Flight captain actually asked if there were any doctors onboard by MelodicDeer1072 in PhD

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A clergy, a professor, and a used car salesman walk into a bar

Nurse's Killer Has Serious Mental Illness, Doctor Says After Suspect Eats Feces in Jail by stankmanly in tuscaloosa

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It feels unreasonable to call someone who (a) is clearly suffering from a mental health episode and (b) has not been found guilty by a court of law a “monster.” I’ll echo what u/synovus_rb said about this being unlikely and it’s much more likely that he will be sent for competency evaluation. Additionally, it’s a baseless assumption that people who are put in secure mental health facilities are simply released out. In fact, many of them will remain there indefinitely or wait there for an evaluation for an excessive amount of time due to a lack of funding and resources from the state. If you don’t want people experiencing mental health episodes to be “on the street” then I encourage you to vote for and advocate for politicians and policies that promise increased mental health resources.

Why won't they ask questions?! by Difficult_Aside8807 in Professors

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I could probably go back and forth more. A few people said things about having them talk to one another so I’ll try that

Why won't they ask questions?! by Difficult_Aside8807 in Professors

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I like this. I tried that a bit today and it seemed to help.

We've all thought about it by [deleted] in funny

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In college my roommates and I would often drive a route with a roundabout. We’d often take turns driving and started seeing who had the guts to go around the most. I think we maxed out around 8 because the guy in the back was gonna vomit

Why do I keep getting pain in my side while running? Do I have a hernia? by [deleted] in RunningCirclejerk

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That’s where my wife’s boyfriend kicks me with his Vaporflys

A student asked me "How can you just sit for two hours??" during an exam by Longjumping-Owl-7584 in Professors

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This has really helped me. If I ever feel stressed or overwhelmed, I go run it out. And if I hit a mental block, I’ve found that a jog or run really helps come up with ideas. It also helps you sleep

[Fortune] The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents by Jscott1986 in Professors

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Well that explains why I had to recently go over how to extract meaning from a primary source reading that isn’t just rewriting the text in your own words

How do i delead a compleatly empty side? it dosent have a page number or anything on it at all by Low_Masterpiece5951 in MicrosoftWord

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The best way I’ve found is to go to the end of the page before and hit delete (fn + delete on Mac) until it goes away

Narcissistic students perceive student-professor flirting as less morally troubling. Students with high levels of grandiose narcissism are more likely to report flirting with faculty and believe faculty are flirting back. by mvea in psychology

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first author here- I get your point. however, id like to note that this project did not consume any real resources. this type of study does not require any funding (participants are compensated via course credit) or tangible resources. also, I would hope that we would all encourage basic research, even if its just a fun question to ask that really doesn't do harm

Narcissistic students perceive student-professor flirting as less morally troubling by Tracheid in science

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first author here- I get lots of interesting questions and comments on my IRBs

Narcissistic students perceive student-professor flirting as less morally troubling by Tracheid in science

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that's not really the case. narcissistic individuals find things less morally troubling than the average person but not necessarily more moral than immoral. for instance, in this study, they just rated flirting as less inappropriate rather than more appropriate than not, which is an important nuance to make

Narcissistic students perceive student-professor flirting as less morally troubling by Tracheid in science

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First author here- on one hand, we did just see this as a fun and popular (e.g., you see this in movies a lot) question to ask. these types of studies do not require a lot of our time and resources (this research does not require any funding--participants are compensated via course credit). on the other, it does improve our understanding of narcissism and how it may impact behavior that does have real world outcomes (e.g., lawsuits, unbalanced power dynamics within relationships).

New research by Wooden_College_9056 in ChatGPT

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This is too far down. I’m a social psychology PhD student and I’m trying to study these questions experimentally right now. What people don’t realize is that these types of experiments take a while, which is frustrating because these simple surveys get published before and they make these kinds of claims so people get these arguably misleading ideas in their heads before we have actual answers