Gee, look what I was doing (as a student) a mere 45 years ago.

It's true: "You can find anything online"

We looked at Rupert Murdoch's Post (Full page screaming headlines) vs. the NY Times' treatment (bold headline with facts),
and how the 'fake news' &/or emotive slant impacted viewers' perceptions (or not). This was - #ContextAndPerspective - in New York City in an era when people read newspapers, and they were on every corner in #newstands, just a notch forward in timeline from the days of "Extra! Extra! Read all about i!". Papers at newsstands and grocery check-out cash registers, were ubiquitous, and impactful.

And, in our opinion - myself and future social psychologist Pete Dan - there was a clear, empirically demonstrable difference between tabloid headlines (in this case the Post's screaming headline "Nuke Cloud Spreading" vs the NY Times headline about a hairline fracture at the 3-Mile-Island Nuclear plant, near NYC.

O-Bla-Di, O-bla da. Happy Weekend!

#media #headlines #FakeNews #Propaganda #Truth #disinformation #psychology

Fascinating. People answer the trolley problem different if in their native and second languages.

Sorry for the Facebook link, I don't have another source.

#Philosophy
#Language
#Psychology

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0vjDkEChZpEmc4Tf1WeEdnBiggXdvYb7P23XR4W7gTk1Jd1C6Wuqpx47aADPu37s8l&id=100064327253926

May be 95% of all humans I know are under acute stress. Once I started ignoring them, my life became peaceful.

#life #work #psychology #mind #peace

The tipping point occurs when you no longer take the wickedness of others personally.

https://notesandsilence.com/2024/03/05/the-wickedness-of-others/
#meditation #silence #zen #psychology

The Wickedness of Others

The tipping point occurs when you no longer take the wickedness of others personally.When their words stopped fracturing your heart,Rather than feeling the tearing pain of the wounded man rising wi…

Ask social psychologist Phil Zimbardo about "bad apples" versus "bad barrels & barrel-makers".
IMM, Laurence O'Donnell is the embodiment of integrity, plus quite a good fit with the seeking of "context and perspective".
Even good barrels will occasionally produce bad apples, but bad barrels plus bad barrel-makers is what tips the scales toward evil.

If there are islands of responsible journalism that can speak truth to power, and ;even to apparent corruption of 'purity' in one's own ecosystem, I'm happy to see it and celebrate it. I'm thinking O'Donnell, Stephanie ("Let's get smarter" Ruhl), Wagner (who described #Muskvirus as a "free speech absolutist"), and others whose shifts I don't often see .... play on! Continue offering refuges of #truth.

MSNBC dissociates from NBC's hire of #GQP ex-Romney

#propagqnda #journalism #truth #MSNBC #LawrenceODonnell #RomneyMcDaniel #TrumpVirus #gaslighting #psychology

Fairly good advice. You have to accept the world is the way it is, but you also have to accept it can be changed. There isn't a paradox here, just a question of timescales : it's like this today for sure, unavoidably, and trying to fighting existing reality, trying permanently to effect immediate change (especially on a single issue) is mentally toxic. This is why I'm extremely wary of those whose "social" media threads are nothing but permanent activism. But you don't have to accept that everything is written in stone because it certainly isn't : it might well not be like this tomorrow. Cultural change is itself permanent. To maintain a genuine sense of the outrage necessary to effect change requires periodically stepping back, remembering the positives as well as the negatives, and not becoming habituated to routine evil.

Incidentally, I started reading Ordinary Men, the book behind the Netflix documentary. The documentary is excellent but the book is something else, horror beyond horror. I simply can't read it in long stretches, it makes me viscerally angry.

#Psychology

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240314-how-the-abnormal-gets-normalised-and-what-to-do-about-it

How the abnormal gets normalised – and what to do about it

As we browse the news, it's easy to become desensitised to awful events. Amanda Ruggeri explores the psychology, and the steps you can take to avoid it happening.

Adolescent psychopathic traits and adverse environments: Associations with socially adaptive outcomes | #psychology #psychopathy #empathy #manipulation #environment #sociology #adversity #strategy #coping #darktriad

Adolescent psychopathic traits and adverse environments: Associations with socially adaptive outcomes | Development and Psychopathology | Cambridge Core

Adolescent psychopathic traits and adverse environments: Associations with socially adaptive outcomes

An interesting statistical analysis, of which the results basically boil down to : yes, but only modestly, unless you're a seriously miserable sod in which case it makes no difference.

#Psychology
#Statistics

https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/does-money-buy-happiness-according-to-science

Does money buy happiness, according to science?

By Amber Dawn Ace and Spencer Greenberg Intuitively, yes; common sense tells us that poverty and hardship make people unhappy. We can use money to buy a lot of things that might make us happier – things like a nicer home, fancier vacations,...

