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Mark Ryan
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Psychotherapist, humanist, avid reader, gym goer, husband... basically, all the good stuff.
www.riseandgrowtherapy.co.uk
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Use of technology massively impacts relationships, and needs open discussion between partners.
May 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Sadness and depression are not the same, knowing the difference can really help you through a
tough time.
May 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Comparison of pain doesn’t help anyone…
March 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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trans rights forever
January 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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January 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I’m just going to leave this here as a reminder that you can complete all the activity tasks and still feel lazy…there’s no winning 🤷🏻‍♂️😆
December 31, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.
December 31, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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Nothing like a beautiful painting to lift the spirits 😀
December 14, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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December 7, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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December 8, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go

-- Herman Hesse
December 8, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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Know Your Worth.
Know Your Beauty.
December 4, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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a “couple” means two, a “few” means three, and “several” means four but no more than nine. “many” means more than a third but fewer than half and “most” means more than three-fourths. i am so glad this is not controversial and we could easily reach a consensus on this.
December 3, 2024 at 3:36 AM
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Vague Psychology Concepts

"The vagueness of psychological concepts is often considered a bug that needs to be fixed. In contrast, we argue that it is not a bug, it is a feature."

Hutmacher & Franz (2024): doi.org/10.1037/amp0...

#Psychology #MetaSci #PhilSci 🧪
Psychology is currently facing a multilayered crisis stemming from the fact that the results of many psychological studies cannot be replicated (replication crisis), that psychological research has neglected cross-cultural and cross-temporal variation (universality crisis), and that many psychological theories are ill-developed and underspecified (theory crisis). In the present article, we use ideas derived from debates in theoretical and philosophical psychology as a basis for responding to all three crises. In short, we claim that psychological concepts are inherently vague in the sense that their meanings and the rules for their application are indeterminate. This does not imply that psychological concepts are ineffable or lack meaning. It implies, however, that hoping to arrive at a finite set of necessary and sufficient criteria that define psychological concepts once and for all is an illusion. From this, we deduce four recommendations for responding to psychology’s crises. First, we argue that the replication crisis could be approached by paying more attention to the context conditions under which psychological realities and knowledge about these realities are being created. Second, we claim that the universality crisis can be alleviated by putting more effort into exploring variability across times and cultures. Third, we contend that acknowledging the language dependence of psychological research could be a fruitful way of addressing the theory crisis. Last, we show that embracing theoretical and methodological pluralism would be an antidote against psychology’s crises in general. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
December 1, 2024 at 7:02 AM
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I still use the numbers from Lost to play the lotto
November 30, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Good morning, Bluesky. There is beauty in the world, if you look for it.
A rose, sprinkled with snow.
November 21, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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November 28, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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I appreciate your constructive criticism
Man stabbing another man through the top of his head
November 27, 2024 at 3:44 PM