For narcissistic people, the gap between perception and reality may go far deeper than we thought
#psychology #selfpsychology #narcissism #self #ostracism #psychotherapy #socialpsychology
SERRCissä kriittistä pohdintaa itsesurmaamisen tutkimisesta ja ehkäisystä, https://social-epistemology.com/2025/03/12/a-critical-inventory-of-suicidology-and-suicide-prevention-part-i-michaela-hintermayr/
Osa 2 löytyy tuon perästä ja tästä: https://social-epistemology.com/2025/03/14/a-critical-inventory-of-suicidology-and-suicide-prevention-part-ii-michaela-hintermayr/
Lähteissä en huomannut SEP-entryä, joka on hyvä johdatus käsitteeseen, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/suicide/. Viime päivinä näkyy maailmalla kohistun monimutkaisia päätöstilanteita ja nopeaa ja hidasta ajattelua tutkineen Daniel Kahnemanin avustetusta itsesurmasta, vaikka se tapahtui liki vuosi sitten.
Socially dominant individuals are more confident but not necessarily more competent, finds study
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-socially-dominant-individuals-confident-necessarily.html
How being alone can weaken social identity, with broad implications for group processes and societal cohesiveness
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-weaken-social-identity-broad-implications.html
In my course on Christian nationalism in the contemporary US, we're using subculture identity theory and social identity complexity theory to explore the relationship between CN and antipathy toward racial, religious, and cultural minorities.
Much of the work in this area has been done by Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry and their colleagues.
The Authoritarian Personality, Closed Mind, Social Dominance, and Aversive Racism theories, although rarely applied in our country, offer important contributions to understanding and expanding the debate on racism in Brazil, challenging the notion that imported theories are inadequate for local contexts. #Racism #SocialPsychology
Read Paideia's press release.
"The privatization of American leisure is one part of a much bigger story. Americans are spending less time with other people than in any other period for which we have trustworthy data, going back to 1965. Between that year and the end of the 20th century, in-person socializing slowly declined. From 2003 to 2023, it plunged by more than 20 percent, according to the American Time Use Survey, an annual study conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among unmarried men and people younger than 25, the decline was more than 35 percent. Alone time predictably spiked during the pandemic. But the trend had started long before most people had ever heard of a novel coronavirus and continued after the pandemic was declared over. According to Enghin Atalay, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Americans spent even more time alone in 2023 than they did in 2021. (He categorized a person as “alone,” as I will throughout this article, if they are “the only person in the room, even if they are on the phone” or in front of a computer.)
Eroding companionship can be seen in numerous odd and depressing facts of American life today. Men who watch television now spend seven hours in front of the TV for every hour they spend hanging out with somebody outside their home. The typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends in face-to-face contact with friends of her own species. Since the early 2000s, the amount of time that Americans say they spend helping or caring for people outside their nuclear family has declined by more than a third.
Self-imposed solitude might just be the most important social fact of the 21st century in America."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091
"In the debate over whether technology is harming Generation Z, The Anxious Generation’s recommendations — no social media before 16, no smartphones before high school — are gaining traction with parents (and celebrities like Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey). Haidt is being cited in legislative efforts to keep minors off social media in Alabama, Florida, and Australia, and schools are banning phones, another favorite reform of his.
But scholars who study how technology affects youth and well-being — topics on which Haidt has done almost no academic research — accuse him of exploiting parents’ fears. Many other researchers have failed to find persuasive evidence that social media is a major factor in mental-health outcomes. The Anxious Generation, critics say, conflates correlation with causation: Just because smartphone use rose over a period of growing teen depression and anxiety, “the great rewiring of childhood” is not necessarily “causing an epidemic of mental illness,” as the book’s subtitle asserts. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, has noted that research “has not shown a causal link,” while lawsuits from dozens of states accuse Facebook and Instagram of making their apps addictive and harmful for children."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/jonathan-haidt-started-a-social-media-war-did-he-win
Maybe it's time to update my #introduction after more than four years on #Mastodon?
I'm a #PhD of #Psychology and #GenderStudies. I work as a school #psychologist and love my work; the academic world wasn't for me.
My main areas are #GroupPsychology, #SocialPsychology and #CriticalPsychology. Also interested in #FeministPsychology, #SocioculturalPsychology, #PhilosophyOfMind and #Phenomenology.
I blog (in #Swedish) at https://fenomenologen.se.
