How much stress is too much?
A psychiatrist explains the links between toxic stress and poor health − and how to get help:
https://theconversation.com/how-much-stress-is-too-much-a-psychiatrist-explains-the-links-between-toxic-stress-and-poor-health-and-how-to-get-help-222245
How many hours a day do you spend staring at a screen? How much do these black mirrors dominate our attention?
**Boost for reach** 🚀
Any screen counts; computer monitor, laptop, phone, TV, smartwatch, timetable at the train station, etc.
Count total time spent with eyeballs pointed at it.
Follow me if you want to see more cool polls, and maybe some cute cat pictures.
#poll #media #tech #technology #psychology #mobile #computer #laptop #internet #web #webdev #programming
Nice review of the evidence for banning phones in schools. This reviews huge studies across numerous countries. The big takeaway: there’s no effect on children’s outcomes. According to the latest evidence, cell phone bans don’t work.
#Psychology #SocialMedia #smartphones #phoneBans #childmentalhealth #mentalhealth
Austrian Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was born #OTD in 1856.
He is considered the father of psychoanalysis. Freud's main contributions lie in his theories of the unconscious mind, the mechanisms of repression, and the role of sexuality in human psychology, which he discussed in major works like The Interpretation of Dreams, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, and Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.
Books by Sigmund Freud at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/391
It's Pride month, and now that we're 55 years after Stonewall, it can be awfully easy to forget why it's all such a big deal--and what Pride exists to do.
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we're diving into the lifesaving importance of Pride and the Prejudice that makes it so necessary. Grab a rainbow flag, show yourself a little love, and join us as we talk about internalized self-stigma and shame.
#Trans #TransJoy #MtF #Enby #FtM #Psychology
https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/pride-and-prejudice
"We know an object only by acting on it and transforming it."
Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget was born #OTD in 1896.
He is known for his work in developmental psychology and epistemology through what he called genetic epistemology. His work sheds light on "intelligence", understood as a specific form of the adaptation of living organisms to their environment, on the evolutionary stages of intelligence in children, and on his theory of learning.
最常见的操纵：关于心理操纵、洗脑、影响/诱导 ——
列表-3 链接更新完毕：https://start.me/p/nRBzO9/iyp-3
该列表的主题是媒体/宣传、心理操纵、欺骗/诱导/影响，社交工程。
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影响公众意识的操纵手段非常之多：从日常生活中广泛使用的简单方法，到专业信息战中使用的高度专业化的方法，应有尽有。
一些最为常见的操纵手段，甚至更难识别。
比如，
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第一种方法可以叫它 “按需泄漏”。
具体是这样的：
各种媒体都开始播报据称从某个“秘密但很可信的来源”获得的信息。
这样做往往正是为了研究公众舆论对某个秘密计划的新项目的反应。
如果公众舆论的反应是积极的或中性的，那么这个新项目就会得到实施，而不必担心这些行动会导致社会抵抗。
如果舆论的反应是负面的，那么就有可能 "驳斥"耸人听闻的消息，宣布其为 “假新闻/无稽之谈"，然后组织更多的信息对舆论产生影响，以改变民众对计划实施的项目的态度。
似乎最近几天里中国内地就有近似的动态（未经详细研究，不做具体深入）。
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另一种方法叫 “三明治”，也很流行，就是把目标政客的致胜信息放在一个从根本上改变其本质的环境里。
使用“三明治”的方法多种多样。比如：
(a) "毒药夹心三明治” —— 将对候选人有利的观点夹在否定的引言和否定的结论之间。这种叙述方式会中和正面的意见，使其变得隐形。
b) "糖心三明治"是"毒药夹心”的反向用法：在正面的引言和结论之间加入负面的观点，以塑造政治活动主体“总体正面”的形象。
当你有情绪的时候，你的眼睛会主动去抓取符合既有情绪的部分，而忽略掉有矛盾冲突的其他部分。这就是受众受影响的过程。
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#INFOWAR #psychological manipulation #psychology #communications #心理操纵 #宣传 #心理学
Some wisdom from a Japanese gamer. As a designer I thought about it in the context of UX. But, really, it can be applied to most any challenge in life.
