Men will literally spend their evenings gluing wood scraps together rather than go to therapy...
Entry: 2024-04-25 16:28:26.511859+02 The Man Who Killed Google Search by Dan Lyke comments 0
Ed Zitron: The Man Who Killed Google Search. TLDR: They took the ex-McKinsey guy who ran Yahoo! search into the ground and let him degrade search so that people would spend more time looking at ads.
Hacker News thread, linked to because it's rare to see that many comments about a Google personality, with nobody stepping up to defend him.
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Entry: 2024-03-15 02:28:04.871462+01 Reasoning with children works by Dan Lyke comments 0
Associations between 11 parental discipline behaviours and child outcomes across 60 countries
Conclusions: Psychological and physical aggression were disadvantageous for children's socioemotional development across countries. Only verbal reasoning was associated with positive child socioemotional development. No form of psychological aggression or physical aggression benefited child socioemotional development in any country. Greater emphasis should be dedicated to reducing parental use of psychological and physical aggression across cultural contexts.
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058439.
Research Brief: Is Your Child Misbehaving? Try Reasoning With Them
These results are consistent with a recent study of U.S. families that found that young children who receive harsh physical discipline, such as spanking, are more likely to exhibit aggressive, impulsive, or antisocial behaviors. Researchers following American mothers and their children from birth to age 9 found that children who were spanked had higher levels of these “externalizing behavior problems” at later ages—with the effects more consistent and longer lasting among families facing economic hardship.
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Entry: 2024-01-19 20:20:11.081075+01 Don't do open plan offices by Dan Lyke comments 0
Consistent with previous reviews, open-plan workplace designs were found to be negatively associated with health, satisfaction, and productivity. Significantly, very few positive effects were found throughout the entire review, with not a single study measuring productivity finding a positive effect. Furthermore, the empirical evidence does not support the anecdotal claims of increased collaboration and communication between open-plan office workers. ... While open-plan workplace designs may offer many financial benefits for management, these appear to be offset by the intangible costs associated with the negative effects on workers’ health, satisfaction, and productivity.
https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020988869
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Entry: 2023-12-08 18:35:03.274448+01 Ya know I sometimes wonder about the by Dan Lyke comments 0
Ya know, I sometimes wonder about the legitimacy of the practice of psychology, and the deep history of pseudoscience and scammery associated with that profession...
And then I see that the APA is supporting KOSA, and I stop wondering.
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Entry: 2023-12-06 18:56:55.098575+01 it is important to channel it into something useful by Dan Lyke comments 0
Kyiv psychologist suggests angry Ukrainians take out their frustration by building fire bombs
Olha Koba told The New York Times — in a piece about hate for Russia and its president — that anger and frustration are normal emotions among Ukrainians right now, and they should try to use that anger toward something productive.
"Anger and hate in this situation is a normal reaction and important to validate," Koba, a psychologist from Kyiv, told the Times.
"But it is important to channel it into something useful," she said, according to the Times, "such as making incendiary bombs out of empty bottles."
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Entry: 2023-10-06 22:11:20.455112+02 the future of Captcha by Dan Lyke comments 0
This observation on what it means to be human, and how the future of distinguishing human from "AI" will likely be measured by the ability to transgress, has been making the rounds recently: @sadclowncentral on Tumblr:
for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the “question only a human can answer” which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.
luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.
if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?
And I think it's worth adding @mhoye@mastodon.social's observation that:
I wish I could convey to you the psychological swoop of remembering that there is a whole section of the first Terminator movie where Kyle Reese is teaching Sarah Connor how to make pipe bombs and how differently that will land once you've read this.
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Entry: 2023-09-10 17:18:45.287977+02 Life fading by meuon comments 0
am sadly listening to a friend, reading aloud from a book, who was an excellent reader.. fade away. The artifacts, pauses, pacing, repeats, and stutters are hard for me to listen to. Sure, he's 70+, and it's considered normal as we get older.
