#Saturday #Stories: Lightning Strikes at the National Stadium https://denisenfyffe.wordpress.com/2023/09/09/saturday-stories-lightning-strikes-at-the-national-stadium/ #CareerDevelopment, #DevelopmentalPsychology

There are now *multiple* published papers that use my PyHab add-on for #PsychoPy from labs that never once contacted me for tech support or questions or anything.

This seems small but it's profoundly validating to know that it works well enough and the documentation is clear enough that I no longer need to be directly involved.

#infant #research #developmentalpsychology #psychology #OpenScience

There are now *multiple* published papers that use my PyHab add-on for #PsychoPy from labs that never once contacted me for tech support or questions or anything.

This seems small but it's profoundly validating to know that it works well enough and the documentation is clear enough that I no longer need to be directly involved.

#infant #research #developmentalpsychology #psychology

New paper from the #DevelopmentalPsychology side of the Kuhlmeier lab

The widespread adoption of new methods for testing children does not typically occur over a matter of months. Yet, the pandemic created a sudden need among many research groups to use online testing. We report results from a survey of researchers on experiences with online testing and discuss challenges, limitations, and opportunities.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1160203

#CognitiveDevelopment #Cognition
#OpenScience
#ResearchMethods

ManyDogs (@ManyDogs) is an international consortium of researchers interested in #canine science.

We are soliciting proposals for our next project. Do you have ideas?

Check out the info below and see: bit.ly/416TXN6

#AnimalCognition #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition #CognitiveDevelopment #Cognition #DevelopmentalPsychology

New paper from the #DevelopmentalPsychology side of the Kuhlmeier lab on shyness & prosocial behavior: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1128588/full

We presented 3.5- to 4.5-year-olds with problems that varied, in a 2 x 2 within-subjects design, by the type of intervention required (helping or comforting) and the source of the problem (within the experimenter’s personal space or distanced from her). Shyer children were not less likely to intervene, but they were slower to do so.

#CognitiveDevelopment #Cooperation

The Dissenter: #747 David Geary - Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences (Pt. 2)

Episode webpage: https://anchor.fm/thedissenter/episodes/747-David-Geary---Male--Female-The-Evolution-of-Human-Sex-Differences-Pt--2-e1r78oo

Media file: https://anchor.fm/s/822ba20/podcast/play/61104344/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2022-10-23%2F655f0041-4f74-b5b9-4877-3cb2f7e0664e.m4a

#science #behaviour #psychology #DevelopmentalPsychology #EvolutionaryBiology

The 'backfire' effect is a psychological response which manifests as dogma. Dogma could be defined as beliefs (perceptions) & attitudes (opinions) that defy reason (evidence & logic). Therefore, the cause of the 'backfire' effect, the underlying psychology, is people believing in nonsense (e.g., superstitions, faiths, greenwash, etc). This nonsense could be due to a lack of understanding about science, for instance, not understanding, but saying they don't believe in the (science) of climate change. And or an implicit belief in economic & or political propaganda (false advertising. E g., greenwash). Or & a belief in a religion. What’s the difference between a religion and a cult?

In laypersons terms, the 'backfire' effect may cause "pig headedness" or "being stubborn". A form of psychology (temperaments, attitudes, opinions, etc) that cannot be reasoned with by referring to evidence. In common parlance, “there is no reasoning with that person” (on specific subjects). When that evidence contradicts an idea, a repetitive thought pattern, a belief, a behaviour, that evidence (empirical information) causes insecurity in the state of minds that hold onto thoughts as if they were valued possessions to be defended at all costs (e.g., a faith).

Fundamentally, the 'backfire' effect occurs when people don't want to believe the truth. That could be a social truth about themselves or other people. Or an objective truth, such as a reasoned evidence-based theory, such as evolution or human caused climate change.

As an academic psychologist (someone that studies the research & develops research methods, etc), the general theory I have developed, by contrasting the empirical evidence of the science of psychology, is that the backfire effect occurs because of an underlying insecurity. 'Attachment theory' is an empirically established theory. For example, the research using the 'strange situation' method has been confirmed by repeating that research and observing similar results (“peer review”)

Mary Ainsworth - The Strange Situation | Attachment Styles. https://www.simplypsychology.org/mary-ainsworth.html

We can understand how, for example, psychology associated with a child's emotional 'attachment' to a parent that was insensitive to that child's emotional needs, may cause an insecure attachment ("bond") to develop in that child. Child abuse causes a more extreme insecure attachment to develop in children.
Laypeople can also develop psychological 'attachment' to ideologies (beliefs). Scientists can develop psychological attachments to ‘pet’ theories (including psychologists that desire to accommodate their personal beliefs into their science based understanding. Resulting in a half wrong, half right ideology). We can understand how, for example, the psychology associated with a child's or adult's emotional 'attachment' to a religion, that at its core infers there is a punitive God, can develop, or be a ’crutch’ for an insecure attachment.

