immediately with page 9 giving me full thought processes. i think this quote in particular is an interesting take on psychology's definition of anxiety versus what we as a society agree on its definition. the thing that is puzzling me is the hand and caption for said hand... #TMITM #todaysanxiety
January 31, 2026 at 6:44 AM
immediately with page 9 giving me full thought processes. i think this quote in particular is an interesting take on psychology's definition of anxiety versus what we as a society agree on its definition. the thing that is puzzling me is the hand and caption for said hand... #TMITM #todaysanxiety
Worth noting that both commentators agreed with our core argument that evolutionary psychology's hypotheses are indeed falsifiable, but that this is a necessary but insufficient component of a good theory. We agree and discuss the field's other theoretical strengths.
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psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
January 30, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Worth noting that both commentators agreed with our core argument that evolutionary psychology's hypotheses are indeed falsifiable, but that this is a necessary but insufficient component of a good theory. We agree and discuss the field's other theoretical strengths.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Misconceptions pervade academia.
Jonason and Schmitt (2016) found that among academics the mean endorsement for the claims that “evolutionary psychology’s theories are unfalsifiable” was 2.89 & “assumptions are not testable” was 2.91 on a 5-point scale.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Jonason and Schmitt (2016) found that among academics the mean endorsement for the claims that “evolutionary psychology’s theories are unfalsifiable” was 2.89 & “assumptions are not testable” was 2.91 on a 5-point scale.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Misconceptions pervade academia.
Jonason and Schmitt (2016) found that among academics the mean endorsement for the claims that “evolutionary psychology’s theories are unfalsifiable” was 2.89 & “assumptions are not testable” was 2.91 on a 5-point scale.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Jonason and Schmitt (2016) found that among academics the mean endorsement for the claims that “evolutionary psychology’s theories are unfalsifiable” was 2.89 & “assumptions are not testable” was 2.91 on a 5-point scale.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(*also very cool that the most-frequent ad is structured around an interview with one of NSSR Psychology's alums – incidentally, the only department allowed to accept PhD applicants this cycle as TNS higher-ups move heaven and earth to destroy the rest of NSSR's constitutive programs 🙂)
January 28, 2026 at 10:02 PM
(*also very cool that the most-frequent ad is structured around an interview with one of NSSR Psychology's alums – incidentally, the only department allowed to accept PhD applicants this cycle as TNS higher-ups move heaven and earth to destroy the rest of NSSR's constitutive programs 🙂)
New Bullshitology post is up! bit.ly/4k942E7
This week, I talk about famous figures from psychology's past whose major contributions were later discovered to be fishy, if not fraudulent. Check it out when you get time!
This week, I talk about famous figures from psychology's past whose major contributions were later discovered to be fishy, if not fraudulent. Check it out when you get time!
January 28, 2026 at 9:20 PM
New Bullshitology post is up! bit.ly/4k942E7
This week, I talk about famous figures from psychology's past whose major contributions were later discovered to be fishy, if not fraudulent. Check it out when you get time!
This week, I talk about famous figures from psychology's past whose major contributions were later discovered to be fishy, if not fraudulent. Check it out when you get time!
It's a good one to get people reflecting on how fair it was at the time and whether it applies now. I don't find it especially accurate although it is helpful if where psychology's considered a science, if methods are only experiments, or if research only happens in universities.
January 28, 2026 at 4:09 PM
It's a good one to get people reflecting on how fair it was at the time and whether it applies now. I don't find it especially accurate although it is helpful if where psychology's considered a science, if methods are only experiments, or if research only happens in universities.
Open Access UCL Research: Male Depression: The Centre for Male Psychology's Position Statement on Identifying, Understanding, and Treating Men's Experiences of Depression discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Male Depression: The Centre for Male Psychology's Position Statement on Identifying, Understanding, and Treating Men's Experiences of Depression
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UCL Discovery
UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.
discovery.ucl.ac.uk
January 28, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Open Access UCL Research: Male Depression: The Centre for Male Psychology's Position Statement on Identifying, Understanding, and Treating Men's Experiences of Depression discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Psychology’s Latest Advice on Aging Well | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulf...
Psychology’s Latest Advice on Aging Well
Everyone would like to know the key to aging well, if not gracefully. A new publication from the American Psychological Association provides some great advice from the experts.
www.psychologytoday.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Psychology’s Latest Advice on Aging Well | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulf...
