Questions tagged [psychology]
Use this tag for questions about understanding, predicting, and changing the thoughts, emotions, and specifically psychological theories of behavior should use this tag. However, this excludes questions about specific claims, beliefs, or superstitions that would be better categorized under other, more specific tags, including behavior, brain, consciousness, superstition, esp, ghosts, religion, spirituality, energy, and meditation.
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Have 28% of US adults had "at least one intimate or romantic relationship with an AI"?
Therapist Dr. Michael J. Salas has a website which makes the claim:
28.16% of adults claim to have at least one intimate or romantic relationship with an AI.
Michael Salas, Artificial Romance: A ...
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Are conservatives happier than liberals?
A 2025 article by Nate Silver says that liberals tend to be less happy and have lower-rated self-reported mental health than conservatives:
A 2023 American Affairs article says liberal have higher ...
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Do negative interactions with AI make us worse at interacting with people?
There have been a number of articles from credible sources suggesting that negative interactions with AI change the way that we interact with others. In each of the quotes below, I have added my own ...
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Can people stop their heart from beating by using their mind? [duplicate]
I have watched the documentary Biofeedback: The Yoga of the West. Researcher Dr Elmer Green said that people can gain control over their involuntary nervous system like heartbeat by using ...
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Did Steven Pinker test (or propose testing) if ADHD patients could sit still for 5 minutes while in front of "6 legos and an over turned lamp"?
Harvard professor Steven Pinker proposed a study once where people with ADHD were told they would get $100 if they were able to sit still on a chair in a room for only 5 minutes. In front of them was ...
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Do most women enjoy sex?
The YouTube video by clinical psychologist, Dr. Whiten (Dr. Psych Mom) called "women do enjoy sex... in depth discussion about why you may not think so" makes the claim that most women enjoy ...
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Is Rapid-onset gender dysphoria real?
Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria. PLOS ONE describes ROGD as
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Rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) describes a ...
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Do most people like to talk about themselves?
There are numerous articles about people loving to talk about themselves.
However, my experience has been very different.
Is "everyone's favorite topic is themselves" a myth?
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Have 25% of all Christian Ex-Muslim converts received dreams or visions as a major factor in their conversion?
In an 2009 article, Why do Muslims come to Christ? Five case studies that underline the key factors as Living God in Christ, the living Word, and the living Body of Christ. by Salaam Corniche, there ...
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Do 1 in 4 of us experience mental health problems each year?
I have seen this quote before but today I received an internal company email with this quote.
The ratio is also cited on page 7 of this 2014 report by Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London:
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Is the serotonin theory of depression false?
A couple of weeks ago, this article was published on Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0
I am just a layman when it comes to this subject and it is therefore difficult for me to ...
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Do introverts and extroverts respond to dopamine and acetylcholine differently?
This Mind Brain Ed blog article is an example of one that quotes the book Quiet kids: Help your introverted child succeed in an extroverted world. by Christine Fonseca in claiming that introverts and ...
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Are US Marines deliberately kept under-supplied so that they would be more combat aggressive?
I watched a TV series named Generation Kill based on the experiences of an embedded reporter during the invasion of Iraq in the 2003.
The US Marines in the series often complain about lacking ...
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Is the story of the Fourth Cookie true?
This story of a psychology experiment was told as part of a Commencement Address by author Michael Lewis. It has been quoted in a number of places around the web.
They began by grabbing students, as ...
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Does Gestalt Therapy effectively treat substance abuse?
Gestalt Therapy is a form of psychotherapy. Based on several descriptions it seems to be vague and fringe.
A practicing psychotherapist told me:
It is anything but scientific. It was popular in the '...
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Did Coinstar add a delay and fake noises because people didn't believe a machine could count coins quickly?
I saw a post on Reddit claiming that Coinstar machines are extremely fast at counting coins, but that the company had to introduce a delay and fake noises to the machines because customers didn't ...
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Does fast feedback result in greater expertise?
There are swathes of blogs and books promoting the notion that we should seek the quickest possible feedback to develop ours skill. The most prominent example I can think of comes from Daniel Kahneman'...
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Did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle prank 12 men into fleeing their countries?
Purportedly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — creator and author of Sherlock Holmes series — sent a telegram to 12 men “…of great virtue and respected in society.” The telegram read “Flee! All has been ...
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Is the Dunning-Kruger effect reversed in Japan?
Wikipedia seems to claim so citing a single study:
The study "Divergent Consequences of Success and Failure in Japan and North America: An Investigation of Self-improving Motivations and Malleable ...
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Do video games lead to increased depression, anxiety and aggression?
Nicholas Kardaras is a addiction expert who was a professor at Stony Brook Medicine. In his 2016 NY Post article he claims that screen time is extremely harmful to children. The article intermingles ...
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Can John Gottman predict which couples will divorce with extremely high accuracy?
John Gottman (a prominent psychological researcher who has done extensive work on divorce prediction) has some very strong claims about his ability to predict divorce. The claim that led me to start ...
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Are Nobel laureates "at least 22 times more likely to partake as an amateur actor, dancer, magician or other type of performer"?
There was an opinion piece in the New York Times titled Do You Have to Be a Jerk to Be Great? in which David Brooks cites from a book called "Range" by David Epstein (emphasis added):
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Did depressed people far more accurately estimate how many monsters they killed in a video game?
In a Ted talk (YouTube), Andrew Solomon says
There was a study I particularly liked, in which a group of depressed and a group of non-depressed people were asked to play a video game for an hour, ...
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Does a "desirable difficulty" in reading font affect memory retention?
Sans Forgetica is a font designed using the principles of cognitive psychology to help you to better remember your study notes.
Sans Forgetica is more difficult to read than most typefaces – and that'...
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Does keeping a "gratitude journal" improve your life?
Is the practice of noting down a few things that you are grateful for each day really help you feel better?
A gratitude journal is a diary of things for which one is grateful. Gratitude journals are ...
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