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The current mod [@Eli](https://lemmy.ml/u/Eli) hasn't been active since last July, so I have requested to be modded (thx [@dessalines](https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines)). Edit: I have added rules and a new community image. **If you find any news regarding psychology, its fields, or you want to ask/discuss something, please do so :D** And if you have any more ideas for this community, please share them here! Looking at [/r/psychology,](https://teddit.net/r/psychology) it seems that restricting the content to only scientific news/papers might stop an inflood of low-quality submissions that are just unscientific at best; but many of the articles over there are often just the results of one/two studies taken at face value.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/19879638 > 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' > > Are you an asker or a guesser? Short interesting read.
I was curious about how one can begin to understand their child's sense of ToM. I've felt like my child is maybe a bit above the curve in terms of mental development (he is already capable of saying maybe 50-60 words, including names of 5 people and one dog, at 18 months old. He can also combine words to make contextually appropriate statements (for example: if I'm getting my coat on, he might say "daddy bye-bye" as if to say "Dad is leaving"). If he doesn't see his mother he might just say "mom-mom?" while raising his arms in the universal "who knows?" position—or he will say "mom-mom gone". I've been around several 18mos and it seems atypical to me that they're capable of these things so early. Well today he did something interesting. When he sits on the potty he likes to read a book, and just a few minutes ago I closed the door so I could go to the bathroom, and he slid a book under the bathroom door. Is it just automatic? Or is he forming some prototypical sense of "I like to read when I'm on the toilet, so I'll bring one for him since he is on the toilet"? Edit: I seem to have riled up some negative emotions in the readers on this community, for what reason I have no idea, but for what it's worth: I'm not trying to just brag about my child. If he's average that's awesome. I'm just trying to give context on what I see my kid does and use that to maybe try to understand how his mind works. It's a fascinating subject to me.
My post was removed because I put it in the wrong category/community sorry for that, 
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
Huxley was a very special kind of expert witness to his own unusual states of consciousness, which he actively cultivated in the service of his writing.
piped.video
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/5320372 > The strange science experiment that blew a worm’s head off… and blew our minds. > > This interview is an episode from /channel/UCz7Gx6wLCiPw3F-AmXUvH8w, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the /channel/UCMJ6QeJUbCUuhOSYZadF7sA. > > Michael Levin, a developmental biologist at Tufts University, challenges conventional notions of intelligence, arguing that it is inherently collective rather than individual. > > Levin explains that we are collections of cells, with each cell possessing competencies developed from their evolution from unicellular organisms. This forms a multi-scale competency architecture, where each level, from cells to tissues to organs, is solving problems within their unique spaces. > > Levin emphasizes that properly recognizing intelligence, which spans different scales of existence, is vital for understanding life's complexities. And this perspective suggests a radical shift in understanding ourselves and the world around us, acknowledging the cognitive abilities present at every level of our existence. > > Read the video transcript ► https://bigthink.com/the-well/intelligence-can-cells-think/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube_description > > * https://piped.video/watch?v=U93x9AWeuOA > * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U93x9AWeuOA
We are familiar with the social "id" through mob dynamics, crowd control. But is there anything akin to the ego and superego for society or groups? Maybe the media act as a bit of a superego on societies...but maybe the concept just does not extend that easily.
Would fight or flight kick in with their behavior in avoiding the critical deepest (crash-causing, lost-data) software component name and identity? If the mistakes in such programming languages were causing multiple independent servers to melt down in CPU overload? Can media machines traumatize developers, if there are extreme dehumanization contents and pornography stored in that back-end critical component? If the avoided programming language and logical errors in their own responsibilities utilized the word "TRIGGER" (programming syntax), could that induce social anxiety behavior?
Lately I have been hearing the term "cognitive dissonance" being used a fair amount. I am checking my understanding of it so please bare with me and feel free to correct me if I am wrong. My understanding of the term is that it refers to someone who continues to hold on to their core beliefs despite overwhelming incontrovertible evidence that their beliefs are patently wrong.
I tend to feel very encouraging and accepting of kinks, I dislike kinkshaming and in order to offer a safe and welcoming space to people with niche kinks I was considering opening a fediverse instance with either lemmy or kbin dedicated to nsfw content. I worry about some kinks being more than just kinks and I wouldn't like to allow things that are unhealthy or hateful. One such kink that worries me is raceplay and other things in that category like blacked, bleached and whatnot (not an expert in that field of kinks so I only know those three, wouldn't be surprised if there was more). I'm ready to bet that at least someone into those is racist but what would the percentage be? Is it something most people browse to get turned on and it ends there or is it some kind of extension of their real hatred for people of a specific type?
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/320808 > As a general rule: > > Machiavellianism is manipulation > > Narcissism is looks > > Psychopathy is violence > > ChatGPT tells me this question is very offensive to psychopaths and refuses to answer.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/184069 > All I found with citations was that it's best to wait until marriage before cohabitation, but that boomer talk ain't gonna happen for zoomers. > > Otherwise, 1 article said "wait as long as possible" but I need a month/year number lmao.