Psychology’s Latest Advice on Aging Well
via Psychology Today
Everyone would like to know the key to aging well, if not gracefully. A new publication from the American Psychological Association provides some great advice from the experts.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulf...
via Psychology Today
Everyone would like to know the key to aging well, if not gracefully. A new publication from the American Psychological Association provides some great advice from the experts.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulf...
January 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Psychology’s Latest Advice on Aging Well
via Psychology Today
Everyone would like to know the key to aging well, if not gracefully. A new publication from the American Psychological Association provides some great advice from the experts.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulf...
via Psychology Today
Everyone would like to know the key to aging well, if not gracefully. A new publication from the American Psychological Association provides some great advice from the experts.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulf...
6️⃣ Autoestima, autoimagem e constituição da identidade: um estudo com graduandos de psicologia / Self-esteem, self-image and identity construction: study with psychology’s undergraduate students
doi.org/10.17267/231...
doi.org/10.17267/231...
AUTOESTIMA, AUTOIMAGEM E CONSTITUIÇÃO DA IDENTIDADE: UM ESTUDO COM GRADUANDOS DE PSICOLOGIA
| Revista Psicologia, Diversidade e Saúde
doi.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:53 AM
6️⃣ Autoestima, autoimagem e constituição da identidade: um estudo com graduandos de psicologia / Self-esteem, self-image and identity construction: study with psychology’s undergraduate students
doi.org/10.17267/231...
doi.org/10.17267/231...
We're one week away from #PsychologyMonth!
Join us throughout February as we highlight the ways psychology is involved in our lives. Every day next month, we will release a new essay. podcast, or short paragraph about psychology's contributions. #ThisIsPsychology
Join us throughout February as we highlight the ways psychology is involved in our lives. Every day next month, we will release a new essay. podcast, or short paragraph about psychology's contributions. #ThisIsPsychology
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
We're one week away from #PsychologyMonth!
Join us throughout February as we highlight the ways psychology is involved in our lives. Every day next month, we will release a new essay. podcast, or short paragraph about psychology's contributions. #ThisIsPsychology
Join us throughout February as we highlight the ways psychology is involved in our lives. Every day next month, we will release a new essay. podcast, or short paragraph about psychology's contributions. #ThisIsPsychology
…und lest dieses Kapitel von Brian M. Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social aus seinem aktuellen Buch „Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism - How a Supposedly Woke Science Promotes Capitalism and Protects Privilege“ (liebe auch den Titel!)
The Psychologising of the Sick
For centuries, when a physical illness had no clear medical explanation, psychology filled the gap with psychogenic theories, suggesting the cause was mental. For example, stomach ulcers were long att...
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January 22, 2026 at 6:39 PM
…und lest dieses Kapitel von Brian M. Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social aus seinem aktuellen Buch „Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism - How a Supposedly Woke Science Promotes Capitalism and Protects Privilege“ (liebe auch den Titel!)
That’s very interesting to read about! Psychology’s approach is inevitably very much about the average of what people do, and so the individual quirks of people are very interesting but hard to study with psychology tools.
January 22, 2026 at 3:06 AM
That’s very interesting to read about! Psychology’s approach is inevitably very much about the average of what people do, and so the individual quirks of people are very interesting but hard to study with psychology tools.
Like, I’m sorry, but my dad sending me emails like this has felt like such an aberration, rather than a feature, of the field of psychology. Reading Deleuze + Guattari has helped me see how terribly in line with psychology’s place in the socius such repression through paranoiac decoding is
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Like, I’m sorry, but my dad sending me emails like this has felt like such an aberration, rather than a feature, of the field of psychology. Reading Deleuze + Guattari has helped me see how terribly in line with psychology’s place in the socius such repression through paranoiac decoding is
She also discusses the turn to psychotropic pharmacology in psychiatry and makes a case for self psychology’s conception of the importance of empathy as a means to ensure that such treatment remains sufficiently psychodynamic.
January 21, 2026 at 3:40 PM
She also discusses the turn to psychotropic pharmacology in psychiatry and makes a case for self psychology’s conception of the importance of empathy as a means to ensure that such treatment remains sufficiently psychodynamic.
Book review by Dr Elke Hausmann @drelke.bsky.social : Psychology's Quiet Conservatism: How a Supposedly Woke Science Promotes Capitalism and Protect Privilege
bjgplife.com/book-review-...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #LongCovid
bjgplife.com/book-review-...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #LongCovid
January 21, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Book review by Dr Elke Hausmann @drelke.bsky.social : Psychology's Quiet Conservatism: How a Supposedly Woke Science Promotes Capitalism and Protect Privilege
bjgplife.com/book-review-...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #LongCovid
bjgplife.com/book-review-...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #LongCovid
Unburdened by psychology’s rigid definition of “personality,” these researchers from @Anthropic are actually studying the personality of LLMs, which can be tested and re-tested with any methods (true open science). Also, arXiv frees this paper from lengthy reviews!
www.anthropic.com/research/ass...
www.anthropic.com/research/ass...
