14 Of The Most Impressive Psychological Findings From 2018

Feb 19, 2019 11:21 AM

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#1 Helicopter Parenting Can Prevent Child's Emotional And Behavioral Control Development

#2 Attending Regular Cultural Activities Can Dramatically Reduce The Risk For Depression In People Over The Age Of 50

#3 Limiting Social Media Adds To Your Well-Being

#4 Being Sleepy Makes Us Want To Avoid People

#5 Contrary To Old Belief, Winning Big Sum Of Money In Lottery Increases Your Level Of Satisfaction In Life

#6 Hanging Out With People Is Way More Fun When Your Smartphone Is Out Of Sight

#7 Kids As Young As 5-Year-Old Already Care About Their Reputation

#8 The Frequent Use Of Instagram Correlates With Depressive Symptoms, Low Self-Esteem And Anxiety Over Appearance In Young Women

#9 Violence In Movies Doesn't Turn Kids Violent

#10 Being In A Settled Relationship Increases The Chances Of Weight Gain

#11 Poverty Experienced In Childhood May Leave Lasting Effects On Cognitive Skills In Older Age

#12 The Use Of Psilocybin May Soon Be Available For Treating Various Mental Disorders

#13 Personal Evaluation Is Strongly Influenced By Untrustworthy Gossip

#14 Students Make Friends Quicker Than Adults Do

Source: https://www.boredpanda.com/major-psychological-findings-of-2018/

many of these are not new discoveries

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I remember that style of sofa from the 90s, moved all around with us.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Reading most of these like: v

7 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

came here for the pixies - where is my mind, left DiSaPpOiNtEd!

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So students and adults are mutually exclusive?

7 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

In related news: Water is wet and we need to breathe air to survive.

7 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

I mean... this stuff isn't necessarily new... maybe they're finally pushing it through peer review though?

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What about adult students?

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

As a recent adult student yes, i make friends more easily now that I am a student again

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#15 Psychology has a massive replication crisis of even basic experiments

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Ah, yes. The most respected of academic websites: BORED PANDA.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

+1 for numbering your images

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But what if I'm an adult AND a student?

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I Too Enjoy Capitalizing Every Word.

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

#8: yes, specifically, if you take selfies at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.

7 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 2

People climb, stand, and sit all over them as if its completely fine. Ive seen it with my own eyes and couldnt believe it.

7 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Maybe that's their way of coping with the un-graspable. Or maybe they are just idiots.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I'll take blatantly obvious statements for $20, Alex.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Grant money is really going to waste these days.

7 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 12

Some of these studies have merit - others it's like, does this "discovery" actually influence any positive change??

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

A lot of research studies go nowhere in all disciplines. It’s impossible to tell what will effect change.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If we stuck to common sense we wouldn't have a clue about relativity or quantum mechanics. Science needs to explore everything to work.

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

But what cause those pixel faces?

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

no shit.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No shit, students make friends quicker. You're in a concentrated area of like minded people all your age.

7 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

but the term 'student' does not exclude being an 'adult'.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Even then- like minded people with a common goal.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And you all share a common non-conflicting goal (pass the class), whose success is positively correlated to cooperation (study buddies).

7 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

So many people like "yeah that's obvious" but are browsing imgur in social situations and complaining about being single on no sleep.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Excited for psilocybe therapy to be a thing. They are a wonderful tool.

7 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Did someone say Tool?

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yes but in this case a tool for mental healing

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fat and Happy, thank you!

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8 makes me so angry.... it's a memorial, show some respect.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Oh man, #4 explains a lot for me

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

15 Only absolute psychopaths capitalize every word in a sentence.

7 years ago | Likes 89 Dislikes 5

Or inexplicably writing whole words in CAPS

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ItsTheOnyWayToWriteASentenceInOneWord

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

*TheOnly

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Psychopaths tend to be of above average intelligence. Only morons will capitalize every word in a sentence.

7 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Read the article, it doesn’t debunk anything. Author does not apply the scientific method or perform his own study.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Found the actual psychopath!

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure that counts as deadnaming. I feel pretty hate crimed right now.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Y’all out saying “duh/common sense” don’t realize how many thing sin psychology don’t end up being common sense

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

i.e. physical emotional responses (heartbeat, sweating) come before the emotion, and a lot of wisdoms/common sense things are contradictory

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That said I would take any non-scientist reporting on science with a grain of salt. 1 correlational study=/=an effect

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, a lot of these were known well before 2018.

