Forgive me if this isn't the right subreddit. Recently, I noticed a friend who caught a cold being told "You're not sick" by someone else. When I was a child, my parents would often not believe my sister or me when we said we were sick, although my sister had this issue more than I did. Once it took me vomiting for them to believe. Also, when I worked in Japan as an English teacher, a common complaint of my colleagues was that people would show up at their homes to confirm that they were "really" sick. I was wondering if there was some kind of explanation for a phenomenon like this. Why would ..read more

I've been reading a recent paper entitled "The development of Tibetan children’s racial bias in empathy: The mediating role of ethnic identity and wrongfulness of ethnic intergroup bias." (https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/cdp0000651). At first I thought it was a really neat paper exploring the development of racial bias in children. But then things started getting weird. The results are *perfect* - I've never ran a study where you get results that neat. And the manipulations these guys were making were small (only changing the names of persons in the scenarios). It gets weirder. In the dis ..read more

I was reading about Shelby Hewitt, the social worker who posed as a traumatized teen in foster care and attended several high schools before getting caught. What is your theory on why she did it? https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-public-schools-fake-student-shelby-hewitt/ submitted by /u/hemithishyperthat [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I am a PhD student studying identity threats. I am nearly finished with a project identifying responses to threats to people's sense of caring, and I want to add a final field study. My idea is to have participants play a video game that has them care for something (e.g., a farm, the environment, a pet, a family) . The trick is that I need to be able to control the difficulty so that it quickly grows more difficult thereby priming the identity threat. Does anyone know a game like this, or are familiar with any studies that have used a similar manipulation? Please let me know if there is a bet ..read more

Hi, I'm writing up my PhD and wondered if anyone knew of any solid references for how to report ethnography analysis? submitted by /u/Fancy-Sprinkles-8713 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

My background is in social and political psychology, but in my day job I ended up TAing a neuroscience class and getting to give a guest lecture. I turned the guest lecture into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hp0vyLH6L4 submitted by /u/Political-psych-abby [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

"Here are the rules: Thou shalt not ever utter the word "IQ" in any professional or social context. You are a horrible, arrogant person if you think you're smarter than average. If you think part of why you struggle is because your IQ is too high for your job, you're a delusional narcissist. If you think you can't work with someone is because their IQ is too low for you to be able to explain to them the pertinent concept they need to be successful, you're a monster. If you think IQ is a real, tangible factor in workplace dynamics, you're wrong. It's not relevant and cannot be used to explain ..read more

I don't mean lying to cover up mistakes. I mean in a truly playful sense, like asking the new guy at the shop to check the blinker fluid level, or having your nephew run into the corner store for you and ask if they have chicken milk. Sometimes we play dumb and pretend not to know things that would seem odd. Like over Easter when my uncle insisted he hadn't got a text from me because he doesn't know how to text. So many humans do things like this, and I'm curious about the reasons why. Is there some long term benefit? Is it simply good fun and laughs? Should we actually not be doing this? Ple ..read more

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