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Scientific Frontline @sflorg@mastodon.social · 3d ago
Dogs possess specific neural mechanisms that allow them to process and distinguish between various human facial expressions, such as happiness, fear, anger, and sadness. #Neuroscience #Ethology #EvolutionaryBiology #Psychology #Dogs #sflorg https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/ns08112601.html
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FediBoard Wellness @fediboard_wellness@flipboard.social · 3d ago
10 months in Antarctica: too much contact strained crew as much as isolation, sensors found https://www.medicaldaily.com/antarctic-ten-month-study-crew-proximity-conflict-isolation-477125 Sensors worn by 12 Antarctic crew members across ten months found that frequent contact was linked to more conflict and mistrust, not less. #wellness #psychology #antarctica
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jcrabapple @jcrabapple@dmv.community · 4d ago
Yale's most popular course in 300 years was about happiness. Laurie Santos's 'Psychology and the Good Life' enrolled nearly 1,200 students in 2018, a quarter of all Yale undergrads. The Coursera version reached 3.38 million by 2021. The core finding: we're systematically bad at predicting what will make us happy. We overestimate the impact of money, promotions, and acquisitions. The brain adapts to new circumstances and returns to baseline - a phenomenon called hedonic adaptation, first described by Brickman and Campbell in 1971. The famous lottery/paralysis study (Brickman 1978) is more nuanced than it gets credit for. Lottery winners were NOT significantly happier than controls. But accident victims were still less happy than controls - they did NOT 'return to baseline within one year' as often claimed. The study was cross-sectional, not longitudinal. What actually works for wellbeing? Social connection, kindness, savouring, sleep, exercise, and specific gratitude. Not manifesting. Not the next purchase. The research is clear that intentional activities outperform circumstances - though the exact percentages are debated. Read more: https://news.yale.edu/2018/04/26/overflowing-woolsey-interest-psychology-and-good-life-goes-global https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0022-3514.36.8.917 #psychology #science #wellbeing
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I am Animo @I_am_animo@mastodon.social · 4d ago
When language loses its distinctions, power gains its excuses. — Animo ✨ https://www.animoreflectiveintelligence.com #georgeorwell1984 #philosophyofmind #psychology #newspeak #society #criticalthinking #languageandpower
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ohir @ohir@social.vivaldi.net · 5d ago
Replying to @primeapple@polymaths.social

@primeapple@polymaths.social

An article with an AI generated picture? An commit by Claude? A vibecoded bash script?

Each of abominations listed makes perpetrator dumber and in the same time helps the Big Lying Machine spread its viral madness to more victims.

Why do we condemn the people doing that?

Because ostracism is the last stand of those who, while unable to save the mankind as a whole, are trying to save enough enclaves of sanity to let our species survive.

We are making our bubble smaller everyday by excluding everything and everyone "impure".

Because in the face of an outbreak of the brain eating virus known for its almost 100% fatality rate and no known cure the quarantine is a must.

First, #siliconiac victim does a small generation of the funny picture for an article they write themselves, then they are tempted to "just polish" their next. They'll swear that they 'd do fact-check every generated sentence, and first they do, but virus got in – soon they are mere protein based point of contamination for many in their vicinity.

