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You unhinged fucking idiot. Being anti-porn is its own political stance and can be included with any other political views.

Tell me, which of these references is 'alt right' (whatever the fuck that is):
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
https://www.verywellmind.com/h...
https://mentherapytoronto.com/...
https://www.gq.com/story/10-re...
https://www.feministcurrent.co...
https://www.bustle.com/article...
https://www.netmums.com/coffee...

Yep.

How a high-fat diet can help the brain work better

Pot certainly is not making them into aggressive drivers; less stressed and worried by risks.

Marijuana is a depressant. It dulls the senses and slows reaction times. In some people, marijuana has been shown to induce symptoms of paranoia as well as other conditions which can impair judgement.

The results were clear: THC caused paranoid thoughts. Half of those given THC experienced paranoia, compared with 30% of the placebo group: that is, one in five had an increase in paranoia that was directly attributable to the THC. (Interestingly, the placebo produced extraordinary effects in certain individuals. They were convinced they were stoned, and acted accordingly. Because at the time we didn’t know who had been given the drug, we assumed they were high too.)

THC also produced other unsettling psychological effects, such as anxiety, worry, lowered mood, and negative thoughts about the self. Short-term memory was impaired. And the THC sparked a range of what psychologists call “anomalous experiences”: sounds seemed louder than usual and colours brighter; thoughts appeared to echo in the individuals’ minds; and time seemed to be distorted.

Or prove that heavy metal music, or video games cause violence.

Does the Koran cause violence?

Video games increase aggression in children.
Trump causes hate crimes to increase.
And there always a fight at a heavy metal concert but never at Barry Manillow concert - just say'in.

Stupid people are very susceptible to suggestion no matter where they get it.

No, we walked ten miles up hill both ways. It's fine, keep your head in the sand.

https://www.psychologytoday.co...
https://www.news-medical.net/h...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...

"White" is fiercely guarded in many areas. It's only recently that people like George Zimmerman would be considered white.

I have a Hispanic mother and a white father. All of my mother's older siblings were born in Mexico and her parents never spoke English. I cannot speak Spanish, but I don't really look "white". I'm often asked if I'm Asian or Hispanic.

I would not identify as "white" because I spent a large part of my childhood being told by my white peers that I was not white. Who knows what sort of rural backwards rumors followed Warren during her childhood.

You are correct that is the dictionary definition but a lot of people read more into it than that (yeah PT is pretty trash)
https://www.psychologytoday.co...

So your motto is "go with the women, they're just as bad as the men"?

I believe in equality, women are just as capable as scamming investors out of capital as men have been.

True. Reading the article, what she did was manage to convince people that the basis of success was not ability, but eccentricity. She also had an ability to schmooze people. That is not a genitals specific thing.

It is true, that she is quite physically attractive. This cannot be totally disregarded. https://www.psychologytoday.co...

But probably a detail that is a telling thing is that her father was an executive at Enron. So she is no stranger to corruption in business.

Funny, Belief is an Emotion that is driven by your 'lizard brain'

The Left supports Rational approaches that actively seek to reduce the impact of emotions.

Just so ya know...

This is incorrect. The strongest correlation for violent abusers is that they themselves were violently abused.

Logical failure. If A is correlated with B, that doesn't prove that A is not correlated with C.

Also, mothers are about twice as likely as fathers to abuse their children, and households without an adult male are more likely to be abusive. So blaming child abuse on "masculinity" is unjustified.

40% of abused children were abused by their mothers
20% were abused by their fathers.
20% were abused by both parents
20% were abused by someone other than a parent.

Who are the perpetrators of child abuse.

... When you have no expertise whatsoever ..., all rational souls recognize that. As Dunning and Kruger put it, "most people have no trouble identifying their inability to translate Slovenian proverbs, reconstruct a V-8 engine, or diagnose acute disseminated encephalomyelitis." A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Those who have the slightest bit of experience think they know it all

While they reference Trump, it think it applies to almost everyone with an internet connection. Trust me on this. I know a lot.

Not even a traines PhD psychologist will do that.

Uh, no. You are confused by the so-called "Goldwater Rule" which is an ethical guideline adopted by a large professional organization of psychologists after some made notable public diagnoses of Barry Goldwater. Don't conflate that guideline with it being impossible to make an evaluation of public behaviors. Many psychologists have already evaluated the public behaviors of people like Trump and come to the same conclusion.