Austrian psychologist Susanna Rubinstein was born #OTD in 1847.
She went on to study psychology & German literature at the University of Prague, in the spring of 1870 & then at Leipzig University 3 years later. After being denied admission to the doctoral program in Basel, Switzerland, she enrolled at the University of Bern and there gained her Ph.D. in 1874 in psychology and German literature. She became then the first woman to receive a doctorate in Bern.
Excited to learn that our side project "News source bias and sentiment on social media" has been accepted for publication in #PLoS_One !
Here's a link to a preprint version -- key points follow in the next post ( #affectivescience , #psychology , #media , #news 1/3) :
American philosopher and psychologist Mary Whiton Calkins died #OTD in 1930.
Calkins' work informed theory and research of memory, dreams and the self. In 1903, Calkins was the twelfth in a listing of fifty psychologists with the most merit, chosen by her peers. Calkins was refused a Ph.D. by Harvard University because of her gender.
Linguagens Declarativas e o Nosso Cérebro
https://gmgall.net/blog/linguagens-declarativas-e-o-nosso-cerebro/
“its power as a starter in crowd psychology comes from Mackay’s insistence on humanising the follies he describes. No macroeconomic constructs here – just good old greed, optimism, superstition & cunning plans”
—Charles Mackay (1814–1889) was born #OTD, 27 March – best remembered today for his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
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#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #psychology #masspsychology #economics #stockmarket #bubbles
✨ Join us on June 4 & 5, 2025 for the 7th Weizenbaum Conference “Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies” ✨
👉 🔗 Register now: https://www.weizenbaum-conference.de/
#Democracy #Empowerment #Community #Power #DigitalResearch #WIConf25 #research #science #socialscience #humanities #economy #psychology
@freieuniversitaet @WZB_Berlin @FraunhoferFOKUS @unipotsdam @zevedi @CAISnrw @BerlinUAlliance
Some people are chaos-seekers – and those people like Elon Musk, support political violence and share false information online.
A new study finds people under 40, those with less education, and individuals who pay the least attention to politics score highest on this "need for chaos" dimension.
Listen to Your Sleeping Dreams! - Tuning In
#psychology #health #art #MentalHealth
So the lesson from my story is, listen to your dreams! What parts of you might you have left behind, things that make your heart sing and that help you connect to yourself and others? If you don’t know, but you nevertheless feel a kind of nagging emptiness in living that you can’t quite define, the clues you need may already be in your own dreams, if you can learn to listen.
http://www.ajschuler.com/blog/listen-to-you-dreams
The Limitations of Professional Psychology - Tuning In
This is just an overview, a summary, of my thoughts from over three decades of study and practice in positive psychology to describe some limitations of contemporary professional psychology. What do you think? What have I missed? I’m eager for any comments, disagreements, or other perspectives.
#Psychology #MentalHealth #Healthcare #Politics #culture
http://www.ajschuler.com/blog/the-limitations-of-professional-psychology
Chances are we all have suffered or know someone who is suffering from depression. It’s natural to want to help those we care about, but choosing the right approach is important. Claudia Giolitti-Wright, a psychotherapist in New York, cringes when clients with depression report back on what their friends or family members inevitably say to them: “But you have so much to be grateful for!” It is, she believes, the No. 1 worst way to respond when someone opens up about their mental-health struggles. Read more from @time:
#Culture #Psychology #MentalHealth #Friendship #Communication
#bookReview #psychology #neuroscience #automata #engineering #technology #bookstodon
my Book review of Braitenberg’s Vehicles Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/book-review-braitenberg-vehicles/
I connect this to #lisp #programming for our upcoming (48 hours from tooting) interview with @ksaj about cluster and swarm-intelligence computing, featuring lisp.
If you have adjacent thoughts or questions you might like Ksaj and I (and the usual crowd) to consider, please do discuss them here.