But I also spent a lot of time in speech therapy as a young man. It's triggering. It hurts my brain in ways I can't explain and it wants to fall back into those habits. Which makes me not want to listen to him, and that's sad.
And makes me realize, as I fade into the end of good life, I'll probably do/have the same issues.
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Entry: 2023-06-26 18:31:46.184313+02 55 by Dan Lyke comments 0
Copied over from Facebook, rather than changing the framing:
It's my annual "get a place for people to comment so my timeline remains usable tomorrow" post... So, yeah, June 26th this year is my 55th journey around this particular star. I've kinda gotten over celebrating a particular day, rather than making them all special, but it's a good reminder to take stock and retarget as necessary.
This time around I'm pushing some of my personal boundaries by trying to be even more outspoken about improving the city around me, whether that's working with neighbors on traffic safety or helping organize larger forums to try to help Petaluma navigate its next decades (I'm typing this in between emails about a forum to explore a proposed downtown zoning overlay).
Voice lessons have become their own thing. When I started them it was to support the square dance calling, now I feel like beyond the aesthetics of my voice, I'm getting a lot of value out of working on diving into my feelings around the lyrics, and learning how to express them in ways that people around me interpret in the same way that I mean it. I have long known that... the best metaphor I've found is that I express emotions with an accent; I don't process emotional content from others in ways that they expect, and they don't get from me what I'm feeling, and singing is getting me deep into finding ways to consciously explore that channel.
I'm gradually easing back into square dancing and calling. Need to get back to someone in the east bay about what a Saturday mid-day calling gig might look like, and the pressure is building to restart something here in Petaluma. But for now I'm filling in for area callers, and seem to be getting good feedback for what I'm doing, so it's a good chance to get up and hide behind the mic.
Haven't been on the bike in a while, and haven't been running much, most of my exercise has been walking. I could use more of that, but it's a matter of what I can squeeze in when.
Work is fun, I see a lot of value in the product I'm working on. I'm weighing the general product direction vs what I use, and struggling with that a bit, but mostly I really like what, with whom, and when I'm working on. I look forward to the week, and it's hard to complain about that.
And when I'm not engaged in one of those things, I'm, yeah, in the workshop making sawdust. Having the back yard feel pretty close to finished is amazing. The house projects are here, along with all sorts of fun diversions, and I'm looking forward to learning more about luthier work as a friend using the shop gets further along in his guitar building project, and on whatever else pops up along the way that could be fun to do.
Currently listening to Tom Waits — Ol' 55
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Entry: 2023-06-16 21:07:01.803807+02 atheists hiding their non-belief by Dan Lyke comments 3
Study shows many American atheists hide their non-belief
Abbott recruited 600 atheist participants from throughout the U.S. — 300 rural-residing, 300 women-identifying — who provided data on both overt discrimination and microaggressions they have experienced because of their non-belief. She also learned about participants’ psychological distress and well-being, as well as their strengths.
So biased to vulnerable people in hostile environments, but still.
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Entry: 2023-05-20 00:24:57.852032+02 Pollution & mental illness by Dan Lyke comments 0
I like a lot of the points raised in Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head — Decades of biological research haven’t improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain., but not enough to recommend reading it. It's a review of two books, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness and Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, and I'm torn between "oh, that looks interesting", and being even more depressed about the current state of psychiatry and psychology.
But the MeFi thread has a comment from Mr Visible with a whole bunch of resources on the links between pollution and mental illness, and that I had to save for future reference.
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Entry: 2023-04-19 17:26:30.705406+02 Dominion v. Fox by Dan Lyke comments 0
The details of the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network settlement are starting to come out. $¾B seems like a slap on the wrist, but it's not clear that Dominion would have gotten more in a trial. Hopefully some of the other outstanding lawsuits over Fox's lies are gonna extract more.
This is just a place to hang a couple of toots: RT CartyBoston @CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net
"I wanted Fox to apologize! On the air!"
