For me it’s: “Chronic cannabis use during adolescence impairs emotional development in adulthood” “Over achievement in crisis situations is an indicator of ADHD” Both of which provoke “Hmm, ya probably, and fuck you too”
I read a paper (non-scientific) that described someone experiencing dissociation. Did some academic reading and discovered that when it’s that extensive it’s a sign of PTSD and I went full confused mr krabs. Turns out I repressed a lot of shit. Four years later and I’m still in therapy!
I also had a similar experience when someone described executive dysfunction, I looked into published research and realized I had ADHD.
Do you a link to the paper?
Just mr krabs
Hmm I’ll try harder to find it after work, struggling to find it during my break. I read it in a creative writing class. The theme explored dissociation as a “super power”, how useful it can be when you have control contrasted with the struggle of losing control. There are several references to popular shows/movies, one example being the Invisible Woman. Some exploration of gender roles and sexism.
It’s driving me nuts that I cant find it haha. I may resort to downloading Canvas again to see if the old files are still available.
The Milgram experiment. It’s equally terrifying to think it was a fabricated experiment as it is to think it was genuinely performed.
Had to Google what that was, and I immediately recalled that old episode of the Simpons. I don’t think they exaggerated at all.
So, YOU are the guy conservatives over here in Germany are talking about all the time when they oppose the current legalization of cannabis? /s
But yeah, drugs are bad for kids.
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Dunning Kruger.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
There may be a great many things that I’m totally incompetent at and I just have no clue how bad I am.
I might have good news for you, there are people who claim that the effect is not because stupid people overestimate their abilities (and vice versa) but that it is just a statistical artefact. I’m not competent enough to tell if that’s correct, since I didn’t understand the argument completely, but if you want to build your own opinion, you can find many articles about it.
“What hit a little too close?”
The Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect or, less commonly, the Barnum–Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them, yet which are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
Too meta?
I didn’t have one huge revelation but more of a slow and steady work.
Internalazing that emotions do in fact exist was biggest revelation for me.
