Tag: psychology
Misdiagnosis Monday – Autism Venn Diagrams
Dr. Megan Anna Neff, Autistic-ADHD Clinician of Neurodivergent Insights posted these helpful Venn diagrams that show the overlap of symptoms in Autism and other mental…
People-Pleasers and Emotional Abuse
Sam Dylan Finch of Let’s Queer Things Up posted this insightful mental health thread about people-pleasers and emotional abuse. “Fawning” in psychology is the use of…
Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories
Psychology educator David Hundsness explained the four main reasons why people fall for and believe conspiracy theories. (Check out The Conspiracy Chart for just how…
The Best Trolley Problem Thought Experiments
The classic trolley problem is a thought experiment in ethics about a fictional scenario in which an onlooker has the choice to save 5 people in danger…
The Insane 1973 “Sex Raft” Experiment
This post is about the absolutely bonkers “Sex Raft” experiment that took place in 1973. I really don’t know who funded or approved this, but…
Most Studies of Human Nature Are Based on White Males
This is an interesting post about how most of our studies of human nature, psychology and even medicine are based on majority middle and upper…
Thread of Things People Learned in Therapy
This is a really great and insightful thread of people sharing things they learned in therapy. I feel like a lot of the advice in…
People Are Unable to Identify Flirting
teaboot started this interesting thread about how people are completely unable to identify flirting. Someone with a psychology degree jumped in to confirm this. Apparently there…
Humans Are The Only Species With Crowd Psychology
This “humans are space orcs” or “Earth is space Australia” post by phoenixyfriend is about humans being the only non-telepathic species whose behavior is impacted…
Ask Culture People vs Guess Culture People
This is an interesting discussion started by mefitours-blog-blog on “ask culture” vs “guess culture”, which is realizing it’s ok to ask for anything but people…