a pseudonymous guy who claims to have been extremely promiscuous gives #dating advice (for het men) which mostly sounds sort of reasonable, things like telling women you’re attracted to them (but escalating gradually), asking them out, being very willing to take no for an answer, don’t be ashamed, be curious about the women you’re connecting with, make sure they don’t regret seeing you, date people who are not unreasonable, etc. #psychology
on 02026-01-06“The Emotional Epistemology of the Red Pill”, thoroughly eviscerating the #manosphere with #psychology and SCIENCE
on 02025-12-23attractiveness correlates only very weakly wth lifetime sexxual partner count. #psychology
on 02025-12-19#manosphere influencers are rated as unattractive in a survey. #psychology
on 02025-12-19#manosphere influencers and footsoldiers are unattractive. #psychology
on 02025-12-19brutal takedown of #manosphere influencer Rollo Tomassi, who pretended to study evolutionary #psychology
on 02025-12-19they surveyed a bunch of men and women to see what male hobbies are most and least attractive to women. I wonder if they did the same for female hobbies’ attractiveness to men? #psychology
on 02025-12-19“The Rumpelstiltskin effect: therapeutic repercussions of clinical diagnosis” #paper #toread #psychology
on 02025-09-16Spaced repetition learning with systems like AnyMemo, SuperMemo, Anki, and the #psychology behind it
on 02021-11-11being around plants makes people happier, better able to handle Stroop tasks, better at delaying gratification and inhibiting impulses, according to pseudoscience #psychology
on 02019-01-21#Psychology #paper #PDF of “Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings”. Includes the questionnaire; §1 begins, “Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?”
on 02017-08-06Ivana Kurecic’s summary of “Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings” (A. Aron et al.; 1997): reciprocal self-disclosure and intimacy-related behavior, gradually escalating. #psychology
on 02017-08-06#sleep deprivation, circadian rhythms, and depression. #psychology
on 02017-03-15#PDF #paper reporting three experiments on #spaced-practice in a classroom environment. #education #psychology #toread
on 02017-03-15popularized #education #psychology recommendations: #spaced-practice, interleaved practice, and varied practice.
on 02017-03-11“trigger-action planning” or “implementation intentions” as a technique for “making intentions concrete”. #psychology #akrasia
on 02017-03-11a proposal that interesting group conversations don’t happen in most groups because intense questioning is perceived by others as a social attack. “The conversation, to be polite, sociable, and charming, is kept superficial.” #sociology #psychology
on 02017-03-11short #pdf #paperon #spaced-practice #education #psychology
on 02017-03-11a 2014 #ebook #chapter #pdf on #spaced-practice #toread #education #psychology
on 02017-03-11a 2012 #review #paper #pdf on #spaced-practice #toread #education #psychology
on 02017-03-11#education #psychology #interview on “retrieval practice”
on 02017-03-11#spaced-practice #psychology #paper “Making long-term memories in minutes” #toread
on 02017-03-11Pavlov’s 1927 #psychology paper was reprinted in Annals of Neuroscience in 2010, leading to people citing it as “Pavlov (2010)”.
on 02017-03-11#education #psychology #paper on (independently) #spaced-practice and overlearning of math
on 02017-03-11#pdf on empirical information about #education #psychology success factors: content knowledge, quality of instruction, classroom climate (constantly demanding more), etc. Seems terribly preliminary to me for the grandiose title.
on 02017-03-11#spaced-practice in math #education, shuffled formats, etc. #desirable-difficulties #psychology
on 02017-03-11#psychology of #education: Bjork’s "desirable difficulties" (although this includes the debunked unreadable-font experiment, I guess in 2011 it was still “in press”)
on 02017-03-1155-page #PDF #paper on #education #psychology evaluating ten learning techniques, half of which are widely used but don’t work. #Spaced-practice is one of the two that works very well, the other being “practice testing”. By Dunlosky et al.
on 02017-01-03position of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics on "procedural fluency". #education #psychology
on 02017-01-03#pdf whitepaper promoting some company’s vaguely described wares that claims that #education #psychology shows that “productive struggle” is needed to achieve “deep conceptual understanding and procedural fluency”.
on 02017-01-03#pdf by Learning Pool’s Donald Clark about #education #psychology and in particular #spaced-practice. Fairly illiterate, but mentions some interesting points.
on 02017-01-03#pdf #paper from 1978 showing a strong #spaced-practice effect on postmen learning to type on typewriters: 60 hours of practice spread over 12 weeks was more effective than 80 hours of practice over 3 weeks. There was even a significant improvement (about 15% on learning efficiency) from doing two one-hour sessions per day instead of one two-hour session. This shows that spaced practice isn’t just for memorization. By Baddeley & Longman. #psychology
on 02017-01-03#Autism makes it hard for other people to understand your emotions, even if they’re autistic too. #psychology
on 02016-09-11#education #psychology suggests that kids learn best by trying to imitate adults doing things, because if the adult is showing them things, they imitate them more exactly instead of understanding what’s going on
on 02016-08-01#paper “PRL-8-53: Enhanced learning and subsequent retention in humans as a result of low oral doses of new psychotropic agent” from 1978, when that kind of thing was done openly #psychology #drugs #nootropics
on 02016-07-11an article promoting Jaeggi’s #dual-n-back #psychology exercise for #intelligence amplification; doesn’t mention that later studies have found no transfer. Also talks about other even less proven exercises for boosting intelligence.
on 02016-07-04“personality subtypes of suicidal adults” #psychology #suicide
on 02016-01-04Pieter #Hintjens wrote this #ebook on #psychopaths, "The Psychopath Code", CC-BY-SA. #psychology
on 02015-12-05#paper “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit” #psychology
on 02015-12-03holy shit, being randomly assigned to taper off #antipsychotics early instead of continuing on them more than doubles your chances of functional recovery at 7 years, from 18% chance of recovery to 40% chance, in one experiment (Wunderlink et al. 2013) #psychology #psychiatry #drugs
on 02015-11-16“The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: a critical reappraisal of Julian Jaynes’ hypothesis” #psychology “the Iliad does not seem to mention any subjective thoughts or the contents of anyone’s mind. The heroes of the Iliad were not able to make decisions, no one was introspecting or even reminiscing. Apparently, they were noble “automata” who were not aware of what they did. Iliadic man did not have subjectivity as we do; he had no internal mind-space to introspect upon.”
on 02015-11-16