Hacker News with Generative AI: Psychology

System Justification Theory (wikipedia.org)
System justification theory is a theory within social psychology that system-justifying beliefs serve a psychologically palliative function.
Social Psychology, Psychology, Theory
4 points by yamrzou 2 days ago | 0 comments
Body Doubling (bodydoubling.com)
In simple terms, it’s merely being in the same room with another person who is having trouble getting things done on their own. As a body double, you don’t need to help or even say anything. All you need to do is just be there in the room, and through some invisible power, the other person is able to focus and finish their work.
Productivity, Work Habits, Psychology
4 points by yamrzou 2 days ago | 1 comments
I'm a neuroscientist. Here's the surprising truth about TikTok 'brain rot' (sciencefocus.com)
Neuroscience, Social Media, Psychology, Health
18 points by nabla9 4 days ago | 22 comments
Why calling loved ones by their name is strangely awkward (theatlantic.com)
Why calling loved ones by their name is strangely awkward
Social Interactions, Psychology, Relationships
8 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 1 comments
Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations: From IBM CGA Colours to Mnemonic Systems (susam.net)
This is a vanity page that records some of the associations between various numbers, colours, and phonemes as they appear in my mind. I must mention here that I do not have synaesthesia. Many of these connections were shaped by childhood experiences. Notably, two unrelated influences, learning about computers and studying mnemonic systems, have played a significant role in forming these associations.
Memory, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Computing, Mnemonics
29 points by susam 6 days ago | 8 comments
"Do you not like money?" (rubenerd.com)
I received an email from an Australian financial company with the blog title as the subject, and it’s been rattling around in my head for days.
Finance, Marketing, Psychology
70 points by rbanffy 9 days ago | 158 comments
'Event Scripts' Structure Our Personal Memories (quantamagazine.org)
By screening films in a brain scanner, neuroscientists discovered a rich library of neural scripts — from a trip through an airport to a marriage proposal — that form scaffolds for memories of our experiences.
Neuroscience, Memory, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence
4 points by abe94 9 days ago | 0 comments
The 'masculinity crisis' is a crisis of self-esteem (psyche.co)
The early 21st century is described as a time of crises. Liberal democracy, the US (or global) economy, the environment, masculinity, ageing populations, migration, misinformation and social media use are all supposedly in crisis – amounting to what some have called a global ‘polycrisis’. The reader will be forgiven for being sceptical, then, as I draw on the philosophical literature on recognition theory to introduce one more to the stage.
Masculinity, Psychology, Sociology
10 points by herbertl 10 days ago | 8 comments
False memories of fabricated political events (2013) (sciencedirect.com)
In the largest false memory study to date, 5,269 participants were asked about their memories for three true and one of five fabricated political events.
Psychology, Memory, Politics, Research, Experiments
12 points by rbanffy 10 days ago | 1 comments
Why it's possible to be optimistic in a world of bad news (psyche.co)
What does it mean to be optimistic? We usually think of optimism as an expectation that things will work out for the best.
Optimism, Psychology, News, World Events
7 points by herbertl 10 days ago | 5 comments
Parents favor daughters: A meta-analysis of predictors of differential treatment (psycnet.apa.org)
Psychology, Gender, Meta-Analysis, Parenting
30 points by c-oreills 10 days ago | 17 comments
They hijacked our flow state (desunit.com)
They stole our flow state – and turned it into a business model.
Psychology, Flow State, Business Models
18 points by desunit 11 days ago | 4 comments
Men overestimate women's preference for masculinity (bps.org.uk)
Psychology, Gender Studies, Relationships, Social Science
30 points by domofutu 12 days ago | 32 comments
Studies correlating IQ to genius are mostly bad science (theseedsofscience.pub)
Stratospheric IQs are about as real as leprechauns, unicorns, mermaids—they’re fun to tell tales about, but the evidence for them being a repeatedly measurable phenomenon that matters in any meaningful sense of the word is zip, zero, zilch.
Intelligence, Science, Psychology
113 points by paulpauper 12 days ago | 155 comments
Gregory Bateson changed the way we think about changing ourselves (2019) (aeon.co)
There are times when a dilemma that seems like agony in adolescence can not only provide the basis for a prestigious career, but also lead to a profound shift in the world of ideas.
Philosophy, Psychology, Change, Ideas
7 points by yamrzou 12 days ago | 0 comments
'Event Scripts' Structure Our Personal Memories (quantamagazine.org)
By screening films in a brain scanner, neuroscientists discovered a rich library of neural scripts — from a trip through an airport to a marriage proposal — that form scaffolds for memories of our experiences.
