#Psychology

Welcome to the r/psychology discussion thread! Discussion threads will be "refreshed" each week (i.e., a new discussion thread will be posted for each week).…

Marketers chasing rankings often forget that people decide with emotion first. A new Search Engine Land analysis of TikTok Shop success reveals eight core human desires that drive action.…

Is Trading the Best Form of Self-Therapy Ever Created? Your biggest problem in trading is probably not your strategy. Not your indicators. Not even your lack of capital. The real problem is that the …

Have you ever looked into the psychology of a Mercury retrograde—including why so many of us notice sudden energetic shifts?

From Dev.to - beginners: Your Product Has 30 Features and 0 Paying Users. Here's the Clinical Reason.

Opinion The Reality No One Tells You (Chapter 31/50) You’re Running Out of Time No one likes hearing this. Because it sounds dramatic. Almost negative. Like something meant to scare you. But the …

DoneWhat the Heck Is Neophil? And What Does It Have to Do With Dopamine? “She always starts new projects and never finishes anything.” You’ve heard it. Maybe you’ve said it. Maybe someone …

Can We Fit? What Holds Two People Together — and What Doesn’t Not him. Not her. What runs between them. Disclosure: Kanwefit may benefit financially if readers use the app. The article reflects …

While “cereal for breakfast kids” or “latchkey kids” are often praised for their hyper-independence, serious issues can arise as they age into adulthood — and parent childre…

Yesterday I designed a new experiment for myself. Not testing "do I have curiosity" or "can I hold...

How Jealousy Quietly Destroys Genuine Friendships? Not all distance begins with hatred sometimes it begins with comparison. There lived two girls named Maya and Keerthi. They were not sisters by …

3 Expert Ways to Stop Time Slipping Away as You Age Stop living on autopilot and double your subjective lifespan today. I blinked, and somehow it is already the middle of the year. Seriously. I swear …

An essay on artificial intelligence, attention and the psychology of the digital age. Exploring how immediacy and constant response reshape thought, emotion and eventually the human interior life

Should I even wish my mother a “HAPPY” Mother’s day? A 50- year-old women, At 5 in the evening, Sat on the couch, after finishing all her household chores. Gazing at the ceiling of the room …

The “Presence” Paradox: How Spatial Computing is Rewiring the Human Sense of Self “Your brain doesn’t actually know where your body ends, and the room begins. It’s called proprioception …

[First published in Medium under the same title] (Feluda read crime scenes. LLMs read sentences. The...

The Cognitive Loop That Keeps Us Doomscrolling We think we’re done scrolling when we close the app, but our brain is already planning its way back in. Yes, we all know the moment: you tell yourself …

The Algorithm of Fear: AI Scaremongering and the Case for Stoic Resistance An examination of how media distorts artificial intelligence, and what stoicism can teach us about navigating it. The …

Do vices really steer us through wickedness? A line that struck me in Fight The Feeling by Mac Miller and Kendrick Lamar mentions vices and how they can help us through life’s trials and …

A new study suggests AI chatbots may do more than spread misinformation — they can actively strengthen a user’s false beliefs. Because conversational AI often validates and builds on what users say, it can make distorted memories, conspiracy theories, or…