But you seem to be a hardcore ostrich, so I'm done crushing your Dunning-Kruger pathology. Enjoy your delusions of competence.

The data contradicts your belief. Military enlistees are better educated, have higher IQs, and come from wealthier families than their peers in the general population.

Entrapment schemes like the one described in TFA are by their very definition designed to trap people who are behaving normally and reasonably. If there's any selection bias going on, it'd be on the part of the scammers. They might deliberately target military personnel because the potential penalty for being entrapped is much greater for military personnel (prison + dishonorable discharge) than for civilians (only prison), making them more likely to pay the extortion fee.

A lot of us beg to differ. Trump -- and Republicans eager to help him -- are a huge embarrassment. It's a real shit-stain on our ideals and to every reasonable and intelligent person. You don't see so many of those on the Republican side, only primitives reacting to fear. https://www.psychologytoday.co...

The purpose of a business is to maximize profits, not to "survive".

This is just tall people expecting short people to subsidize them.

Tall guys get all the chicks, they are paid more, and now they are trying to take away the one thing that works in favor of short people: cramped airline seats.

Short people need to stand up for their rights ... and if nobody notices, they need to stand on a stool.

The narcissist's playbook is standard, one edict is "always accuse others of possessing your own undesirable attributes". This is done in order to help maintain the narcissists fictitious idealized image they have created of themselves.

Quoting further from that rather well written article, "an idealized self-image, which they project in order to avoid feeling (and being seen as) the real, disenfranchised, wounded self." It goes on. Not something that a narcissist would be at all comfortable reading. And if that is you, then just don't bother reading it. The consensus opinion is, there is no cure. However, control is possible so that there is such a thing as a functional narcissist who learns to behave according to societal norms, even if it is just an act.

Psychology today refers to it as extroversion.

It's symmetrical that way (introversion - extroversion) to reflect opposite meanings in the subject of human personality.

The Jung thing references a German text. It's not bad Latin any more than extrude or external are.

You know how naming variables is important? That the variable name itself is supposed to convey meaning? Intro- and extro- are more likely to be linked - thus conveying meaning - than 'intro' and 'extra':

int intro;
int extro;

vs.

int intro;
int extra;

The symmetry is logical and conveys meaning. Thus extroversion is the superior spelling.

This was an interesting article on how most discussions of procrastination stigmatize the action of putting tasks off, even in cases where doing so causes no harm. Studies seem to indicate that a large fraction of the population "procrastinates" while still successfully completing tasks. These people may have no problems with their lives beyond the stress of people who want them to do things sooner because those people can't stand to see people work at the last minute. Treating all procrastinators as if they "have a problem" probably causes more harm than it prevents.

https://www.psychologytoday.co...

Gambling can be harmful and from what I see of the local casinos, it seems to particularly affect Asians.

That's not just a stereotype. It's a well-known psychological topic.

Veganism has rotted your brain and destroyed your reading comprehension*. You did not mention a single source of vitamin B12 in your post. None of those things are natural sources of B12. Not a single one of them.

Let's hear it from the US National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements: "Vitamin B12 is naturally found in animal products, including fish, meat, poultry, eggs, milk, and milk products. Vitamin B12 is generally not present in plant foods" (https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminB12-HealthProfessional/#h3).

*Not surprising considering a vegan diet is so low in readily bio-available nutrients necessary for good brain function including vitamin B12 (cf. https://www.psychologytoday.co...)

Nitpicking a past study which nobody has the guts to attempt to properly recreate (or improve upon.) Many real actual atrocities which rhyme with the experiment is all we need to realize that environmental conditions GREATLY influence human behavior.

Um...let me try different words. The reason nobody has the "guts" to recreate this experiment, or use it as a foundation are as follows:
https://www.psychologytoday.co...

1. The study was fake.
2. The control group was fake.
3. The students were paid actors.
4. They were COACHED on expected behavior during the study.
5. The paid actors then:
          -Psychologically abused the inmates as they were coached and encouraged to do.
          -Rebelled / Rioted as the news told them prisoners do.

After 6 days, the "game" wasn't fun for the prisoners anymore, they were tired of the psychological abuse, and Zimbardo ended the study, claiming to have proven something.

All he proved is that 18-22 year old psychology students getting paid $15 a day in 1970 will do what they're told to do. At least for 6 days.

The participants acted towards expected behaviors to reinforce the study's foregone conclusion at the coaching of Zimbardo.