That was never going to happen. Welcome to the team:
Link is to European Child Adolescent Psychiatry: Justice and rejection sensitivity in children and adolescents with ADHD symptoms doi: 10.1007/s00787-014-0560-9
toot from M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows@c.im suggesting that the terms of the settlement look very good for Dominion (which, I think, also suggests that Fox was afraid of more discovery).
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Entry: 2023-03-24 18:08:08.282297+01 Trans links OTD by Dan Lyke comments 5
Say you’re in a room with 400 ppl. 36 don’t have health insurance. 48 live in poverty. 85 are illiterate. 90 have untreated mental illnesses. And everyday, at least 1 person is shot. But 2 are trans so you decide ruining their lives is a priority. That is what’s happening rn
Most trans adults say transitioning made them more satisfied with their lives:
Many have been harassed or verbally abused. They’ve been kicked out of their homes, denied health care and accosted in bathrooms. A quarter have been physically attacked, and about 1 in 5 have been fired or lost out on a promotion because of their gender identity. They are more than twice as likely as the population at large to have experienced serious mental health struggles such as depression.
Yet most trans adults say transitioning has made them more satisfied with their lives.
Which may also explain the amazingly low regret rate on surgery: If someone gets to that point, they've gotten past social transitioning, probably been through several years of hormone therapy, legal transitioning, so years of struggle and barriers before surgery even becomes an option.
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Entry: 2023-03-21 19:31:08.656374+01 Loyal workers and exploitation by Dan Lyke comments 0
Not exactly news, and I think there are some deeper questions to be answered here about what occurs long-term, but: Managers Exploit Loyal Workers Over Less Committed Colleagues
Companies want loyal workers, and there is a ton of research showing that loyal workers provide all sorts of positive benefits to companies,” said Matthew Stanley, Ph.D., the lead researcher on the new paper and postdoctoral researcher at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. “But it seems like managers are apt to target them for exploitative practices.”
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104442
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Entry: 2023-03-08 17:53:32.778305+01 Data Sharing by Dan Lyke comments 0
Pluralistic: VW wouldn't locate kidnapped child because his mother didn't pay for find-my-car subscription. My sister had similar issues when her truck was stolen, but there's a deeper thing here: VW is selling that location data for marketing purposes.
And, of course, online therapy company Better Help was selling patient data to marketers, specifically “used and revealed consumers’ email addresses, IP addresses, and health questionnaire information to Facebook, Snapchat, Criteo, and Pinterest for advertising purposes.”
The FTC also says that the company gave customer service agents false scripts to try and reassure users that it wasn’t sharing personally identifiable or personal health information after a February 2020 report from Jezebel exposed some of its practices. The commission’s complaint accuses the company of misleading customers by putting a HIPAA seal on its website, despite the fact that “no government agency or other third party reviewed [BetterHelp]’s information practices for compliance with HIPAA, let alone determined that the practices met the requirements of HIPAA.”
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Entry: 2022-11-14 17:30:36.63078+01 Anti-BLM culture and obesity by Dan Lyke comments 0
Backlash to racial justice movements may boost risk of high BMI, obesity
Hyun Joon Park, a recent Penn State graduate student in psychology and now an assistant professor of psychology at Connecticut College, said the findings suggest that being exposed to negative sentiments toward race-related issues doesn’t affect just mental health but physical health, as well.
Exposure to anti-Black Lives Matter movement and obesity of the Black population
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114265
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Entry: 2022-09-24 16:20:20.98405+02 Gender-Affirming Surgery by Dan Lyke comments 0
JAMA Surgery: Association Between Gender-Affirming Surgeries and Mental Health Outcomes
JAMA Surg. 2021;156(7):611-618. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2021.0952
Via https://twitter.com/chipfoxx/status/1572942217660239872
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Entry: 2022-08-23 18:51:31.1844+02 ABA & autism by Dan Lyke comments 0
Parents and clinicians say private equity’s profit fixation is short-changing kids with autism. On the ways that ABA as a treatment for autism is being used to extract dollars from parents, with questionable returns.
