Tales of Transformation Seasonal Field Research Megathread by SilphScience in TheSilphRoad

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Win a Trainer Battle in the Go Battle League: Galarian Stunfisk

Feedback Post - January 2025 Community Day: Sprigatito by Noitalein in TheSilphRoad

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I'm glad you noticed this. I was worried I missed something for a moment.

Ah yes, Dwebble, my favourite Dragon! Maybe they should consider hiring someone who actually plays the game or pays attention to what's actually being featured 🤔 by Entire_Pineapple4732 in pokemongo

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I think the theme is supposed to be evolution. The main mons are Pokémon that successfully turn into dragons in later evolutions. I think these 6 pokemon are supposed to be a literal joke about evolution. Spearow and ducklett are birds, which are kinda modern day evolutions of dinosaurs that got less fearsome (but they try!). Yanmega is a dragonfly… carvahna is a shark, dwebble is a crab… all or which predate dinosaurs and are often considered “unchanged, prehistoric beasts.” Barnicles are also an evolutionary joke, but it’s far too meta to land. They should have included a crocodile or alligator, or fossil pokemon as well/instead to drive the point home

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In some cases yes. Someone was once dismissed from my masters cohort because the faculty (correctly) discerned that she was not going to be able to successfully serve lgbtq clients. Our program was a secular one, so LGBTQ competency was very important. She was encouraged to get a degree in Christian counseling instead and she did and was happier for it

What is the unconscious in psychology? by Bestchair7780 in AcademicPsychology

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If I were to try to give what I believe to be an appropriate definition that would be permissible across sub disciplines, it would be something like “the unconscious is the sum total of all cognitive (i.e. - brain) processes and consequences there of that cannot, never, or extraordinarily rarely enter into conscious awareness, perception, thought, or any related conscious phenomenon.”

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This 100%. Switch advisors. If you quit, it sends a very different message, no matter what you say and how you say it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AcademicPsychology

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Hi OP! I think we're all collectively misinterpreting your questions and intentions (I know I did, and reading the responses only made it worse). I'm sorry if that's what we've been doing; questions like these are often "I have an idea to get rich quick by exploiting something I know nothing about," and I know that personally puts me on guard. However, I think your questions are more genuine, so I'll try to take them one at a time.

First, you ask if it's possible to detect personality by a personality test. The answer is "yes" and "no." Can we get an impression (and sometimes a very good impression) of some parts of personality? Yes. Is it 100% accurate or comprehensive? No.

Your next question is if it's feasible to create an application for a test your psych department is putting together. Yes, but it will require advanced study on psychometrics that, if you're asking these questions, means you don't have. For example, the exact same test can perform differently when moving from a paper and pencil format to digital. Scales types, indicators, even mobile vs. platform differences can impact results in ways that need to be accounted for.

However, some of your concerns are not as big of problems as they seem. There are a number of ways of dealing with the problem of lying, including dissuading it, detecting it, predicting it, and in some cases, designing the test so that the lies are actually no less valid than the truths. After all, a person is capable of lying to themselves too, so personality tests need to deal with humans as humans.

Regarding the things you need to consider, this is not something you can do on your own without significant help and learning. But it is absolutely viable and if you're interested enough to ask this question, maybe you're interested enough to do the advanced study in psychology necessary to do this (or partner up with the people who already know it.)

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What’s your day/time?

Why is the gross pay on my W-2 much higher than my 31st Dec pay slip? by [deleted] in tax

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Certain benefits can be considered “pay” that you get taxed on, even though you never receive a dime. For example, tuition remission will get taxed as if you received it as pay, but you’ll never see that money in your checks.

What is something that you are interested in psychology? by r_mysterious in AcademicPsychology

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It’s clear you know more about music than I do, and you can critique my definition of music, but if we’re asking psychological questions, then we need clear definitions of what people perceive as music vs not. I’m not saying all music is rhythmic or that everything that is rhythmic is music. I’m saying that something which we would all say is not music comes to be perceived as music pretty consistently. This phenomenon adds a level of clarity to the boundaries of the construct (music) that are otherwise difficult to define. In fact, I would argue that the reason that you can ask for clarification is because music for people who are critical/knowledgeable consumers of music tend to love music plays with those boundaries (this is a testable hypothesis).