Neuroscience, Memory, Psychology, Cognitive Science
7 points by Brajeshwar 12 days ago | 0 comments
Do ambiguous images provide psychological insights? Testing a popular claim (peerj.com)
Social media posts and websites claim that the way in which people perceive ambiguous images reveals insights into their personality and thinking style.
Psychology, Perception, Image Interpretation, Social Media, Research
28 points by thinkingemote 15 days ago | 19 comments
Physical attractiveness outweighs intelligence in partner selection (psypost.org)
Women and their parents report that intelligence is more important than physical attractiveness in a long-term partner, yet when forced to choose, they both favor a more attractive mate—even when the less attractive option is described as more intelligent.
Psychology, Relationships, Human Behavior, Gender Studies
54 points by handfuloflight 15 days ago | 44 comments
Excessive Criticism Is a Sign of Internal Conflict (Projecting) (kupajo.com)
Excessive criticism is a red flag that signals internal conflict.
Psychology, Self-Help, Relationships
12 points by kolyder 17 days ago | 3 comments
Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers? (theguardian.com)
Life must be great as a baby: to be fed and clothed and carried places in soft pouches, to be waved and smiled at by adoring strangers, to have the temerity to scream because food hasn’t arrived quickly enough, and then to throw it on the ground when it is displeasing. It’s a shame none of us recalls exactly how good we once had it.
Psychology, Memory
256 points by bookofjoe 17 days ago | 260 comments
Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking (2020) (psyche.co)
Talking out loud to oneself is a technology for thinking that allows us to clarify and sharpen our approach to a problem
Cognitive Science, Psychology, Thinking, Problem Solving
26 points by yamrzou 18 days ago | 0 comments
The human mind is in a recession (ft.com)
The human mind is in a recession.
Economics, Psychology, Human Behavior
45 points by anjel 18 days ago | 51 comments
Like It or Not, AI Is Learning How to Manipulate You (venturebeat.com)
I reminisce because in 1980 a skilled human could observe these AI agents, decode their unique personalities and use those insights to outsmart them. Now, 45 years later, the tides are about to turn. Like it or not, AI agents will soon be deployed that are tasked with decoding your personality so they can use those insights to optimally influence you.
Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Manipulation, Human-Computer Interaction
6 points by bonkerbits 18 days ago | 1 comments
Facing the Music or Burying Our Heads in the Sand? (nlm.nih.gov)
Defenses that keep threatening information out of awareness are posited to reduce anxiety at the cost of longer-term dysfunction. By contrast, socioemotional selectivity theory suggests that preference for positively-valenced information is a late-life manifestation of adaptive emotion regulation.
Psychology, Cognitive Science, Aging, Emotion Regulation
12 points by bobongo 19 days ago | 3 comments
AI Mistakes Are Different from Human Mistakes (schneier.com)
Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can break trust with our friends, lose the confidence of our bosses, and sometimes be the difference between life and death.
Artificial Intelligence, Human Error, Psychology
29 points by sorokod 20 days ago | 8 comments
In a showdown of psychotherapists vs. ChatGPT, the latter wins, new study finds (fortune.com)
Couples therapy can be helpful—but so can an AI chatbot, researchers found.
Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Chatbots, Research
29 points by dr_dshiv 20 days ago | 17 comments
Head Games – a humiliating list of all the ways your brain can deceive you (futilitycloset.com)
This is beautifully well done — a humiliating list of all the ways your brain can deceive you (click to enlarge).
Psychology, Cognitive Science, Human Brain, Neuroscience, Deceptions
9 points by beardyw 22 days ago | 0 comments
The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind (nautil.us)
Delirium exposes the gap between the ideal and the reality
Death, Consciousness, Neuroscience, Psychology
25 points by dnetesn 22 days ago | 2 comments
Decisions are temporary, so make the call and move on (basecamp.com)
Done. Start to think of it as a magical word. When you get to done it means something’s been accomplished. A decision has been made and you can move on. Done means you’re building momentum.
Productivity, Decision Making, Psychology, Work
3 points by notpushkin 23 days ago | 0 comments
The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind (mitpress.mit.edu)
Delirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a disoriented mind.
Death, Neuroscience, Psychology, Medicine, Cultural Studies
179 points by anarbadalov 25 days ago | 131 comments