Hacker News with Generative AI: Psychology

Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral (newyorker.com)
A new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness.
Ideas, Virality, Psychology, Social Media, Books
70 points by samizdis 153 days ago | 120 comments
Moments of Awakening (astralcodexten.com)
Consciousness is the great mystery. In search of answers, scientists have plumbed every edge case they can think of - sleep, comas, lucid dreams, LSD trips, meditative ecstasies, seizures, neurosurgeries, that one pastor in 18th century England who claimed a carriage accident turned him into a p-zombie. Still, new stuff occasionally turns up.
Consciousness, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology
6 points by mpweiher 155 days ago | 0 comments
Harsh Nazi Parenting Guidelines May Still Affect German Children of Today (scientificamerican.com)
The Nazi regime urged German mothers to ignore their toddlers’ emotional needs—the better to raise hardened soldiers and followers. Attachment researchers say that the harmful effects of that teaching may be affecting later generations
Parenting, History, Germany, Psychology, Social Science
7 points by burgerrito 156 days ago | 1 comments
I assume I'm below average (2010) (sive.rs)
When I learned this, it shook my soul.
Psychology, Self-Reflection, Personal Growth
8 points by vinhnx 157 days ago | 6 comments
On The Relation of Boredom and Sadistic Aggression (2020) (researchgate.net)
Psychology, Aggression, Boredom
8 points by neom 158 days ago | 4 comments
Why Zimbardo's Prison Experiment Isn't in My Textbook (2013) (psychologytoday.com)
It’s true that Zimbardo’s experiment is one of the two or three most famous experiments in the history of psychology. But it’s not true that it’s depicted in all introductory psychology textbooks.
Psychology, Education, Social Science
5 points by Tomte 159 days ago | 0 comments
Violence on TV: what happens to children who watch? (umontreal.ca)
Boys exposed to violent screen content in the preschool years were more likely to become antisocial and violent themselves a decade later, in their mid-teens, a new study shows.
Violence, Children, Media, Research, Psychology
10 points by gnabgib 160 days ago | 5 comments
Instagram Addiction (greg.technology)
Social Media, Addiction, Psychology
126 points by gregsadetsky 160 days ago | 102 comments
ChatGPT Helps Students Feign ADHD: An Analogue Study on AI-Assisted Coaching (springer.com)
This preregistered study aimed to assess whether AI-generated coaching helps students to successfully feign attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adulthood.
Artificial Intelligence, Education, Psychology, ADHD
45 points by paulpauper 160 days ago | 46 comments
The Entropy of Thought: Why Our Minds Gravitate Toward Divided Realities (medium.com)
Psychology, Philosophy, Cognition
16 points by victorasao 161 days ago | 7 comments
Why Every Generation Thinks It Was the Last to Touch Real Life (clickworlddaily.com)
Memory plays tricks, but maybe the truth is deeper than that.
Generations, Culture, Nostalgia, Sociology, Psychology
8 points by versiqcontent 162 days ago | 6 comments
Brain on GPS (theglobeandmail.com)
Having an omniscient navigational tool in your pocket at all times has changed not just how we find our way around, but how we construct a mental representation of the world around us
Navigation, Psychology, Technology, Mental Models
3 points by jack_peplinski 162 days ago | 0 comments
The Three C's of Meaningful Work (psychologytoday.com)
In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, employees are seeking more than just a paycheck—they want meaning in their work.
Work, Psychology, Meaningful Work, Career
9 points by exiguus 162 days ago | 2 comments
Fearmongering (wikipedia.org)
Fearmongering, or scaremongering, is the act of exploiting feelings of fear by using exaggerated rumors of impending danger, usually for personal gain.
Fearmongering, Psychology, Communication, Social Manipulation
20 points by downboots 163 days ago | 1 comments
Williams Syndrome: The people who are too friendly (bbc.com)
People with Williams Syndrome treat strangers as their new best friends. Now the condition is giving clues to our evolutionary past – and what makes us human.
Genetics, Psychology, Social Behavior, Evolution
17 points by bookofjoe 164 days ago | 1 comments
Where Perfectionism Exists, Shame Is Always Lurking (bearblog.dev)
I used to take pride in being a perfectionist.
Perfectionism, Shame, Psychology, Self-Improvement, Personal Growth
3 points by Tomte 164 days ago | 1 comments
Williams Syndrome: The people who are too friendly (bbc.com)
People with Williams Syndrome treat strangers as their new best friends. Now the condition is giving clues to our evolutionary past – and what makes us human.