Via https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/1559610330933694465
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Entry: 2022-08-11 17:58:56.553135+02 ...as healthy relationship standards increase... by Dan Lyke comments 0
Psychology Today: The Rise of Lonely, Single Men Dating apps and a drastically changing relationship landscape
Key points
- Dating opportunities for heterosexual men are diminishing as healthy relationship standards increase.
- ...
(Emphasis mine)
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Entry: 2022-05-10 05:05:02.444118+02 Men will literally spend their evenings by Dan Lyke comments 0
Men will literally spend their evenings gluing wood scraps together rather than go to therapy...
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Entry: 2022-04-26 02:55:02.052464+02 When people suggest that I take by Dan Lyke comments 0
When people suggest that I take psychological profiling tests, I think about ways to dispose of bodies ☑always ☐sometimes ☐never
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Entry: 2022-04-13 16:56:39.235443+02 YouTuber tries to give people botulism by Dan Lyke comments 0
So apparently Bon Appetit sponsors this Instagram personality and YouTuber who, back in February, posted a video of water-bath canning seafood. The outrage over the botulism fears was large enough that they took the video down, but apparently they still give the dude a platform: It's botulism with Brad Leone: Bon Appetit is testing health standards.
Via a bunch of places, but here's the MeFi link.
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Entry: 2022-01-21 18:50:02.651712+01 problem with giving your software a by Dan Lyke comments 0
The problem with giving your software a personality is that you might give your software a personality that sucks.
"I can feel Clippy DNA here."
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Entry: 2021-11-29 19:39:23.288733+01 "a woman full of emotions" by Dan Lyke comments 0
R&B singer Ari Lennox held for disturbance at Amsterdam airport
"Our unit found a woman full of emotions, that wouldn't calm down," spokesman Robert van Kapel said. "That's why she had to be taken into custody."
Via https://twitter.com/ashokkbanker/status/1465386309350871042
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Entry: 2021-11-24 01:50:06.562035+01 "The attachment state of some Fluid data by Dan Lyke comments 0
"The attachment state of some Fluid data..." Not sure whether I'm reading about psychology, safer sex, or computer science. Also, why do we have to create new words for concepts that have been enshrined in computing for years? Is it just stupid branding?
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Entry: 2021-11-14 18:59:59.408471+01 how CBT harmed me by Dan Lyke comments 0
How CBT Harmed Me: The Interview That the New York Times Erased.
Charlene is currently taking the training for a life-coaching/therapy-ish regimen that... I have trouble reconciling with how the world works. On the other hand, I've been the practice dummy for one of her classmates (and a friend) and it was kinda cool, and I'm having my "this makes no sense" meet up with my "yeah, but I feel better afterwards".
And then I continually see how broken the whole field of psychology is, how even the evidence for things that seem to be evidence-based, like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, is pretty sketch.
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Entry: 2021-11-10 21:15:02.849331+01 Facebook by Dan Lyke comments 0
Facebook, out there protecting the readers of Floof Therapy from the spam that is my cat.
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Entry: 2021-10-26 18:55:03.213353+02 There can be no such thing as by Dan Lyke comments 0
"There can be no such thing as psychological warfare…if you develop a psychological weapon sufficiently that it is destructive to any potential enemy, it will destroy you with the enemy…" - Frank Herbert, talking about Dune, but maybe foreseeing Facebook?
From the interview linked in Dune’s Not a White Savior Narrative. But It’s Complicated. Transcript of the interview at http://sinanvural.com/seksek/inien/tvd/tvd2.htm
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Entry: 2021-09-24 01:55:47.603932+02 Mushrooms and Depression by Dan Lyke comments 0
JAMA Psychiatry: Effects of Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy on Major Depressive Disorder — A Randomized Clinical Trial doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.3285
Conclusions and Relevance Findings suggest that psilocybin with therapy is efficacious in treating MDD, thus extending the results of previous studies of this intervention in patients with cancer and depression and of a nonrandomized study in patients with treatment-resistant depression.
