Behavioral Science
73 Threads
1/ One of most important things I've learned: Severe personality problems find *camouflage.* No one thinks "I'm a sadist" or "I'm a malignant narcissist." They find a belief syste...
Yesterday I wrote about what I've called an Oedipus Trap: a situation where it would be so psychologically devastating to discover that you'd made a mistake--even completely innoce...
9 Common Mind Games People Play On You. - Behavioral Psychology Thread -
"as a concluding remark, we would like to highlight that we believe there is no better or worse way to experience love" https://t.co/6uXBnEBTCb
10 Books that will teach you everything about human psychology & behavior: 1. https://t.co/CrFA5eiwOS
🧵Why Charlie Munger suggests investors should be aware of Anchoring Bias. Anchoring bias is a cognitive bias that occurs when individuals rely too heavily on the first piece of i...
Do you know the monkey-banana-water experiment? 😀 It’s quite revealing about how human societies work. Starts off like this: Researchers put 5 monkeys in a room with some bananas...
Who shook the jar? [A thread]: https://t.co/mYjmrsx5oa
This is relationship interdependence theory. It can help you to understand mate selection, divorce, and breakups better than just saying "hypergamy." 🧵 https://t.co/MUj758kFMG
Why aren't people wearing masks? A behavioural psychologist explains why Canadians still aren't willing to wear masks even when multiple viruses are causing children to be hospita...
The biggest red pill to swallow: 1. Stated preferences - What someone's words say they want. 2. Revealed preferences - What someone's actions say they want. If you want to guara...
10 books that will teach you everything about human psychology & behavior: 1. https://t.co/qd1qTNdPmp
Hypergamy thread. What hypergamy conventionally means and how it has been redefined in dating pop culture. 🧵
That promiscuity is heritable is in fact a "good" take, or at least mainstream, and supported by basically the entirety of the literature that is intended to measure the heritabili...
Apparently, behavioral geneticist David Lykken wrote a book about antisocial people in the late 1990s. It's kinda amusing. Writing style similar to Paul Meehl, they were in fact co...
Men, this is how you fight ANY dopamine addiction (PORN / WEED / ALCOHOL/ etc) by building systems to fight cravings in 90 days or less🧵
The most powerful skill nobody ever taught you: Effective psychology. These 10 psychological triggers might be the most powerful tools that influence human behavior (use them res...
“Males in all these small scale cultures hunt large, dangerous animals, but it would actually be more calorically efficient if they hunted rabbits. The purpose of hunting large ani...
If you want to understand people's behavior read this: - Psychology thread - https://t.co/Y6G1M8rdo7
10 Psychology Hacks To Spot A Liar. - Behavioral Thread - https://t.co/Bno6YWEsXQ
9 Common Mind Games People Play On You. - Behavioral Psychology Thread -
Movies and investments excite most Indians. Interestingly, Indian investors’ personalities are a lot like movie characters. Some are inquisitive like PK, and some are bold like S...
Why do people click on a thumbnail? Psychology has the answers. Here’s 10 powerful theories that explain why people click:
To anyone who actually read the studies cited in books like 'Nudge' there never was evidence. Keep in mind for the next 'science-based' hiring spree https://t.co/eyIoDE8bgk
