RE: https://infosec.exchange/@guyjantic/116108893032363524
To help undergrads grasp cognitive dissonance effects, I often end my lecture on this topic with "Be careful who or what you sacrifice for."
Apparently I can quote-boost my own reply to my own post. The narcissistic possibilities expand like a blackberry bush in western Washington.
#CognitiveDissonance #psychology #professor #mastodon #unintendedConsequences
Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
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Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.
https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-mental-health-therapists-quit-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Military #Army #Veterans #MentalHealth #PTSD #Health #Psychology #Psychiatry #SocialWork #Trump
#cfp #Psychology #CallforPapers #OpenScience #Migration #DataSharing #FAIRData
📢 Call for Papers: The Journal of Open Psychology Data is launching a Special Issue on migration & integration data! Do you work with datasets on acculturation, identity, empowerment, or adaptation? Share your well-documented data and contribute to transparent, cumulative science.
🗓 Submission deadline: June 30, 2026
🔗 Author info & guidelines: https://openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🕵️♂️📰 Trying to piece together what to believe can feel impossible, but we can still find reliable, trustworthy #answers as long as we know how to look for them.
Hank Green and Sage Magee explain the SIFT method, a four-step tool to help you investigate sources and trace claims back to their origins to find the whole #truth.
👉 Learn more: https://zurl.co/182Du
#disinformation #diy #howto #information #literacy #media #microplastics #misinformation #news #plastic #research #science #journalism #psychology #mentalhealth #propaganda #education #tksst #video
🕵️♂️📰 Trying to piece together what to believe can feel impossible, but we can still find reliable, trustworthy #answers as long as we know how to look for them.
Hank Green and Sage Magee explain the SIFT method, a four-step tool to help you investigate sources and trace claims back to their origins to find the whole #truth.
#disinformation #diy #howto #information #literacy #media #microplastics #misinformation #news #plastic #research #science #journalism #psychology #mentalhealth #propaganda #education #tksst #video
Way ahead of you #Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/10/how-to-recognise-handle-psychopath My take on #psychopaths, #Trump and #evolution here https://nikolaskozloff.substack.com/p/reflections-on-trump-sociopaths-and #psychology #politics #psychopathy #sociopaths #narcissism #narcissist #fascism
Yeah... I find myself questioning the "Smart" part.
No, I'm serious. This is a recursive problem & you can't possibly calculate the answer.
It's that simple. See comments if you don't get it.
- but these "smart" people are tricked into digging themselves into worse & worse justifications for pretending it's possible, up to Derek fucking denouncing free will...!
Do you know of documented cases in which an eyewitness initially rejected a lineup including a suspect who was subsequently convicted with very strong evidence of guilt? i.e., real-life false negative lineup decisions? #psychology The argument in https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2551222 implies such cases should be rare.
I quite enjoyed this infographic from Nature about what makes the human brain special: https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-024-03425-y/index.html #neuroscience #CognitiveNeuro #psychology
📢 Working with educational datasets in psychology?
Consider publishing a data paper in the upcoming Journal of Open Psychology Data (JOPD) special issue on educational datasets. Contributions across all learning stages, from early childhood to adult learning, are welcome, especially datasets enabling secondary analyses.
🗓 Deadline: June 30, 2026
🔗 https://openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/announcements#call-for-data-papers---special-issue:-educational-datasets-for-psychological-research
#OpenScience #OpenData #EducationalResearch #Psychology #FAIRData #DataPapers
My friend Jay Wren recommended a book yesterday at lunch:
"Thinking, Fast and Slow"
by Daniel Kahneman
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman
A recommendation from Jay is an insta-buy. I got it as an audio-book (because of my commute).
It is not **at all** what I was expecting! I guess I thought maybe I was expecting something like a "self-help" book or the like. No. This is **not** a book aimed at a broad audience. This is a book aimed at people who understand (at least a bit about) probability and bias and category theory and ... What I'm saying is: it's not fluff. It's genuine knowledge aimed square at me. Jay's recommendation was on the money.
I wouldn't hand this to my MIL (it's past her at this point). I wouldn't hand it to my wife (she's certainly smart enough, but I don't think it falls in her circle of interest). I absolutely **would** recommend it to **you**, or to anyone in my circle of friends.
Go have some fun!
Toxify Game Design Challenge Game Idea
In 'Empty Grifters', players take on a deceptive influencer selling online courses that prey on the insecurities of young people.
You are a student hoping to become an investigative journalist someday. Can you expose how these fraudsters have trapped young people in cycles of self-doubt?
🔎 Will you expose them in time?
Submit your game pitch today at https://toxify.org
#toxic #gamedev #indiedev #socialmedia #masculinity #influencers #media #communication #psychology @gamingagainstv
Rob Mulhern was in his mid-20s when one of his closest friends died. In the fog of grief, he turned to YouTube for distraction and help.
"I started getting these self-help videos from Jordan Peterson."
What began as a self-help journey became a worldview shaped by frustration and division.
#toxic #masculinity #manosphere #socialmedia #youtube #sociology #feminism #psychology #culture #media
#Design #Explorations
The little red dot · A simple design element is hacking our brain https://ilo.im/16ausr
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#Website #SocialMedia #Notifications #Addictions #Psychology #DeceptiveDesign #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign
Time for a brief #introduction; I've been delighted at the community here. (#KeepFediWeird pls)
I'm a #polyamorous weirdo with an MA in #Counseling, a MS in #ComputerScience and ~15 years at Microsoft. Starting my #therapist private practice soon, so I may be talking a lot about that.
Also interested in these topics:
#crafts 🧶
#queer 🏳️🌈
#psychology 🧠
#economics 📊
#MentalHealth 🥗
#BurningMan 🔥
#weaving 🥋and #tabletWeaving
#BehavioralEconomics
Boosts to find more of my folk appreciated!
Psychology is an administrative vocabulary masquerading as a natural science, and the most damning evidence is that the discipline best equipped to rescue it is quietly declining to speak its language. Thoughts?
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-zombie-factory?r=pvxh5
#philosophy #psychology #zombies #ethics #blog #substack #writing #critique #news #language #society #culture #power #instrumentation #evidence #podcast #thoughts
🥳 Launched!
🎮 The 2026 LifeLove Game Design Challenge
toxify: a video game design challenge about toxic masculinity, toxic relationships, toxic behavior, and the impact these have on us.
👥 Human-created games only!
📆 Register by March 23rd to participate.
Info, rules, and more at the contest website:
🧡 Boost to help us find games that will rid our culture of toxic attitudes & folks!
#toxic #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #gamejam #nonprofit #education #publichealth #socialmedia
#sociology #psychology
#fascism #prevention #noAI
@publichealth @edutooters @stopTDV @gamingagainstv
Problematic TikTok use correlates with social anxiety and daily cognitive errors
#psychology #socialmedia #neuroscience #cognitivescience #tiktok #addiction #mentalhealth
🧠🎮 DYK that having to pee might make you a more elite gamer?
Researchers found that the need to "hold it in" spills over into other parts of the #brain, leading to more patient, less impulsive decisions suitable for tough boss battles.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/having-to-pee-makes-you-better-at-video-games-weirdest-thing-podcast/
💁🏻♀️✨Do large animals take longer to pee? https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/animals-pee-science-research-video-scifri
#neuroscience #psychology #gaming #science #biology #research #videogames