Genetics, Psychology, Social Behavior, Human Evolution
10 points by neom 165 days ago | 0 comments
Adverse childhood experiences and interpersonal functioning: A systemic review (sciencedirect.com)
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are widely recognised as predictors of later life psychosocial outcomes (e.g., Kalmakis & Chandler, 2015).
Psychology, Childhood Development, Systemic Review, Mental Health
4 points by rendx 165 days ago | 0 comments
“The Mind in the Wheel” lays out a new foundation for the science of mind (experimental-history.com)
I’ve complained a lot about the state of psychology, but eventually it’s time to stop whining and start building. That time is now.
Psychology, Science, Philosophy, Neuroscience
125 points by CharlesW 165 days ago | 89 comments
My hours seem to slip away. How can I manage my time better? (theguardian.com)
Your relationship to time is the “essential ingredient” in how you experience your days, argues Ian Taylor in his new book Time Hacks: The Psychology of Time and How to Spend It.
Time Management, Productivity, Psychology, Books
10 points by creer 166 days ago | 0 comments
Conspiracy theorists can be deprogrammed (nautil.us)
AI-delivered evidence might be better at changing minds than you are
Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Conspiracy Theories
49 points by rbanffy 168 days ago | 108 comments
Taleb: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Argument Closed) (medium.com)
“IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning difficulties), as well as, to a lesser extent (with a lot of noise), a form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects — how good someone is at taking some type of exams designed by unsophisticated nerds.
Intelligence, Psychology, Education, Social Science
9 points by david927 168 days ago | 1 comments
Social drinking also a well-worn path to alcohol use disorder (news.illinois.edu)
“Evidence for the centrality of social motives in problem drinking surround us,” write the authors, Catharine Fairbairn, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Dahyeon Kang, of the University of Washington. “While solitary drinking might serve as a useful early indicator of alcohol use disorder risk … research suggests that individuals reliably consume more alcohol in social contexts than when alone.”
Social Drinking, Psychology, Health
71 points by gnabgib 171 days ago | 82 comments
Phrases introverts use that set them apart (msn.com)
As a leadership consultant who studies workplace psychology, I've spent more than 30 years helping thousands of individuals and CEOs at multimillion-dollar organizations.
Introverts, Communication, Psychology, Workplace Culture, Leadership
5 points by galaxyLogic 172 days ago | 3 comments
Examining problematic speech and behavior in World of Warcraft (2022) (tcjournal.org)
Building on Rubin and Camm’s (2013) heuristic regarding online griefing and trolling, this paper considers how anonymity, avatar creation, and online identity play into, and characterize, perceived-negative behavior in World of Warcraft.
Gaming, Online Behavior, Sociology, Psychology
18 points by felineflock 173 days ago | 30 comments
A Thematic Analysis of How Near-Death Experiences Affect Employees' Work Lives (ingentaconnect.com)
Near-death experiences (NDEs) refer to the experiences people have when they are close to death as a result of medical emergencies or accidents (Kelly et al., 2007). Such experiences often have life-changing effects referred to as aftereffects. However, there is virtually no research on NDE aftereffects in the context of work. In the present study, we interviewed 14 working adults to explore how an NDE affected their work lives.
Near-Death Experiences, Work-Life Balance, Psychology, Research, Qualitative Research
8 points by harambae 174 days ago | 0 comments
Jamais vu: the science behind eerie opposite of déjà vu (2023) (theconversation.com)
Repetition has a strange relationship with the mind. Take the experience of déjà vu, when we wrongly believe have experienced a novel situation in the past – leaving you with an spooky sense of pastness. But we have discovered that déjà vu is actually a window into the workings of our memory system.
Psychology, Memory, Science, Cognitive Neuroscience
7 points by gnabgib 175 days ago | 0 comments
The Creative Power of Constraints (arun.is)
One of the most marvelous aspects of the human experience is creativity. Yet, for those in the business of creativity, the creative act can be both the most rewarding and the most frustrating experience in life. Sometimes the mind is drenched in free, flowing ideas. Other times, the mind feels just like a desert, producing nothing.
Creativity, Constraints, Psychology, Human Experience
34 points by zhenpixels 175 days ago | 10 comments
The Death of Daydreaming (afterbabel.com)
Can you remember the last time you daydreamed? Or coped with boredom without reaching for your phone? Before the era of mobile technology, most of us had no choice but to wait without stimulation, and often, that meant being bored.
Boredom, Technology, Mobile Technology, Psychology
707 points by isolli 176 days ago | 265 comments
Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (simplypsychology.org)
The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) is the range of tasks a person can’t complete independently but can accomplish with support.
Psychology, Education, Child Development
15 points by Anon84 177 days ago | 10 comments