It wasn't a scientific study.

You can read about it here. https://www.psychologytoday.co...

It appears that it has indeed been invalidated.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201310/why-zimbardo-s-prison-experiment-isn-t-in-my-textbook

Summary: the players knew the expected results and acted to achieve them.

Every word in your post is wrong. The trend of kids failing to launch has little or nothing to do with economics and everything to do with lazy parenting and kids who just don't have any desire for independence.

The first part of your post is at least close to correct, but your whole tirade about lazy parents and young adults is simply ignorant. There are many reasons why more kids are living with their parents and it is true that economics is not the only reason. Still a significant reason, with student loans growing rapidly and many essentials (housing, health care, etc) rising above inflation for decades, but not the only one. The simple fact that employed young adults are far less likely to live at home than unemployed ones shows economics is a large factor.

This article summarizes many of them. Young adults waiting longer to get married is one factor. But the most interesting one is that young adults simply have a much better relationship with their parents today than they did 30 years ago. One finding was that in 1986 half of parents reported speaking with their grown child in the past week, whereas in 2008 87% had. Many young adults don't feel the need to move out because they have a friendlier relationship than previous generations did.

My wife and her two siblings lived at home for around five years each after college. Not because of a failure to launch, as each had degrees and were employed in their chosen fields. They did it because it helped spring board their financial lives by saving for a full 20% down payment on their first home. My father in law took 75% of their take home pay for "rent" and put it in a savings account. So not every situation where kids live with their parents is a bad one.

I was talking about freedom to go out and play with other kids outside or away from adults, not to sit alone in their house or attend supervised structured activities. And yes, you can quite easily find tons of data to support this.
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
Just to start. A few seconds on Google will back up every word in my post.

I was talking about freedom to go out and play with other kids outside or away from adults, not to sit alone in their house or attend supervised structured activities. And yes, you can quite easily find tons of data to support this.
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
Just to start. A few seconds on Google will back up every word in my post.

It is more accurate to say they are no worse. At least the harm they cause to humanity is a few steps removed compared to the direct harm caused by Big Oil and Big Pharma.

There is direct harm to humanity - it makes us depressed and angry. There is tons of research and the link is clear.

Citations:

https://www.psychologytoday.co... https://www.independent.co.uk/...

This is a sample of helicopter parenting. It is not good for the kid (don't learn how to evaluate risk or to take risk), it is also not good for the parent (never learn to trust their kid).

There are other effects described here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
https://www.psychologytoday.co...

This is a sample of helicopter parenting. It is not good for the kid (don't learn how to evaluate risk or to take risk), it is also not good for the parent (never learn to trust their kid).

There are other effects described here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
https://www.psychologytoday.co...

That's a good question. The best I see so far from a quick search is satisfaction survey results posted on the website with a lot of "very helpful" results ( https://bullies2buddies.com/do... ) and a decade-old pilot study that shows negligible results from a brief training ( https://www.psychologytoday.co... ). One confounding factor obvious from the pilot study is that kids undergoing the Bullies to Buddies training are less likely to report incidents -- meaning ideally the evaluation should be done other than by self-reports. I agree it would be good to have more recent and more extensive studies of the Bullies to Buddies program. You are right to point to AA as an example of a social movement not being backed by evidence and perhaps pushing out other better options for many people.

Ultimately, there are quite a few "knobs" one could theoretically tweak to reduce bullying in schools, including:
* educate the Victim (Bullies to Buddies or a different approach)
* educate the Bully (most bully training materials)
* educate the Bystander (also, most bully training materials)
* educate the Adults -- Teachers/Administrators/Parents
* general custom emotion coaching for every kid (like say done at the Albany Free School http://www.albanyfreeschool.or... ),
* make it possible for the victim to walk away (e.g. more alternative education options including freeschooling and homeschooling)
* make the environment more interesting and less stressful so kids have many other things to do than taunt each other
* change the nature of the schooling system and teaching so it does not itself model authotarianism/bullying e.g. John Taylor Gatto's writings like (http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=11375)
* de-emphasize competition and promote cooperation (like Alfie Kohn suggests https://www.alfiekohn.org/cont... ) or pursue other ways of reducing needless stress in school like eliminating homework ( https://www.alfiekohn.org/dwh/ ) and grades ( https://www.alfiekohn.org/arti... )
* improve nutrition for everyone ("Omega-3, junk food and the link between violence and what we eat (Research with British and US offenders suggests nutritional deficiencies may play a key role in aggressive behavior" https://www.theguardian.com/po... )
* reduce the stress on families by progressive economics (better-paying jobs, basic income, universal health insurance, bugger tax credits to families with children, and so on)
* other?

