with Trauma Histories.
Pre-print version (for people, like me, who don't have access to the published version): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334380654_Helping_or_Harming_The_Effect_of_Trigger_Warnings_on_Individuals_with_Trauma_Histories
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The new font that promises to boost your memory
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Here's why automaticity is real actually
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One space between each sentence, they said. Science just proved them wrong.
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Psychopaths and narcissists have hogged the limelight, now i’s time to explore the saintlier side of human personality, say researchers, as they announce a test of the “Light Triad” traits
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Our brain typically overlooks this brilliant problem-solving strategy
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Microdosing's feel-good benefits might just be placebo effect
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The sunk cost fallacy
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Scientists identify four personality types
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Lonely people see the world differently, according to their brains
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I interviewed the researcher behind the Misinformation Susceptibility Test
https://youtu.be/vodNabH5qoM But some important context: Earlier this month I saw a post regarding a Misinformation Susceptibility Test and was curious how 20 binary questions could be an...
https://youtu.be/vodNabH5qoM
But some important context:Earlier this month I saw a post regarding a Misinformation Susceptibility Test and was curious how 20 binary questions could be an indicator of someones media biases.
I started digging into the related paper and while the methods and analysis was interesting, there was still a lot of questions. So I reached out to Dr Rakoen Maertens who headed the study and we agreed to a discussion on the assessment and his experiences in social psychology.
The video above is an unlisted, unedited cut of the interview and I'd love to get some feedback:
Firstly: I have offered the Dr a tildes invite and he may engage with any questions or discussion. Time was limited and there were a lot of topics that was only briefly touched on or overlooked. Here is the original paper and supplementary resources if you want to see some of the language model work and bigger 100 question tests.
Secondly: I am going to do a more through edit and posting this on a dedicated channel. Since cutting off reddit, twitter and tiktoc; I've sort of rediscovered a love learning and investigations. I'd like to know if people like this form of engagement and discussions. No fancy production, just simply engaging with the research and academics behind topical and interesting ideas.
I'm already reading into fandom psychology, UV reflective paint, children's TV and CO2 scrubbing technology.
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Is there any point in arguing with people?
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Can face-to-face discussions improve societal cohesion?
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The twitches that spread on social media
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The doomed mouse utopia that inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’. Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained)
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Williams syndrome: The opposite of autism
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Does transparency in moderation really matter? User behavior after content removal explanations on Reddit
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Underrated ideas in psychology
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The cognitive tradeoff hypothesis
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Illusions of time
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Women now seen as equally or more competent than men: Polling data suggest stereotypes have significantly changed since 1940s
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What if the placebo effect isn’t a trick?
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Truth in stereotypes
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I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is
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Stanford study into “Zoom Fatigue” explains why video chats are so tiring
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Is social media hijacking our minds?
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Magicians’ priming techniques are effective at influencing choice
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Making people aware of their implicit biases doesn’t usually change minds. But here’s what does work
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False witness: Why is the US still using hypnosis to convict criminals?
10 votes