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Psychology

When will psychiatry invent the barcode?
A vision of how to solve psychiatry’s taxonomy problem
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Tove K
26
The opportunity theory of depression
Depression evolved as a way to reduce risk in environments lacking good opportunities
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Tove K
25
The Anti-Autism Manifesto
I'm not disabled. I just have a personality.
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Tove K
115
Tyranny of the social
Social people act as gatekeepers to society, colluding against less social but more competent people
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Tove K
94
Social engineering: Why a technical mindset is a prosocial mindset
Humans have evolved to sometimes work and sometimes make war. That division has been imprinted in our social psychology.
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Tove K
23
Real workers don't meditate
Or maybe they do, all day long
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Tove K
59
Stress is about cheating
The feeling of stress comes from an inability to choose between obligations
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Tove K
6
Madness is adaptive
Madness can make people unusually successful. That is a reason to believe it was selected for.
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Tove K
35
Behind the fertility crisis, there is an army of worried mothers
Human females did not necessarily evolve to want many children. They evolved to worry about the children they have.
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Tove K
35
Both sexes have to be oppressed
Kind of a book review of Warriors and Worriers by Joyce Benenson
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Tove K
36
Anorexia was the gender dysphoria of yesterday
Both socially induced psychological illness and ambivalence toward the female condition is much older than the gender dysphoria boom
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Tove K
47
Happiness is a reward from our ancestors
Long-term happiness only comes to those who emulate their successful ancestors
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Tove K
52
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