Surprising link observed between body temperature and depression

https://www.psypost.org/surprising-link-observed-between-body-temperature-and-depression/

#psychology #depression

Surprising link observed between body temperature and depression

A groundbreaking study reveals a correlation between depression and higher body temperatures, shedding light on potential new treatments. This suggests thermoregulatory dysregulation may play a role in depression.

"Attention deficits linked with proclivity to explore while foraging".

"Our findings suggest that ADHD attributes may confer foraging advantages in some environments and invite the possibility that this condition may reflect an adaptation favouring exploration over exploitation."

I first encountered the "exploration over exploitation" in the context of reinforcement learning in computer science. The basic idea is, should you go to your favorite restaurant, or a restaurant you've never been to before? If you're in a new city where you've been to few restaurants, you should probably go to a new one. If you're in a city where you've lived for 10 years, and have been to most restaurants, maybe just go to the favorite. Where is the crossover point in between? You get the idea. Do you "exploit" the knowledge you have already, or do you "explore" to obtain more knowledge?

For the simplest cases, mathematicians have come up with formulas, and for complex cases, computer scientists have run simulations. In reinforcement learning, algorithms often have a tunable "hyperparameter" that can be used to increase the "exploration". Some problems require more "exploration" than others.

It appears the process of evolution may have evolved a variety of personalities to prioritize "exploration" or "exploitation".

Attention deficits linked with proclivity to explore while foraging

#discoveries #psychology #evolution

One of many ways the existing power structure maintains control

text of image: Very young black girl holding hands with White Jesus. She asks Jesus why are you white? Jesus answers “Because I’m a psychological tool. By creating the image of a white God, this subliminally engrains the myth of white superiority into the subconscious minds.”

#white #Jesus #psychology #tool #supremacy #racism #hierarchy

Meanwhile, in the world of formal and informal thought disorder...

Lord #TrumpVirus the stable genius, with all the best words (and they rhyme!)

INTERPOSE- His Word of the Day to explain how he intentionally 'interposed' the 2 names, Pelosi & Haley plus Obama & Biden. (continuously confusing them) ~ Because they're all the same, "Tricky Nikki, Tricky Dicky"...

#psychopathology / #psych #psychology #psychiatry Word of the Day: #Clang

How Clang Associations Happen in Psychotic Episodes

Clang associations are odd, nonsensical groupings of words spoken by people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia who are in the midst of psychosis.

Why you can't compare children to each other.

1.Comparisons cause feelings of inferiority. "I am inferior", "My sister/brother is loved more by my parents", "I will never be as successful".

2.Comparisons create jealousy, and jealousy destroys relationships between children.

3.Comparisons create a situation of unhealthy competition. Children should not compete with each other for superiority in the eyes of their parents. On the contrary, children should be "players on the same team", i.e. support each other.

4.Comparisons create resentment and anger towards parents. Thus, parents, without realizing it, destroy their relationship with their children.
#psychology

Source: https://www.b17.ru/article/315824/

Почему нельзя сравнивать детей?

Почему нельзя сравнивать детей? Многие родители совершают большую ошибку, когда ставят своих детей в пример друг другу.Конечно, делается это с благими ...

Digitopia is ruining our lives | #digitopia #dystopia #technology #anxiety #attention #depression #sleep #escapism #procrastination #psychology #cognition #affects #mindfullness

Engaged followership and toxic science: Exploring the effect of prototypicality on willingness to follow harmful experimental instructions | #psychology #obedience #authority #milgram #prototypicality

Pivotal mental states | #stress #neurotism #pivotal #mental #states #pivotalmentalstates #cognition #plasticity #psychology #learning #transformation #bestof

The Male Glance | VQR Online

A long read that you may find quite interesting.

Here's a "Reader's Digest" condensed version of the above story:

The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously - The Guardian

#Psychology #Subjectivity #Misogyny #View #Perspective #Art #Prejudice

Workplace Bullying

https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-respond-and-seek-help-when-youre-bullied-at-work

#psychology #work #workplace #working #bullying

How to deal with being bullied at work | Psyche Guides

You might understandably feel trapped and powerless, but there is a range of steps you can take to improve your situation

Playing with an AI/Chat character.... Topic of #TrumpVirus cultists still believers and falling for his grift.
I am the "guest", inquiring of a popular AI character calling itself "Psychologist"

Last bit of weekend fun. But would love to see any of the answer come to pass, with 2 of 3 options showing hope an evil cult leader will be rejected or rebelled against (Lord of the Flies style?) Although, with the #GQP / #MAGAt #cult it's a challenge, given the media bubble continuing to validate his veracity, and the massive 'peer pressure' to tune out all the cognitive dissonance (AKA #truth).

#AI #psychology

Lets play a game.

The premise is this:
I am going to pick three numbers out of all the numbers in the universe by using a secret rule. Your task is to figure out the rule I am using.

I'll do this as a thread by using the comment section to continue the clues (don't read the last one for the answer until you've given it a try).

Ready?

2 - 4 - 6

#Quiz #Game #Question #Psychology #ConfirmationBias