As the old saying goes, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results."

I'll just leave this here https://www.psychologytoday.co...

As multiple women told me, "women don't know what they want and they won't stop pestering you until they get it". Maybe that was it?

Wow - Flamebait? This joke has an element of truth, which might be why it got blasted.

A huge problem with the pairing interactions between men and women is that in general, then male asks for the interaction, and the woman accepts or rejects.

I watched a very interesctin lecture by a man talking to women on why many women seem to pick the "Chads" of the world, aggressive handsome men who are self absorbed, and not men who would be considered good for long term relationships.

He used the rule of thirds. A third of men will never approach a woman, a third might, but are reticent about it, and a third are the aggressive sort.

The first group is obvious - no go. The second group might, but have a tendency to be friend zoned. The agressive guys have no problem with approaching women, and can be quite charming about it.

So women after a while expect aggression, and the guys in the second group get friend zoned, mainly because they are too timid, and probably for evolutionary reasons, the women respond to the more aggressive and charming men. I emphasize evolutionary because https://www.psychologytoday.co...

I'm really bad at this? You linked to a deflection from the author and vendor of the system. Here's why it actually doesn't disprove the problems pointed out in the propublica article, it merely tries to reframe them in a way that looks less damning.

I mean, it should be obvious that something is wrong when the counterpoint basically boils down to "we're discriminating against people in a way that turns out to be statistically correct overall, therefore it's not wrong." So much for treating people like individuals!

How can you even aspire to achieve colorblindness (or as I like to call it, "babby's first attempt at not being a racist asshat through pretending that different ethnicities and cultures with histories aren't a thing") if you're willing to justify discrimination by painting whole ethnic groups with one broad brush? In your previous post you casually brushed away the legacy of centuries of slavery and segregation, can't you see that this thinking is sending you down a bad path?

It's not about ability, it's about race. I think you know you're full of crap because you don't seem to have read the ProPublica article about the criminal sentencing program which also suffers from racial biases. It has nothing to do with what skills happen to be commonly found in what ethnic groups, it has to do with programs making wildly different decisions between people who have very similar relevant data when only race proxy information is significantly different. People who are arguing in good faith don't ignore information and harp on about strawman points like that.

Although your shameless use of textbook "model minority" arguments and colorblindness suggests that you could indeed be utterly clueless, mindlessly supporting scientific racism through sheer ignorance.

But then you also suggest that race "isn't why people are poor or rich" right in the face of a history of slavery and systematic oppression of black people primarily for the benefit of white people. It's hard to be that wrong by accident, suggesting darker intent.

Well, in "non-heathy" environments, belief in God is reportedly correlated to happiness:

https://www.psychologytoday.co...

Atheism is a religion in exactly the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby, i.e. it isn't.
This link, for example goes into better than I could...
https://www.psychologytoday.co...

... conservative ... not feel safe ...

I have and continue to struggle with chronic depression, including extended periods of suicidal ideation. To be frank, my own experience sounds closer to your own (in as much as such a brief description can tell me) - I am more familiar with a constant, extended period of suicidal 'desire' than I am with short lived, but perhaps more acute urges.

I am deeply sympathetic to your own experience and while I expect that there's a degree of commonality in what we and others go through, I don't expect that my own experiences necessarily reflect those of others. I was careful to state 'many' and not all and go on to stress that simply removing guns will not stop everyone who is suicidal. Perhaps I overstated the case, but it's based on studies and reports like this;

Suicide, Guns, and Public Policy
and less formally (although it has no links to the studies it presumably drawn on)
School Shootings and Gun Control: A Focus on Suicide

I am not sure that easy access to a firearm would have made much of a difference in my own experience, nor from the sound of it in yours - but I've seen this same information from various sources for some time, and can only conclude that for some people it can and will make a difference.

Experiments performed on subjects who had the corpus callosum (the connection between hemispheres of the brain) severed, sometimes to treat chronic epilepsy, suggest that once the human brain is effectively divided in two, consciousness is also divided between the left & right hemispheres. The result is two distinct perspectives and sets of understanding observable within one body, each controlling their respective side of the body, the two sides sometimes disagreeing or fighting each other. This challenges the idea that consciousness exists as an indivisible 'soul', a supernatural phenomenon existing outside of and independent from the matter that makes up the brain. https://www.psychologytoday.co...

