Questions tagged [psychology]
Use this tag for questions about understanding, predicting, and changing the thoughts, emotions, and specifically psychological theories of behavior should use this tag. However, this excludes questions about specific claims, beliefs, or superstitions that would be better categorized under other, more specific tags, including behavior, brain, consciousness, superstition, esp, ghosts, religion, spirituality, energy, and meditation.
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Have 28% of US adults had "at least one intimate or romantic relationship with an AI"?
Therapist Dr. Michael J. Salas has a website which makes the claim:
28.16% of adults claim to have at least one intimate or romantic relationship with an AI.
Michael Salas, Artificial Romance: A ...
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Does marrying young lead to a higher probability of divorce?
As this article by the London School of Economics states, there is a "popular belief that marrying young leads to divorce." In support of this claim, the same article notes that:
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Are conservatives happier than liberals?
A 2025 article by Nate Silver says that liberals tend to be less happy and have lower-rated self-reported mental health than conservatives:
A 2023 American Affairs article says liberal have higher ...
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Does Younghoon Kim have the highest IQ in the world?
According to many websites, Younghoon Kim has an IQ of 276, the highest in the world. For example, the last source states:
YoungHoon Kim from South Korea has the world’s highest IQ 276 in history...
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Do negative interactions with AI make us worse at interacting with people?
There have been a number of articles from credible sources suggesting that negative interactions with AI change the way that we interact with others. In each of the quotes below, I have added my own ...
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Did the religious doctrine of Predestination trigger chronic nightmares in many New England children before the 19th century?
Author Susan Cain, in her 2022 pop psychology book Bittersweet, provides the following unsourced observation (p. 123-124):
Our tyranny of positivity, stems, in part from underappreciated historical ...
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Can people stop their heart from beating by using their mind? [duplicate]
I have watched the documentary Biofeedback: The Yoga of the West. Researcher Dr Elmer Green said that people can gain control over their involuntary nervous system like heartbeat by using ...
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Is replacing a bad habit with a good one more effective than stopping the bad habit alone?
Replacing bad habits with good ones is commonplace advice. However, I have seen this claim repeated on reputable sites, suggesting that there is evidence behind it, but no evidence is provided:
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Did Steven Pinker test (or propose testing) if ADHD patients could sit still for 5 minutes while in front of "6 legos and an over turned lamp"?
Harvard professor Steven Pinker proposed a study once where people with ADHD were told they would get $100 if they were able to sit still on a chair in a room for only 5 minutes. In front of them was ...
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Does making the home environment boring reduce school refusal?
When looking into school refusal there is a common piece of advice to ensure the home environment is boring.
I've found the claim in these places
The article school refusal when a child wont go to ...
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Do most women enjoy sex?
The YouTube video by clinical psychologist, Dr. Whiten (Dr. Psych Mom) called "women do enjoy sex... in depth discussion about why you may not think so" makes the claim that most women enjoy ...
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Does Japan have 1.5 million people with severe social withdrawal?
Hikokomiri is a Japanese concept of severe social withdrawal:
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare defines hikikomori as a condition in which the affected individuals refuse to leave ...
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Is Rapid-onset gender dysphoria real?
Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria. PLOS ONE describes ROGD as
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Rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) describes a ...
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Did Brené Brown claim her research showed that women are disappointed and disgusted by male vulnerability?
On the website Good Guys 2 Great Men, the author, Steve Horsmon, claims:
Even the research by vulnerability expert Brene Brown confirms the current social conditioning of women to be disappointed and ...
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Do most people like to talk about themselves?
There are numerous articles about people loving to talk about themselves.
However, my experience has been very different.
Is "everyone's favorite topic is themselves" a myth?
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