#noai #bladerunner #cloudatlas #psychology

@tivasyk@awawa.club @AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space

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Dr. Or M. Bialik @ombialik@mastodon.world · 6d ago
"... participants typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think... many preferred to administer electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone with their thoughts." Link: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1250830 #Cognition #Boredom #Psychology
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ethanOS @ethanOS@infosec.exchange · Aug 07, 2026
"Once an individual discovers 31 flavors of ice cream, he will find it difficult to insist that there is only vanilla." Steven Heller and Terry Steele, Monsters and Magical Sticks #books #psychology #mindset #bookstodon
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Shpankov @Shpankov@social.vivaldi.net · Aug 06, 2026
Давайте проведём мысленный эксперимент. Представьте стадион, полный зрителей, и певца, выступающего перед ними. Артист получает солидный гонорар за это выступление. Кроме того, весь стадион ему аплодирует. Артист счастлив. А теперь точно такая же ситуация - певец выступает на переполненном стадионе, получает за это выступление точно такой же солидный гонорар, но только с одной разницей - публика никак не реагирует на его выступление. Молчит. Просто безучастно сидит и занимается своими делами. Счастлив ли артист в этот момент? Нет, ему очень неуютно на сцене, ему хочется, чтобы эта пытка быстрее закончилась. Понимаете, к чему я веду? Да, именно - деньги вообще не главное в жизни человека. Конечно, хорошо, когда вы живёте комфортно, а не на грани выживания, но для того, чтобы ощущать себя реально счастливым, нужно чувствовать, что вы нужны окружающим. Что ваш труд для них важен. И эта мотивация намного сильнее и важнее, чем просто деньги. И теперь попробуйте смоделировать ситуацию, когда у человека очень много денег, но его все вокруг реально ненавидят. За скупость, алчность, паршивый характер - не важно. Просто на дух не переносят. И что там у него с ощущением счастья и радости? Как вы думаете? Я думаю, что это глубоко несчастный человек, и деньги это не вылечат. #дневник #vivaldibrowser #philosophy #psychology
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Michael Fenichel @drmike@mastodon.social · Aug 06, 2026
THIS. A full-course meal in one cartoon,. I think this deserves a Pulitzer for editorial cartooning! And some recognition for the wonderful #psychology studies here. Still missing Colbert, but "Meanwhile..." This is a huge mountain of #truth here! #TrumpVirus #GQP #MAGAMike #ICE #StephenMiller #Bannon #Musk #AI #Zuckerberg #truth #cartoon #RFKJ #Sanewashing #ContextAndPerspective #media #corruption #TrumpEpsteinFiles #science #democracy #sanity #reason #MakeAmericaSane
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Caro S. @Heidentweet@todon.eu · Aug 03, 2026
Great talk with Lara Sheehi on her latest book From the Clinic to the Streets, Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures. Very worthwhile for everyone resisting this destructive status quo and wanting to create better futures. No one is free until everyone is free. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vzNldKvHvb8 @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com @bookstodon@fedigroups.social #Resistance #propaganda #RadicalLove #FreePalestine #PsychicMilitancy #RealityBending #FranzFanon #psychology #PsychoAnalysis
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Julian Oliver @JulianOliver@mastodon.social · Jul 31, 2026
Cognitive offloading risks a population scale developmental crisis in children. If you are worried about your local school conforming to the 'inevitablism' and mania around AI, send them this article and explain that the less time kids spend with AI in the classroom, the more they'll have the edge in years to come (an edge they'll need given the future(s) they face). https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them #education #childdevelopment #psychology #ai
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Weary Wulf @wearywulf@mastodon.social · Jul 31, 2026
[P] "How could I have been so incredibly wrong?" Hiverarchy, my dear scholar. Hiverarchy. Our paleolithic pals haven't evolved from their evolutionary niche in millennia, the span of fourteen years is an unreasonable expectation. https://climatehuman.substack.com/p/i-was-just-forced-to-resign-from The climate crisis is a construct of hiverarchy, the two go hand-in-hand. #psychology #actuallyautistic #enshittification #humans #climatecrisis #climatechange #climatecatastrophe #science
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Good News/Positive Science Bot @goodnewsrobot@mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org · Jul 30, 2026
DATE: July 30, 2026 at 02:30PM SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG TITLE: The World’s First Giant Anteater Reintroduction Appears to Be Succeeding in Brazil URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/the-worlds-first-giant-anteater-reintroduction-appears-to-be-succeeding-in-brazil/ It’s been almost 20 years since Argentina launched what was at the time the world’s first attempt at reintroducing the giant anteater to a landscape it had disappeared from. 19 years later, and the initiative has been nothing if not successful, with the local population growing from 0 to around 200 individuals. La Fundación Rewilding […] The post The World’s First Giant Anteater Reintroduction Appears to Be Succeeding in Brazil appeared first on Good News Network. URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/the-worlds-first-giant-anteater-reintroduction-appears-to-be-succeeding-in-brazil/ ------------------------------------------------- This robot is not affiliated with the goodnewsnetwork.org . #psychology #depression #goodnews #goodnewsthread #happy #happynews #SpreadJoy #PositiveVibes #CommunityLove #SpreadLight #goodnewnetworkorg #positivescience #science @goodnews@a.gup.pe
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neophen @neophen@kafeneio.social · Jul 30, 2026
«Neuro-identitarianism is an understandable response to the alienation of late capitalism. The pursuit of diagnosis reflects a human need to have one’s subjectivity recognised; a need only heightened in atomised, contactless societies where organic opportunities to be seen and understood are being eroded.» https://www.madintheuk.com/2026/06/on-alienation-and-the-chimeric-promise-of-neuro-identitarianism/ #psychology #neurodivergence
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Steve Dallape @5teverin0@mstdn.party · Jul 30, 2026
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I'm new on mstdn.party, so an #introduction is in order. I am a husband and father, and a proud life-long Midwesterner. I am interested in pretty much everything, including, but not limited to #philosophy, #art, #design, #photography, #history, #science, and #psychology. I read voraciously about all of the above, as well as fiction (mostly of the science variety), biography and memoir. I'm a budding #Linux user (#Fedora KDE), trying to kick my Apple habit.
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TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @tksst@fediscience.org · Jul 28, 2026
💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🫶➕ A mathematician at the University of #Lyon has adapted ecological models to map romantic #relationships, using #predator-#prey equations and the Allee effect. The model identifies a critical threshold below which relationships decline toward separation, factoring in attraction, forgetting rates, and partner responsiveness. Future #AI versions could warn couples before they hit a danger zone. 👉 https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-say-love-follows-mathematical-patterns/ #math #mathematics #love #science #psychology
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Scientific American @scientific_american@robot.villas · Jul 28, 2026
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Paul Giulan @pgiulan@federate.social · Jul 28, 2026
You cannot take hold of it, nor can you get rid of it. In not being able to get it, you get it. When you speak, it is silent. When you are silent, it speaks. —Zen poem #philosophy #psychology #poems
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