psychology

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2024-10-30 @ 11.20.25 ∈ In English

Highly Predictable Interactions
We should have unpredictable experiences. But our lives are greatly enhanced when interactions are highly predictable.
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2024-10-10 @ 12.27.30 ∈ In English

Carefully exposing children to more misinformation can make them better fact-checkers, study suggests
Researchers found that the children who were the most diligent about fact-checking […] claims were also the ones who saw more false claims […] earlier in the study. Meanwhile, those who had more reliable environments with fewer false claims earlier in the study did almost no fact-checking.
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2024-09-30 @ 15.21.14 ∈ Suomeksi

Joonas Konstigin kolumni: Miehet ovat ihanaistuneet
Miesten välisessä kommunikaatiossa on tapahtunut pieni sydämellinen vallankumous, kirjoittaa Konstig
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2024-09-25 @ 12.27.59 ∈ In English

Fussy eating in children largely down to genetics, research shows
Pickiness ‘not down to parenting’ and peaks at seven years old, according to study
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2024-09-14 @ 13.22.30 ∈ In English

(From 2023; Medium.com, eww)

AI and the American Smile
Why do you smile the way you do? A silly question, of course, since it’s only “natural” to smile the way you do, isn’t it? It’s common sense. How else would someone smile? As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple.
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2024-06-23 @ 16.09.10 ∈ In English

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How Cults Use Language to Control | Otherwords
If there’s one thing cult leaders do, it’s talk. A LOT. Language is an integral part of how cults keep their members bonded, isolated and obedient.
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2024-04-03 @ 16.18.15 ∈ In English

I wonder if this is (at least partly) explans different people’s different video framerate prefences (30 vs 60 fps).

I spy with my speedy eye – scientists discover speed of visual perception ranges widely in humans
Some participants in the experiment indicated they saw the light as completely still when it was in fact flashing about 35 times per second, while others were still able to perceive the flashing at rates of over 60 times per second.
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2024-03-17 @ 12.32.59 ∈ Suomeksi

Suomalaiskoulujen opettajat nöyryyttävät ja pilkkaavat oppilaita – Johtaa oppilaan aggressiiviseen käytökseen
Laura Liukko vietti kuusi viikkoa kouluissa pääkaupunkiseudulla. Hän huomasi, että oppilaan häiritsevä käytös oli usein seurausta opettajan toiminnasta.
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2024-02-27 @ 13.02.33 ∈ In English

Center of the Universe
I read something on the internet one recent evening that made a brief and tangential reference to a serial killer preying on Marines in Southern California in the 1970s and early ’80s. Having been stationed at Camp Pendleton, I thought, “How come I never heard about this?”