Incompetent individuals, compared with their more competent peers, will dramatically overestimate their ability and performance relative to objective criteria...Top performers tended to underestimate their own performance compared to their peers...the mos
people are more willing to accept bad psychology explanations if they include irrelevant brain facts...neuroscience is especially effective as a rhetorical distractor...seductive details...unlimited jargon...reductionist & materialist explanations...
I will not believe my son is disordered. What is impaired and disordered is a society where, in order to gain some level of understanding and acceptance of differences, a child has to be considered abnormal.
depressed individuals actually have more realistic perceptions of their own image, importance, and abilities than the average person. While it’s still generally accepted that depressed people can be negatively biased in their interpretation of events an
The coordinated interplay between neural activity in the amygdala and other brain regions, especially the medial prefrontal cortex, the occipitofrontal cortex, the fusiform gyrus, and the superior temporal sulcus, allows us to develop social responses...
Self...lost, overtaken, evil-driven, powerless. 1900s, Age of Anxiety, discovers the Doppelgänger, Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, endowed with potent psychological & sexual connotations, bring insanity & hysteria into focus.
The notion that East Asians, Japanese in particular, are self-effacing and have low self-esteem compared to Americans may well describe the surface view of East Asian personality,, but the journal Psychological Science that high implicit self-esteem may b
New York was cold and bright in a way that made the gases waltz in the sunlight as they escaped the sewers. I was lunching alone in a SoHo cafe. That might sound romantic, but New York always finds a way to drain the romance out of a moment: a rude str
I want to tell about my method to fight laziness. To apply it, you do not need strength of will, a special mindset, enthusiasm, non-depression, ants in your pants, or to attend NLP courses or Shaolin Monastery.
Authorities report that more than half the population experiences trauma, which makes people more likely to develop PTSD, depression, anxiety and physical illness later in life. Now, a new study finds that among ‘healthy’ individuals, those who displa