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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • Not for me (34m). I like having my niblings around and play with them, but I like it even more to give them back into their parents care after half an hour. I simply could not stand to be responsible for another human being and devoting almost every minute of my life to them for several years, and taking the appropriate measures to ensure I will not father a child was the best decision in my life.






  • I think you have some misconceptions about psychology in general. E.G. you name Stanford Prison, and then explain that it has not been replicated. The act of trying (and failing) to replicate those results is psychological research, and then you reference this research as argument against psychology. Also, you seem to suggest like psychology is deterministic (A happens to someone, so they react in way B), while it is a probabilistic science (if A happens to someone, the chance that they will react in way B increases by X% to Y% with a probability of 95%).

    One comment on your example: The prisoner’s dilemma (the way I know it) is not a psychological, but a game theoretical concept and is usually applied with the assumption of rational actors a one-shot interaction, which means that it doesn’t apply to your situation with your friend.

    In general, it seems that your disdain for psychology stems from laypersons’ broad and biased understanding of psychological concepts.

    Disclaimer: I am not a psychologist.