There is something called the Backfire Effect. In short, the more factual information you give to someone pointing how/where they're wrong, the more strident in their viewpoint they become.

There is a more fundamental issue here; one that is well described in the book The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart.

As the Amazon summary says "Over the past three decades, we [Americans] have been choosing the neighborhood (and church and news show) compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs. The result is a country that has become so polarized, so ideologically inbred that people don't know and can't understand those who live a few miles away."

Living and working in communities of exclusively like-minded people tends to reinforce beliefs (and make them more extreme) over time. Confirmation bias becomes ingrained, and the willingness to even consider an alternative viewpoint diminishes.

In such an environment, rational argument is useless. Inconvenient evidence is simply ignored. Sadly, this is not just an American phenomenon. I've seen similar trends emerging in the UK in recent years.

1. Is waterboarding torture?
2. Has waterboarding ever extracted useful information?
3. What great harm does waterboarding do to those performing it? Please provide some factual info, not just your opinion

1) Yes
2) No
3) See below

http://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/20...

https://www.psychologytoday.co...

https://www.law.utah.edu/effec...

"In 1986, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton interviewed Nazi doctors who participated in human experimentation and mass killings. Lifton concluded that after years of exposure, many of the doctors experienced psychological damage similar in intensity to that of their victims. Anxiety, intrusive traumatic memories, and impaired cognitive and social functioning were all common consequences."

"While writers and publishers deserve fair compensation, " But not their great grand-children.

Exactly.

Pray tell, what to do about the impending impending human/computer convergence - The Singularity, when you don't die, you're still around and you kinda ARE your own great grandchild?

Plant your brain in a new body? Clone yourself with DNA? How old fashioned, move on up to The Cloud and use CloneZilla, snapshots, or just start yourself up (!!) another Docker Personality Instance. Gives a who new meaning to schizophrenia or to Dissociative identity disorder.

At that point money will stop being the in-game comparison metric, it'll change to how big you are. (In bytes.) Hell, corporations will end up being People while People won't be.

Gender disphoria is a recognized medical condition.

And they only stopped thinking of homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1987 https://www.psychologytoday.co...

In body integrity identity disorder (BIID), people feel like their arms and legs should be amputated.

In the future where we can actually fix human brains, should medical treatment alter the brain to accept two arms and two legs, or should we chop off perfectly healthy and functional limbs because the brain is malformed and that's "the way the patient wants it"?

Gender disphoria is a recognized medical condition.

And they only stopped thinking of homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1987 https://www.psychologytoday.co...

AmiMoJo, why don't you try linking to claims made actual scientists, rather than journalists?!??

Here is a comprehensive scientific evaluation of the factual points made in the Google Memo:

https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-google-memo-what-does-the-research-say-about-gender-differences/

The science is generally in agreement with Damore, and certainly far from "dubious". Here is an article at Psychology Today that makes similar claims:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/why-brilliant-girls-tend-favor-non-stem-careers

Corporations are psychotic people.

Yeah whatever, no one is legally obliged to act morally, only legally.

Corporations are psychotic people.

Part of creimer's personality disorder is a very strong defense mechanism; flight into fantasy. If he thinks there are IT jobs that pay 20K$, then he's doing amazing at 50K$, despite the evidence that it's not.

https://www.psychologytoday.co...

" Preference for fantasy as a defense mechanism over reality considerations. Painful events in childhood often lead to suppression, dissociation and varying degrees of retreat into fantasy processes. These habit patterns become addictive and long lasting."

creimer has a disassociative personality disorder. Without serious intervention, he will never change this pattern.

Of course, there are more disorders with creimer's personality, but it's exhausting just thinking about it.

There has been plenty of research showing that if companies were indiviuals, they would be classed as psychopaths (or is it sociopaths?)

For example,

"If corporations are indeed "persons," their mental condition can accurately be described as pathological. Corporations have no innate moral impulses, and in fact they exist solely for the purpose of making money. As such, these "persons" are systemically driven to do whatever is necessary to increase revenues and profits, with no regard for ethical issues that might nag real people." Psychology Today

Makes sense to me.

-Marc