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Entry: 2021-09-20 22:32:31.210446+02 John Nolte blames liberals for unvaccinated conservatives by Dan Lyke comments 0
I had read summaries of this that I thought were satirizing the original, but no: John Nolte of Breitbart: Howard Stern Proves Democrats Want Unvaccinated Trump Voters Dead
Do you want to know why I think Howard Stern is going full-monster with his mockery of three fellow human beings who died of the coronavirus? Because leftists like Stern and CNNLOL and Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Anthony Fauci are deliberately looking to manipulate Trump supporters into not getting vaccinated.
Nothing else makes sense to me.
In a country where elections are decided on razor-thin margins, does it not benefit one side if their opponents simply drop dead?
If I wanted to use reverse psychology to convince people not to get a life-saving vaccination, I would do exactly what Stern and the left are doing… I would bully and taunt and mock and ridicule you for not getting vaccinated, knowing the human response would be, Hey, fuck you, I’m never getting vaccinated!
It goes on, but the "now look what you made me do" is pretty astounding here.
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Entry: 2021-05-24 18:31:21.169871+02 Non-replicable studies cited more by Dan Lyke comments 0
Research findings that are probably wrong cited far more than robust ones, study finds
The study in Science Advances is the latest to highlight the “replication crisis” where results, mostly in social science and medicine, fail to hold up when other researchers try to repeat experiments. Following an influential paper in 2005 titled Why most published research findings are false, three major projects have found replication rates as low as 39% in psychology journals, 61% in economics journals, and 62% in social science studies published in the Nature and Science, two of the most prestigious journals in the world.
Nonreplicable publications are cited more than replicable ones Marta Serra-Garcia and Uri Gneezy DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd1705
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Entry: 2021-05-22 17:30:31.467291+02 Citations and Replication by Dan Lyke comments 0
Nonreplicable publications are cited more than replicable ones Marta Serra-Garcia and Uri Gneezy in Science Advances 21 May 2021: Vol. 7, no. 21, eabd1705 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd1705
Abstract We use publicly available data to show that published papers in top psychology, economics, and general interest journals that fail to replicate are cited more than those that replicate. This difference in citation does not change after the publication of the failure to replicate. Only 12% of postreplication citations of nonreplicable findings acknowledge the replication failure. Existing evidence also shows that experts predict well which papers will be replicated. Given this prediction, why are nonreplicable papers accepted for publication in the first place? A possible answer is that the review team faces a trade-off. When the results are more “interesting,” they apply lower standards regarding their reproducibility.
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Entry: 2021-04-29 19:42:40.789324+02 Coffee Drinking & Brain Changes by Dan Lyke comments 0
Regular Coffee Drinking Tied to Functional Brain Changes
Using fMRI, researchers found that connectivity in the somatosensory and limbic resting states was reduced in regular coffee drinkers (CDs) in comparison with non–coffee drinkers (NCDs), suggesting an association between coffee drinking and improved motor control and alertness. In addition, dynamic activity in several cerebellar and subcortical areas of the brain was increased among CDs, consistent with an improved ability to focus.
The study is Nature Molecular Psychiatry: Habitual coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain functional connectivity
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01075-4
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Entry: 2021-04-23 02:02:14.312301+02 New Psychedelic Resources by Dan Lyke comments 0
Looks like we're seeing a resurgence in exploring psychedelics: Two separate independent resources launching:
Psychable Includes Thousands of Psychedelic Practitioners Listings as Interest in Uses of Psychedelics as Medicine Grows
Psychedelic Experience launches new website to help navigate the world of psychedelics
<span class="xn-location">NEW YORK</span>, <span class="xn-chron">April 22, 2021</span> /PRNewswire/ -- Saturday <span class="xn-chron">24th April 2021</span>, Psychedelic Experience will be launching a new website to help aspiring and experienced psychonauts traverse the ever-changing landscape of psychedelics.
