Hacker News with Generative AI: Human Behavior

Time alone heightens 'threat alert' in teenagers – even when on social media (cam.ac.uk)
People in their late teens experience an increased sensitivity to threats after just a few hours left in a room on their own – an effect that endures even if they are interacting online with friends and family.

Psychology, Social Media, Teenagers, Human Behavior

5 points by gnabgib 8 days ago | 1 comments

Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds (newyorker.com)
The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight.

Cognitive Psychology, Persuasion, Human Behavior, Argumentation

95 points by rbanffy 18 days ago | 86 comments

People think they already know everything they need to make decisions (arstechnica.com)
The world is full of people who have excessive confidence in their own abilities. This is famously described as the Dunning-Kruger effect, which describes how people who lack expertise in something will necessarily lack the knowledge needed to recognize their own limits.

Psychology, Cognitive Bias, Human Behavior

24 points by thunderbong 38 days ago | 3 comments

Task-Switching Experiment (2015) (psytoolkit.org)
The reality is that you can argue that people always multi-task in some way. After all, we always monitor our environment to some degree, no matter what. For example, no matter how deeply you concentrate on doing a task, if you hear someone shout "fire", you will process that information and act on it.

Psychology, Experiments, Human Behavior

54 points by dang 47 days ago | 15 comments

How We Sort the World (mitpress.mit.edu)
Despite the vast diversity and individuality in every life, we seek patterns, organization, and control. Or, as cognitive psychologist Gregory Murphy puts it: “We put an awful lot of effort into trying to figure out and convince others of just what kind of person someone is, what kind of action something was, and even what kind of object something is.”

Psychology, Cognitive Science, Categorization, Social Psychology, Human Behavior

43 points by r721 60 days ago | 19 comments

Avoidance Mapping: What It Is and Where It Fits in the Cartography Cube (geoawesome.com)
“… we all try to steer clear of certain places and people, whether we’re aware of it or not.” (Source)

Cartography, Data Visualization, Mapping, Spatial Analysis, Human Behavior

25 points by bryanrasmussen 60 days ago | 9 comments

Social Initiation (socialcommunication.truman.edu)
We teach our children that making friends is easy: you just walk up to any kid on the playground and say, “My name is [whatever], do you want to play?” And if you’re four or five years old, this works pretty well. But it’s a lot more complicated when you’re a grown-up.

Social Skills, Psychology, Human Behavior, Socialization

112 points by yamrzou 61 days ago | 32 comments

The layers of strategic thinking behind our everyday conversations (optimallyirrational.com)
One of the points I made in Optimally Irrational is how incredibly good we are at solving the complex problems we face in our lives. We are often oblivious to the feats we are achieving. There is hardly a better example than something we do every day: talking to each other.

Cognitive Science, Communication, Human Behavior, Decision Making

15 points by yamrzou 73 days ago | 0 comments

Why do people believe true things? (conspicuouscognition.com)

Cognitive Science, Psychology, Human Behavior

50 points by Michelangelo11 96 days ago | 56 comments

"Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers" (threadreaderapp.com)

Astrology, Science, Research, Human Behavior

141 points by agluszak 101 days ago | 4 comments

To Avoid Thinking Hard, We Will Endure Anything–Even Pain (psychologytoday.com)

Psychology, Cognitive Science, Human Behavior

14 points by EgoIsMyFriend 104 days ago | 5 comments

People's moral values change with the seasons (psych.ubc.ca)