An example of a secure attachment would be – a social bond to an emotionally stable care giver. This relationship can be between a child & parent, or between two adults, or to an abstract idea such as the faith in a 'leader' (political, economic, religious, royal, social. I.e., forms of social celebrity). A (more) securely attached child feels more secure to explore their environment (trying new experiences). Whilst exploring, if that child felt threatened, there is the reliable security of the care giver to fall back on. A securely attached adult feels more secure to 'explore' reality. For example, more open to new experiences (including learning novel information). An insecurely attached adult is more probable to 'follow' the 'crowd'. Including what the 'crowd' believes (the dominant ideologies of their culture). Cultures with more insecure forms of governance where the governments manipulate and repress the people’s freedoms, are also more probable to consist of more people that make ‘sense’ of it all using religiosity.

As a case example of the backfire effect - A scientist understands that air pollution & climate change needs mitigating. So, they try to inform non-scientists (lay people) about the conclusions that the evidence infers. However, air pollution causes diseases and death. Therefore, someone that has an insecure attachment to a belief, is more probable to feel more personally threatened when they hear that their own behaviours - are harming their own health & the health of the people they care for. Insecurity, threats, fear, increase irrational thinking. The threatened may then ‘double down’ on their dogma and criticize the bearers of that concerning information (e.g., air pollution scientists, climatologists, evolutionary biologists. The scientific subjects that infer that humans aren’t doing “good” in certain areas of life (causes denial in some). Whilst for example, folk don’t generally feel threatened about, for example, the sciences related to technology (therefore don’t tend to deny or be so critical of, for example, physicists, astrophysics, computer scientists, etc).

That's why there are polarised cultural social ingroups - in the context of these groups differing perceptions of "science". A scientist may know that inhaling air pollution kills (an understanding that's 'secure' because it's founded on empirical evidence). A lay person, for example, feels attached to their wood-burning and or fossil fuel-burning behaviours (quite common so I have “heard”), & has developed a green-washed perception - feels threatened by the empirical evidence (they don't want to hear it, believe it. They don’t understand the evidence which infers the reality about what their behaviours are causing)

The insecurity, the perceived threat, and the fear cause a backfire effect. Those with an insecure attachment, deny the information which threatens them, & they then 'settle' back to believing in their delusions (i.e., dogma).

However, the good news is that those that understand these underlying behavioural psychological mechanisms (the physiology, or evolutionary biology, of developmental & social psychology), can 'nudge' individuals & populations of people to understand their own psychology. Or at least, to use less direct methods, and develop social methods to encourage & promote healthier therefore sustainable cultures. To develop healthier psychologies (in populations of humans)

#science #psychology #MentalHealth #EvolutionaryBiology #DevelopmentalPsychology #SocialPsychology

The 'backfire' effect is a psychological response which manifests as dogma. Dogma could be defined as beliefs (perceptions) & attitudes (opinions) that defy reason (evidence & logic). Therefore, the cause of the 'backfire' effect, the underlying psychology, is people believing in nonsense (e.g., superstitions, faiths, greenwash, etc). This nonsense could be due to a lack of understanding about science, for instance, not understanding, but saying they don't believe in the (science) of climate change. And or an implicit belief in economic & or political propaganda (false advertising. E g., greenwash). Or & a belief in a religion. What’s the difference between a religion and a cult?

In laypersons terms, the 'backfire' effect may cause "pig headedness" or "being stubborn". A form of psychology (temperaments, attitudes, opinions, etc) that cannot be reasoned with by referring to evidence. In common parlance, “there is no reasoning with that person” (on specific subjects). When that evidence contradicts an idea, a repetitive thought pattern, a belief, a behaviour, that evidence (empirical information) causes insecurity in the state of minds that hold onto thoughts as if they were valued possessions to be defended at all costs (e.g., a faith).

Fundamentally, the 'backfire' effect occurs when people don't want to believe the truth. That could be a social truth about themselves or other people. Or an objective truth, such as a reasoned evidence-based theory, such as evolution or human caused climate change.

As an academic psychologist (someone that studies the research & develops research methods, etc), the general theory I have developed, by contrasting the empirical evidence of the science of psychology, is that the backfire effect occurs because of an underlying insecurity. 'Attachment theory' is an empirically established theory. For example, the research using the 'strange situation' method has been confirmed by repeating that research and observing similar results (“peer review”)

Mary Ainsworth - The Strange Situation | Attachment Styles. https://www.simplypsychology.org/mary-ainsworth.html

We can understand how, for example, psychology associated with a child's emotional 'attachment' to a parent that was insensitive to that child's emotional needs, may cause an insecure attachment ("bond") to develop in that child. Child abuse causes a more extreme insecure attachment to develop in children.
Laypeople can also develop psychological 'attachment' to ideologies (beliefs). Scientists can develop psychological attachments to ‘pet’ theories (including psychologists that desire to accommodate their personal beliefs into their science based understanding. Resulting in a half wrong, half right ideology). We can understand how, for example, the psychology associated with a child's or adult's emotional 'attachment' to a religion, that at its core infers there is a punitive God, can develop, or be a ’crutch’ for an insecure attachment.