>Inspired by the psychedelic renaissance and the rapid developments in legalization around the world, Psychedelic Experience, or PEx, has recently overhauled its web services. PEx will offer users an engaging, community-fueled resource to help them better understand psychedelics and to discover theia wide variety of safe and peer-reviewed organizations, retreat centers, guides, shamans, and much more.
(Both pointed out to me by the amazing Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz, who is doing some amazing things with Google Spreadsheets and data amalgamation and you should go throw her Patreon a few bucks.)
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Entry: 2021-04-07 19:22:18.400567+02 New studies on kink by Dan Lyke comments 0
The study, “The Psychology of Kink: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study Investigating the Roles of Sensation Seeking and Coping Style in BDSM-Related Interests“, was authored by Alana Schuerwegen, Wim Huys, Violette Coppens, Nele De Neef, Josée Henckens, Kris Goethals, and Manuel Morrens.
The study, “The Psychology of Kink: a Survey Study into the Relationships of Trauma and Attachment Style with BDSM Interests“, was authored by Stephan Ten Brink, Violette Coppens, Wim Huys, and Manuel Morrens
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Entry: 2021-02-24 17:38:19.224838+01 Headlights by Dan Lyke comments 0
PsyPost: New psychology study shows how erect nipples can alter perceptions of women
New research suggests that men — but not women — perceive nipple erection in women as a signal of sexual arousal. But the study, published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, found that both genders project positive emotions onto women with visibly erect nipples, compared to the same women without visibly erect nipples.
To determine whether female nipple erection is perceived as a sign of sexual arousal or interest, male and female participants were asked to rate photos of real women with and without salient nipple erection on a series of 16 emotional and physiological states, including positive, negative, and sexually aroused states. Nipple erection salience was rated by independent raters, and faces in photos were obscured to prevent discerning emotional states from facial cues. Men clearly projected more sexy and positive emotions onto the stimuli when the stimuli displayed erect nipples. Whereas women did project more positive emotions with erect nipples, they did not differ in their expression of sexy. We also observed that men’s self-ratings of sexy and positive emotions were the same as their ratings of the stimuli. Women, however, reported significantly less sexy and positive emotions for themselves relative to the stimuli. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000244
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Entry: 2020-12-07 19:21:49.679162+01 Psychological Experiments by Dan Lyke comments 0
Up-Front: Yes, this is a dig at the history of psychology as a discipline, but it's also praise that the discipline is learning and changing.
Charlene's doing some study on psychology, taking some classes, a lot of reading, and I mentioned something about how I thought the consensus in modern psychology was that reliving traumatic experiences was generally just reinforcing the negative impacts, and she said she'd like to find more, so I went and dug through a few papers, and...
You know, it's fairly easy to throw digs at medicine, to point out that up into the 1990s, except for trauma care, you were generally better off without medical intervention.
Evidence-based medicine is a relatively new invention, and has brought some amazing changes in understanding...
Well, yeah: A lot of the practices of psychology of the 1980s and 1990s have been, in the twenty-naughts and twenty teens, been found to probably have been actively harmful. I mean, forget the casual harms of the era of Freud and Jung preying on bored Vienna housewives, like seriously reinforcing the shit out of traumatic experiences in awful ways harmful. Sometimes it's amazing how long a discipline can go without someone calling bullshit.