7 years ago | Likes 122 Dislikes 5

Especially #8

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Science takes nothing for granted and you need to prove even the most common sense things to conduct science proper

7 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Yes, and when you're asked for peer-reviewed studies, you'll have them, unlike anti-vaxxers.

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

Some people can't believe the obvious without a study to back it up.

7 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Which is better than believing what they feel is obvious without a study to back it up.

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's really not.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

It is, being stubbon about demanding proof isn't as bad as being ignorant and not caring about finding the truth.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Being stubborn and refusing to acknowledge the existence of something without a peer reviewed study to prove it is far worse than accepting/

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To normal people. But confirmation from studies helps

7 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 5

Confirmation from studies that are done pretty every year. You gotta occupy those interns somehow...

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

i think he means, there were studies on these, from many many years ago. basically none of this is new.

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Nobody funds new research anymore because it's a risk- so all we get is this incremental research of limited value

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I would argue any long-term studies on social media would need to be newer.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#9 the issue isn't whether or not it "turns" kids violent. It's whether or not it has a long-term effects on desensitizing them to violence.

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

And research shows that there is no causal link

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Great. Cite your source.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

The study itself: Przybylski et al., 2014, Competence-impeding electronic games and players' aggressive feelings, thoughts, and behaviors

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is just for video games. It doesn't speak to your comment about desensitization, but the bottom line is it is more about experience

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What's helicopter parenting? Is it when I make sounds of a helicopter? Cause I'd love to say fuck fuck fuck fuck everytime I enter a room

7 years ago | Likes 247 Dislikes 4

If I remember correctly, the ROFLCopter goes SOI SOI SOI SOI

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

It’s called helicopter parenting because the parent hovers, like a helicopter, over every facet of the child’s life

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I can only assume the name comes from constantly hovering over your children and watching their every move

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It was defined by Dr Huey, ring a Bell?

7 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 1

Yes it was after he studied the Apache and Chinook tribes.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As a professional in educational/ social fields: ugh, I hate helicopter parents, but parents not caring at all are just as bad.

7 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Surely not caring at all is much, much worse?

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Shooting them with nerf darts and yelling "Hellfire!".

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

well shit....I missed the part about them being nerf.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As well as what they said, Its the type of parent who the teachers hate and sometimes take out on the student. The type who is never

7 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

Willing to work with the teachers and faculty and will insist their child is perfect

7 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

What would you call a parent that blames their kid for everything but wants help from the school?

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dad and mom i guess, though seriously dunno if there's a term for that

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A narcissist.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Constantly doing everything for your kid. Doing your best to make sure they never get a scrape or experience disappointment.

7 years ago | Likes 154 Dislikes 0

Yeah, if anyone's a parent, while you think you may be helping, you're really just underpreparing your child for life. Would not recommend.

7 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

The photo in #1 isn't really helicopter parenting imo though. Playing with your kid =! Helicopter parenting.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So is homeschooling the only way, then? Schools around here didn’t do valentines because some kids wouldn’t get as good candy as others.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That is exact opposite of the apposite response - homeschooling is 'helicopter' parenting taken to the next level. Send your kid to school.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No. It's more than just participation trophies or forced Valentines. That's one, tiny symptom.

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7 years ago (deleted Feb 20, 2019 8:17 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Just punched the shit out of a tree, can't say I feel even with ' life '

7 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

1/2 Update: after enough blows the tree keeled in on itself and crushed me to within an inch of my life, I use my last moments to say this.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2/2 tree definitely hits harder

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Maybe you're just in adventure mode

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's my understanding that monetary gain increases life satisfaction only in the short time. Long term follow up studies show steep decline.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Pretty sure that is what that new study is debunking.

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Most lottery winners lose their money within 5 years. Spending, family handouts, poor investments, etc.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Its like having a car capable of doing 500mph dropped off in your driveway. If you werent a good driver before, the only thing it will do is

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

greatly decrease the time it takes you to fuck everything up. Granted, you will have a LOT of fun doing it

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

To clarify, money and happiness are always positively correlated, it's on the rate-of-return that declines. Your first dollar gives you >

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

more happiness than your 5 millionth, but they both make you more happy than you were one dollar previously.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yep, that's the thing. Of course it'll give you a mood boost. And of course if it can remove roadblocks that are preventing your /1

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

happiness, then it will help. But once you adjust to it, it stops making you happy. Happiness comes from feeling fulfilled in your life. /2

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Having people who love you and that you love, doing things that help people, feeling like you make a contribution and are important. /3

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These are the things that lead to long-term happiness. Lack of money can make them more difficult to attain, but simply getting money /4

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doesn't give you all those. You still have to work for them. /5

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