An example of a secure attachment would be – a social bond to an emotionally stable care giver. This relationship can be between a child & parent, or between two adults, or to an abstract idea such as the faith in a 'leader' (political, economic, religious, royal, social. I.e., forms of social celebrity). A (more) securely attached child feels more secure to explore their environment (trying new experiences). Whilst exploring, if that child felt threatened, there is the reliable security of the care giver to fall back on. A securely attached adult feels more secure to 'explore' reality. For example, more open to new experiences (including learning novel information). An insecurely attached adult is more probable to 'follow' the 'crowd'. Including what the 'crowd' believes (the dominant ideologies of their culture). Cultures with more insecure forms of governance where the governments manipulate and repress the people’s freedoms, are also more probable to consist of more people that make ‘sense’ of it all using religiosity.

As a case example of the backfire effect - A scientist understands that air pollution & climate change needs mitigating. So, they try to inform non-scientists (lay people) about the conclusions that the evidence infers. However, air pollution causes diseases and death. Therefore, someone that has an insecure attachment to a belief, is more probable to feel more personally threatened when they hear that their own behaviours - are harming their own health & the health of the people they care for. Insecurity, threats, fear, increase irrational thinking. The threatened may then ‘double down’ on their dogma and criticize the bearers of that concerning information (e.g., air pollution scientists, climatologists, evolutionary biologists. All the scientific subjects that suggest humans aren’t doing do “good” in certain areas of life. Whilst for example, folk don’t to feel to threatened about, for example, the sciences related to technology (therefore don’t tend to deny or be so critical of, for example, physicists, astrophysics, computer scientists, etc).

That's why there are polarised cultural social in groups in the context of these groups differing perceptions of "science". A scientist may know that inhaling air pollution kills (an understanding that's 'secure' because it's founded on empirical evidence). A lay person, that for example, feels attached to their wood burning and or fossil fuel burning behaviours (quite common so I have “heard”), & has developed a green washed perception - feels threatened by the empirical evidence (they don't want to hear it, believe it. They don’t understand the evidence which infers the reality about what their behaviours are causing)

The insecurity, the perceived threat, the fear, causes a backfire effect. Those with an insecure attachment, deny the information which threatens them, & they then 'settle' back to believing in their delusions (i.e., dogma).

However, the good news is that those that understand these underlying behavioural psychological mechanism (the physiology, or evolutionary biology, of developmental & social psychology), can 'nudge' individuals & populations of people to understand their own psychology. Or at least, to use less direct methods, develop social methods to encourage & promote healthier therefore sustainable cultures. To develop healthier psychologies.

#science #psychology #MentalHealth #EvolutionaryBiology #DevelopmentalPsychology #SocialPsychology

The 'backfire' effect is a psychological response which manifests as dogma. Dogma could be defined as beliefs (perceptions) & attitudes (opinions) that defy reason (evidence & logic). Therefore, the cause of the 'backfire' effect, the underlying psychology, is people believing in nonsense.

This nonsense could be due to a lack of understanding about science, for instance, not understanding, but saying they don't believe in the (science) of climate change. And or an implicit belief in economic & or political propaganda (false advertising. E g., greenwash). Or & a belief in a religion.

In laypersons terms, the 'backfire' effect may be called "pig headedness" or "being stubborn". Or it may simply manifest as a psychology that can not be reasoned with by referring to evidence.

Fundamentally, the 'backfire' effect occurs when people don't want to believe the truth. That could be a social truth about themselves or other people. Or an objective truth, such as a reasoned evidence based theory, such as evolution.

As an academic psychologist, the general theory l have developed is that the backfire effect occurs because of an underlying insecurity. 'Attachment theory' is an empirically established theory. For example, the research using the 'strange situation' method.

We can understand how, for example, the psychology associated with a child's emotional 'attachment' to a parent that was insensitive to that's child's emotional needs, may cause an insecure attachment (" bond") to develop in that child. Child abuse causes a more extreme insecure attachment to develop in children.

However, people can also be 'attached' to ideologies (belief)

We can understand how, for example, the psychology associated with a child's or adult's emotional 'attachment' to a religion, that at it's core infers there is a punitive God, can develop an insecure attachment.