So I posted this to Facebook, and it spawned some good discussion, and then this morning I see this come across my Twitter feed:
The Onion: Report: Majority Of Psychological Experiments Conducted In 1970s Just Crimes
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Entry: 2020-12-04 18:41:24.372112+01 COVID-19 information & news sources by Dan Lyke comments 0
As described in the “Materials and Methods” section, participants were also asked follow up questions about the specific news sources they frequently use and we examined whether the use of these specific sources is related to COVID-19 knowledge and prejudice. To do so, we calculated t-tests to compare people who frequently used each of the sources (i.e., CNN, Fox News, Facebook, Twitter, National Public Radio [NPR], and the New York Times) to people who did not use these sources to determine if consuming each source of media impacted knowledge and prejudice related to COVID-19.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.560828
Via Study links regular use of Fox News, Twitter, and Facebook to reduced knowledge about COVID-19
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Entry: 2020-11-25 15:47:30.12412+01 Two COVID-19 studies by Dan Lyke comments 0
Two studies that I haven't read, just want to hang a place to search for them:
A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Hydroxychloroquine for Prevention of Covid-19 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2021801
No significant differences were observed in clinical status or overall mortality between patients treated with convalescent plasma and those who received placebo. (PlasmAr ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04383535.)
Postexposure therapy with hydroxychloroquine did not prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection or symptomatic Covid-19 in healthy persons exposed to a PCR-positive case patient. (Funded by the crowdfunding campaign YoMeCorono and others; BCN-PEP-CoV2 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04304053.)
A Randomized Trial of Convalescent Plasma in Covid-19 Severe Pneumonia DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2031304
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Entry: 2020-10-29 19:56:26.850456+01 Implications of Eye Tracking by Dan Lyke comments 0
Abstract. Technologies to measure gaze direction and pupil reactivity havebecome efficient, cheap, and compact and are finding increasing use in many fields,including gaming, marketing, driver safety, military, and healthcare. Besides offeing numerous useful applications, the rapidly expanding technology raises serious privacy concerns. Through the lens of advanced data analytics, gaze patterns can reveal much more information than a user wishes and expects to give away. Drawing from a broad range of scientific disciplines, this paper provides a structured overview of personal data that can be inferred from recorded eye activities. Our analysis of the literature shows that eye tracking data may implicitly contain information about a user’s biometric identity, gender, age, ethnicity, body weight, personality traits, drug consumption habits, emotional state, skills and abilities, fears,interests, and sexual preferences. Certain eye tracking measures may even reveal specific cognitive processes and can be used to diagnose various physical and mental health conditions. By portraying the richness and sensitivity of gaze data,this paper provides an important basis for consumer education, privacy impact assessments, and further research into the societal implications of eye tracking.
Via RT Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill
Visual behaviour can reveal people's sex, age, ethnicity, personality traits, drug-consumption habits, emotions, fears, skills, interests, sexual preferences, and physical and mental health. Eye-tracking may be the closest thing we have to mind-reading. https://link.springer.com/cont....1007%2F978-3-030-42504-3_15.pdf
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Entry: 2020-08-18 01:26:17.704929+02 Porn and sexual aggression: inversely correlated by Dan Lyke comments 0
Study: Pornography does not cause violent sex crimes
Pornography and Sexual Aggression: Can Meta-Analysis Find a Link? is based on research by Chris Ferguson, a professor of psychology at Stetson University, and Richard Hartley, chair of UTSA’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. The authors conducted meta-analytic research and examined more than 50 correlational, experimental and population studies that explored the association between pornography and sexual aggression during the past 40 years.
So many good pull-quotes:
“During the past few years many states have declared that pornography is a public health crisis,” said Ferguson. “Dr. Hartley and I were curious to see if evidence could support such claims—at least in regard to sexual aggression—or whether politicians were mistaking moral stances for science. Our evidence suggests that policymakers should examine other causes of sexual aggression and that beliefs about pornography may be driven more by methodological mistakes than sound science.”
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“I hope that Dr. Hartley and I can point out some of the widespread problems in much of the research as well as the culture of this field, whereas some scholars appear to be too quick to try and find evidence for effects,” said Ferguson, who led the study. “We need more preregistered, transparent research and a field that is looking to falsify hypotheses and not entirely in confirmatory mode because it feels morally right.”
And, from the abstract of the paper:
... Population studies suggested that increased availability of pornography is associated with reduced sexual aggression at the population level. ...
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