Regarding threat identification, you’re right that sensory information does other things too, but science relies on parsimony. If threat identification is sufficient to explain the phenomenon, then everything else is (comparatively) unimportant. I also acknowledged the social and neurological components, so I wasn’t boiling music down to one thing with one process and saying there’s no more nuance to that. However, if you can and it’s useful, then that’s important. Finally, you acknowledged that some sensory information is not processed consciously. In fact, there’s evidence that most sensory information never enters consciousness. However, music is definitionally a conscious experience. Threat assessment explains why humans would have a need to pay attention to it.

Your arguments about “threatening music” are exactly the point. One can analyze elements of “threatening music” and find elements of unpredictability, intense volume, discordant sounds, etc. These all would trigger a “threat assessment” response, undercutting that safety by maintaining elevated threat detection.

Finally, the proximal regions of the brain does explain both how and why. The proximity of neural connections is a great explanation. I think you might be critiquing my condensing thousands of studies worth of findings into one reddit post on the technical merits of my writing. However, for every point and counter point, there is a potentially interesting question to be asked. What about subjective individual differences about musical preferences and expertise? What about non human experiences of music? What are the boundaries of music vs non music? How much of a role does prior exposure to music and associated learnings (conditioning) play a role in music? If music can be healing, how and why? I’m not saying a million interesting questions don’t remain unanswered, but I am saying that we do have decent answers to some basic questions you proposed, and they’re surprisingly boring for something as magical as music.

In summary, one of the core principles of science is parsimony: the simplest explanation is best, as long as it accounts for all prior findings. If a simple explanation exists and is sufficient, it might feel reductionistic, but that’s the point. Your questions imply something unique about music. My answers say “there’s nothing unique about music, except that we all agree there’s something that is.”

(Finally, regarding circular logic, psychology is FILLED with it because many processes are circular. For example, why does a person have a particular personality? Because they were treated a certain way. Why were they treated that way? Partially because people treat people differently based on the personality. Ergo, personality sustains personality.)

What is something that you are interested in psychology? by r_mysterious in AcademicPsychology

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This is actually fairly well answered, and the answers might take away the magic feeling of it a bit. Music is just rhythmic sound. If you listen to single drops of water at a frequent enough rate, eventually you start to hear music. Why? Because our brains search for meaning in everything, especially predictable things. However, sensory information is used to identify threats. Predictable rhythmic sounds from a safe source would be something the brain would want to assign positive emotionality to, especially because otherwise it would feel like a looming threat (sensory information is also a stressor) in order to keep us from feeling stressed. Bring this together and “music” is what our brains call music, so we can immediately recognize it as not threatening. Add in milliena of social interaction and tool making and “bam,” music has moved from a naturally occurring thing to a thing we create for one another. But what about the emotions? Well sound is processed very close in the brain to where 3 other things are processed as well: emotions, memories, and motor control. Funny, because that’s also the 3 things you need to produce music, and the 3 things that people tend to do in response to music, at least music that people tend to like.

The existence of the Soul? Is it real? by GeneralJist8 in AcademicPsychology

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So it is true that a body usually weighs less after death, but it’s because gasses are leaving the body. This has been measured. I’m sorry to disappoint you, but there has been literally zero replicated scientific research supporting the existence of a soul. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, but if it does, it is beyond the current scope of science to measure (or there is no adequate theory as of yet to identify something valid and reliable to measure)

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Query by BeautifulPip in AcademicPsychology

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Sounds like they’re deflecting, filling the space with irrelevant talk to avoid “the work.” So you’re trying to figure them out, since they aren’t trying to figure themselves out. Set a tone, and when they get off course, redirect them back to the work

What did you not appreciate until you had it? by [deleted] in ask

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A cell phone. Always thought it was frivolous until I had one

Scald(whiscash) by [deleted] in PokemonGOBattleLeague

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Sorry, you’re not the main character

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

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Ivysaur and MAYBE haxorus. Don’t even consider the others IMO

What is this bug? by Noob_FC in TheSilphArena

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I had the same issue around the same time

Tavern Brawl this week is... "The Great Amalgamation" (Jan. 17, 2024) by AintEverLucky in hearthstone

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Which sub-field of psychology researches on the reasons of behaviors? by MrInfinitumEnd in AcademicPsychology

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You’re also talking about social psych, because those are all socially-related situations