In lay persons terms, an example of a secure attachment would to an emotionally stable care giver. This relationship can be between a child & parent, or between two adult's, or to an abstract idea such as the faith in a 'leader' ( political, economic, religious, royal, social. I.e., forms of celebrity)

A securely attached child feels more secure to explore their environment, when they feel threatened, their is the reliable security of the care giver to fall back on. A securely attached adult feels more secure to 'explore' reality. For example, more open to new experiences. An insecurely attached adult is more probable to 'follow' the 'crowd'. Including what the 'crowd' believes (the dominant ideologies of their culture).

As a case example of the backfire effect.

A scientists understands that air pollution & climate change needs mitigating. So, they try to inform non-scientists (lay people) about the conclusions that the evidence infers. However, air pollution causes diseases and death. Therefore, someone that has an insecure attachment to a belief, is more probable to feel more personally threatened when they hear that their own behaviours - are harming their own & the people they care for, health.

That's why there are polarised cultural social in groups in the context of these groups differing perceptions of "science". A scientists may know that inhaling air pollution kills (an understanding that's 'secure' because it's founded on empirical evidence). A lay person, that for example, feels attached to their wood burning or fossil fuel burning behaviours, & has developed a green washed perception - feels threatened by the empirical evidence (they don't want to hear, believe, it)

The insecurity, the perceived threat, the fear, causes a backfire effect. Those with an insecure attachment, deny the information which threatens them, & they then 'settle' back to believing in their delusions.

However, the goods news is that those that understand these underlying behavioural psychological mechanism (the physiology, or evolutionary biology, of developmental & social psychology), can 'nudge' individuals & populations of people to understand their own psychology. Or at least, to use less direct methods, health strategists, to encourage & promote healthier therefore sustainable cultures.

#science #psychology #EvolutionaryBiology #DevelopmentalPsychology #SocialPsychology

Automated scoring of reflective thinking in accounting students' writing "positively related to data analytics assignment grades [but] #emotionalIntelligence (EI) was not found to moderate th[is] relationship" (N = 86).

Images of pages from the thesis are attached: https://udallas-ir.tdl.org/handle/20.500.14026/2064

#CriticalThinking #Emotion #EmotionalIntelligence #EQ #NaturalLanguageProcessing #NLP #TextAnalysis #DevelopmentalPsychology #DevPsych #Teaching #Education #DataAnalysis

Older people (over 55) were less prone to a certain type of #deliberation during #buying and #donation #decisions—even though they were more ambivalent (and #ambivalence correlated with more deliberation) and even when controlling for working #memory—than younger people (18-24). Total N = 120. 

Images of pages from the article are attached: https://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/9902

#age #CriticalThinking #DecisionScience #JudgmentAndDecisionMaking #JDM #DevelopmentalPsychology #DevPsych #Psychology #CogSci

"children [with] more #conservative" parents were more likely to "cho[o]se boys and girls with extreme stereotypical features (e.g., the girl in head-to-toe pink) as [more] representative and informative of their categories"

Video abstract (4 minutes):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps9BwuukyD0
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13345

#Stereotypes #Gender #Politics #Children #Parenting #DevelopmentalPsychology #DevPsych #Learning

Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0071

"Conveniently setting aside the damage human cultural behaviour has caused the planet and the unconscionable extinction we have brought to those with whom we once shared it, our capacity for cumulative innovation of highly diverse and contextually adaptive social and physical ways of
doing things is remarkable and unparalleled in any other species"

#science #culture #behaviours #psychology #development #DevelopmentalPsychology

Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0071

"Conveniently setting aside the damage human cultural behaviour has
caused the planet and the unconscionable extinction we have brought to
those with whom we once shared it, our capacity for cumulative innovation
of highly diverse and contextually adaptive social and physical ways of
doing things is remarkable and unparalleled in any other species"

#science #culture #behaviours #psychology #development #DevelopmentalPsychology

Developmental Psychology: Human development of attention, social and emotional skills determines how if an individual can lead a happy life and fit in with the society (if desired). Therefore, we also study all the topics above from a #DevelopmentalPsychology perspective.

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”

—Jean Piaget

#developmentalpsychology #JeanPiaget #constructivism #psychology #development

Just in time (and space)!

In his new article, Bill Chopik outlines four axioms about how individuals' psychological development is rooted within space and time.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100085

Three quotes follow 🧵👉

#Psychology
#SocialPsychology
#SocialScience
#EcologicalPsychology
#DevelopmentalPsychology
@socialpsych

Are you new to Mastodon? When I started here last month I found this #Tootorial by @djnavarro very helpful for understanding not only the interface but the culture of hashtags (that have CapitalLetters), alt-text, and content warnings.

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/

#AnimalBehavior #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalCognition #ComparativeCognition #DevelopmentalPsychology #CognitiveDevelopment
#Psychology #Biology

Where are all the #DevelopmentalPsychology folks at on here? Does mastodon have a 'lists' feature?