OEDIPAL PANTIES.

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If you’re interested for courses (or just for personal interest, the first book is full of introductory psychology things!), send me a message and we can negotiate prices! PayPal only, please!

#psychology #sales

→ Psycops: The Rosenhan Experiment

psycops:

In 1973, a group of eight, healthy investigators (including Dr. David Rosenhan) entered several psychiatric institutions separately claiming they were hearing voices (saying words like “hollow” and “empty”). They were all immediately admitted into each hospital and diagnosed as schizophrenics.

After each investigator had been admitted, they all began to act perfectly normal. They acted normally with the staff and generally did not adhere to their “schizophrenia” labeling. Even so, because they had been labeled as “mentally ill”, the staff saw everything they did as being a symptom of their illness, even though they did not actually have an illness. The fake patients stayed for as little as a week to as long as two months, and upon release, all were given the label “Schizophrenic (in remmission)”.

The Rosenhan experiment helped to shed an ugly truth on mental health: Once someone is labeled with a certain illness, that label follows them around everywhere, even after they get better. It becomes a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy: If someone knows you have, say, BPD, then everything you do is seen as being a result of that. Not only this, but being labeled with a certain illness can actually make one act according to the label given to them. The stigma that goes along with being labeled “mentally ill” is one that dominants the lives of many patients, even after release.

You can read more on the Rosenhan experment

here.

#psychology #mental illness stigma #rosenhan #rosenhan experiment

pleatedjeans:

Depression Part 2 by Hyperbole and a Half is the most important thing you’ll read all day.

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→ The uninvestigated factors: Dimensions of personality and psychopathology in sex offenders

Understanding the relation between personality characteristics, psychopathology, and sexual offenses can contribute to developing more effective treatment interventions. Previous research with sex offenders has focused on general personality traits or inconsistently classified sex offenders based on psychopathology. It was hypothesized that combining personality and psychopathological traits can assist in understanding sex offenders. The current study evaluated 88 male sex offenders in a court-mandated outpatient treatment program utilizing the NEO-PI-R and the MMPI-2. Three clusters of child molesters were examined for differences in personality characteristics and number of offenses. A second-order principle axis factor (PAF) analysis of personality and psychopathology traits revealed three factors: Psychological Distress, Excitement-Seeking, and Social Desirability. The potential clinical utility of these dimensions in predicting treatment compliance is examined.

#IT'S ONLINE I AM EXCITE #tw sex offenders #psychology tag

crescentandpearlsonphi:

oedipalpanties:

The not-so-fun side of psychology

I would like to know the age range of your sample haha I was confused when it said age wasn’t correlated with height but that’s because I’m into child and adolescent psychology haha
Also, 17 is a pretty small sample size..
I’m such a nerd :) I love the statistics side of psychology

It’s just a personal thing I did for my small class of Exp Psych m students! They were university students so we had an age range if roughly 19-34 years olds (:

The not-so-fun side of psychology

#experimental psychology #correlation #well #it's a little bit fun #admit it

→ Psycops: Psychology Term of the Week: Confirmation bias

psycops:

The Confirmation bias is the tendency for us to choose or accept information that confirms what we already believe, and reject or ignore any evidence against it.

For example, if you’re writing a paper about the different sides to the euthanasia debate and you’re pro-euthanasia, you’re more likely to seek out articles that are pro-euthanasia than anti-euthanasia. Or, if you’re an pro-evolution theory atheist and you find yourself debating with someone who is pro-intelligent design, you’re less likely to take serious the information or evidence they give you when it’s presented to you. This also manifests itself in uncertain or ambiguos information. If an article has pros for both sides of an argument but says that evidence is “inconclusive”, you’re still more likely to point out that the side which you believe in is more heavily supported in the article.

The way out of this bias to heavily read and consider information that is opposite what your belief is. This lessens chance for overconfidence and helps expand knowledge on subjects.

(read more?)

#ptotw #psychology #cognitive science #confirmation bias #biases

psycops:

The Stanford Prison Experiment is probably one of the most notable hallmark unethical experiments you’ll ever encounter. Although it’s been long since condemned for its practice, it gives a great (but depressing) insight into human nature, much like the Milgram experiment before it.

You can read the layout of the experiment here.

Go check out the new group psychology blog I’m in, PsycOps!

Why being negative is good for your health: Pessimists are more likely to live longer

Those with a ‘darker outlook’ about the future end up healthier
Being ‘optimistic’ means greater risk of disability or death, research finds
Pessimists may ‘live more carefully’ says study from University of Erlang-Nuremberg in Germany

Read the full study here!

#psychology #pessimism #health

❝Based on a psychological study, a crush only lasts for a maximum of 4 months. If it exceeds, then you are already in love.❞

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I call BS, and I’ll tell you why:

I’m not sure how many of you read actual peer-reviewed journal articles, but those of you who do know that “crush” isn’t a very scientific word. In fact, as I look through the American Psychological Association’s database, every single article—except for one—use crush in the literal sense. These articles discuss “nerve crush” or “crush injury,” nothing remotely related to the what teenagers have in mind when they hear the word crush.

The one exception, an article written by Bowker, Spencer, Thomas, and Gyoerkoe (2012) does talk about the crush being referred to in the quote. However, the article only mentions that, based on their data, 56% of the adolescents they surveyed had at least one current other-sex crush. Another finding was that physical attractiveness, relational aggression, physical aggression, and popularity were significantly associated with other-sex crush scores. At no point in the study do the authors attempt to measure how long a crush lasts.

Which brings me to my third point. The concepts of crush and love, just like the concepts of happiness or sadness, are not always measured the same from study to study. Suppose you were asked to measure the amount of sadness of 5 people. How would you do that? You can’t just take a device and measure sadness the way you would measure temperature. You would first have to formulate an operational definition, or a definition that attempts to make the abstract word more concrete.

One operational definition of sadness could be “The amount of times a person cries during the day.” This definition enables you to measure something—the amount of times a person cries during the day—and label it as sadness. A different researcher may use a different operational definition of sadness, one which may or may not be better than the one used here. So to say that the words crush and love have the same exact meaning from study to study, or person to person, is not always correct. The subject gets a bit more technical from here, so I’ll leave you with the original point of this post: the quote is complete BS.

Reference:

Bowker, J.C., Spencer, S.V., Thomas, K.K., & Gyoerkoe, E.A. (2012). Having and being an other-sex crush during early adolescence. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111(4). 629-643.

(via badpsych)

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