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Sep 15, 2021 · Key points. A well-known experiment by psychologist David Rosenhan challenged the validity of psychiatric diagnoses. Mental illness and abnormal psychology are fluid concepts and change over time....
Jul 26, 2022 · Key points. People with an aversive personality engage in a variety of aversive behaviors, even though they know they're in the wrong. New research identifies the key traits that allow those...
Apr 3, 2020 · People on the periphery of their environment often have surprising strengths, including creativity. What’s more, weirdos can develop ways to calm their social anxiety, break into the in-crowd...
Summary. Psychology has a WEIRD problem. It is overly reliant on participants from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. Over the last decade this problem has come to be widely acknowledged, yet there has been little progress toward making psychology more diverse.
Feb 28, 2018 · But according to clinical psychologist Avram Holmes of Yale University, abnormal behavior isn’t necessarily weird or bad or indicative of mental illness, because there is no absolute...
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Dec 5, 2018 · There are no easy answers, and there’s clearly a lot of variation between individuals, but here we shine some evidence-based light on the matter through 10 dispiriting findings that reveal the darker and less impressive aspects of human nature: We view minorities and vulnerable people as less than human.
Apr 12, 2019 · First, there’s omnipotence: when someone feels so aggrandized and entitled that they believe the rules of decent behavior don’t apply to them. Second, consider cultural numbness: when others play...