R-selection is like having 1000 offsprings, whereas k-selection is like having only 1. I heard a variation applied to humans in a psychology textbook about how abused humans are more likely to have more kids than unabused and cannot find the name of this theory
Scishow psych is the only one I know of https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUdettijNYvLAm4AixZv4RA
nixsanctuary.com
Like should we just settle with things being unfair? "Angry people tend to demand things: fairness, appreciation, agreement, willingness to do things their way – disappointment becomes anger for angry people
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/321148 > Like say per month. > > For me specifically, I have no living family members
Like any other psychology sub, except only post psychology things that are immediately usable. For example, see posts in sub. You can edit titles to make the how to apply this psychology to your life more obvious.
labs.thecodeboss.dev
The guide to practicing "How to Win Friends and Influence People". I wonder how would it work in your conditions? It does make me unnatural I don't know...
every.to
"The framework is called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and even though it's backed by 800+ randomized controlled studies, it is relatively unknown outside of therapy circles. This post explains the basics of ACT, how it impacted my life, and how you can begin to apply it too."
tenderly.medium.com
Best example I have is among us. When i'm accused of being the imposter, when i defend myself, people only find me **more** guilty
Original post here: https://medium.com/counterarts/you-are-not-lazy-or-undisciplined-you-are-experiencing-internal-resistance-755a02673aa9 Scribe is an alternate debloated front-end for medium.
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Another great video by 3Blue1Brown! I think the perspectives about the test paradox could probably be relevant to most fields that require statistical knowledge.
gizmodo.com
> Scientists may be closer to understanding how the brain can function differently in people who have bipolar disorder. In a new study, researchers say they’ve found evidence that certain brain cells trigger inflammation more easily in those who have BPD, and that these wayward cells can be linked to decreased neural activity that could be harmful to our mental health. The findings, published on Thursday in Stem Cell Reports, could hint at a new way to treat bipolar disorder someday, though more research is still needed. > > Scientists have been studying the connection between inflammation and mental illness for some time, including bipolar disorder. People with bipolar disorder experience uncontrollable mood swings that can leave them severely depressed one moment and manic the next. People with bipolar disorder are known to be more likely to have other conditions associated with chronic inflammation, such as hypertension and diabetes. Some studies have also shown that bipolar disorder patients can have higher levels of proteins that goad the body into becoming inflamed, especially when they’re in the middle of a manic episode. These proteins include interleukin 6 (IL-6), which plays many roles in the body, such as guiding the body’s acute response to infection. > > In their new study, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, the University of California, San Diego, and the Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris decided to look at a specific type of brain cell, the astrocyte. These are star-shaped cells in the brain that carry out a number of important functions that help support neurons. One of these functions include being part of the chain of command that triggers inflammation in the brain and surrounding nervous system, which is meant to help the brain respond to injury or infection. The researchers theorized that this generally useful process can go awry in people with bipolar disorder, and that astrocytes can have a part in this dysfunctional inflammation. > > “Due to a growing understanding of the role of neuroinflammation in psychiatric disorders, we asked whether altered inflammation-driven signaling in astrocytes was associated with bipolar disorder,” study author Fred Gage, president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, said in an email. > > Gage and his team used stem cells derived from six people with bipolar disorder as well as four controls without bipolar disorder, then had them develop into astrocytes that were studied in the lab. (They had figured out how to create these cells from earlier research.) Compared to the control group, the astrocytes from patients with bipolar disorder were noticeably different. The cells had higher expression of their IL-6 gene and as a result, they secreted more IL-6 than the control astrocytes. When they exposed neurons to these astrocytes, the team saw decreased levels of neural activity, compared to the astrocytes from the controls. And when the researchers introduced an antibody that suppressed IL-6 into the mix, the neurons were less hampered by the astrocytes, further implicating IL-6. Lastly, the blood of bipolar disorder patients also contained more IL-6 than controls. > > G/O Media may get a commission > > “Our study suggests that normal function of astrocytes is affected in bipolar disorder patients’ brains, contributing to neuroinflammation,” co-author Renata Santos, a researcher at the Salk Institute as well as the Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris, said. > > The findings are certainly intriguing, but the researchers warn there’s still a long road to go before we can confirm a clear, causal link between impaired astrocytes, IL-6, and bipolar disorder, much less something that could lead to meaningful new treatments. Lab-grown astrocytes might be different from those found in our brain in important ways, for instance. (One difference is that these cells are less mature.) And since the brain is plenty complicated, there are likely other aspects of our biology, including in the brain, that could play an important role in causing bipolar disorder. > > “Our findings elucidate aspects of the understudied role of astrocytes in neuroinflammation in psychiatric disorders, with relevance for altered IL-6 and inflammatory signaling in bipolar disorder patient astrocytes,” lead author Krishna Vadodaria, a research associate at the Salk Institute, said. > > If the researchers are onto something here, it’s possible astrocytes could not only help provide further insight on bipolar disorder, but other mental illnesses linked to inflammation, such as schizophrenia, according to study author Carol Marchetto, now an anthropology researcher at UC San Diego. And they hope their work will help propel future research into astrocytes and inflammation—research that could lead to the development of treatments that might reverse the harmful bodily changes seen in those with bipolar disorder and similar conditions.
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