The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Unburdened by psychology’s rigid definition of “personality,” these researchers from @Anthropic are actually studying the personality of LLMs, which can be tested and re-tested with any methods (true open science). Also, arXiv frees this paper from lengthy reviews!
www.anthropic.com/research/ass...
www.anthropic.com/research/ass...
Nåväl, nu ska jag iaf läsa den här, efter tips från @nklsaltrmrk.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Nåväl, nu ska jag iaf läsa den här, efter tips från @nklsaltrmrk.bsky.social
On MLK Day, we reflect on rehabilitation psychology’s responsibility to advance equity, access, and justice. #RP2026 features sessions on race, structural disadvantage, and rehab outcomes—highlighting psychologists’ role in equity-centered practice. details via link in bio.
January 19, 2026 at 4:44 PM
On MLK Day, we reflect on rehabilitation psychology’s responsibility to advance equity, access, and justice. #RP2026 features sessions on race, structural disadvantage, and rehab outcomes—highlighting psychologists’ role in equity-centered practice. details via link in bio.
BJGPLife: Book review: Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism: How a Supposedly Woke Science Promotes Capitalism and Protects Privilege
bjgplife.com/book-re...
#GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine
bjgplife.com/book-re...
#GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine
January 17, 2026 at 8:36 AM
BJGPLife: Book review: Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism: How a Supposedly Woke Science Promotes Capitalism and Protects Privilege
bjgplife.com/book-re...
#GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine
bjgplife.com/book-re...
#GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine
It was my Christmas present.
January 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
It was my Christmas present.
Thank you. I’ll have a look at that this evening - and indeed anything else that you can point me to would be very welcome.
Have you got a copy of ‘Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism’ yet. That’s a good read.
Have you got a copy of ‘Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism’ yet. That’s a good read.
January 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Thank you. I’ll have a look at that this evening - and indeed anything else that you can point me to would be very welcome.
Have you got a copy of ‘Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism’ yet. That’s a good read.
Have you got a copy of ‘Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism’ yet. That’s a good read.
Very well said!
"Only by exploring psychology's origins and studying its development can we see clearly the nature of psychology today. Knowledge of history brings order to disorder and imposes meaning on what appears to be chaos, putting the past into perspective to explain the present."
"Only by exploring psychology's origins and studying its development can we see clearly the nature of psychology today. Knowledge of history brings order to disorder and imposes meaning on what appears to be chaos, putting the past into perspective to explain the present."
Today in Psychology (12th January 1861), James Mark Baldwin was born. A pioneering developmental psychologist, Baldwin was one of the first writers in the field to recognize the importance of cognitive motor processes.
www.all-about-psychology.com/history-of-p...
#psychology #PsychologyFacts
www.all-about-psychology.com/history-of-p...
#psychology #PsychologyFacts
January 12, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Very well said!
"Only by exploring psychology's origins and studying its development can we see clearly the nature of psychology today. Knowledge of history brings order to disorder and imposes meaning on what appears to be chaos, putting the past into perspective to explain the present."
"Only by exploring psychology's origins and studying its development can we see clearly the nature of psychology today. Knowledge of history brings order to disorder and imposes meaning on what appears to be chaos, putting the past into perspective to explain the present."
Sam Harris said:-
“_One of modern psychology’s best-established insights is also one of its most consequential: We don’t perceive reality directly, but through mental filters that often warp our judgments in ways that cause needless suffering._"
“_One of modern psychology’s best-established insights is also one of its most consequential: We don’t perceive reality directly, but through mental filters that often warp our judgments in ways that cause needless suffering._"
January 10, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Sam Harris said:-
“_One of modern psychology’s best-established insights is also one of its most consequential: We don’t perceive reality directly, but through mental filters that often warp our judgments in ways that cause needless suffering._"
“_One of modern psychology’s best-established insights is also one of its most consequential: We don’t perceive reality directly, but through mental filters that often warp our judgments in ways that cause needless suffering._"
Psychology’s Greatest Misses (Part 1/3)
A tour of your favorite wrong ideas.
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:46 AM