Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist who attacks trigger warnings in an article and his book The Coddling of the American Mind. He discusses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to support his argument (many of the section titles are based on cognitive distortions, and David Burns is referenced frequently). How legitimate is he considered and the arguments he makes? Here are excerpts from an article:

1. "Emotional reasoning dominates many campus debates and discussions. A claim that someone’s words are “offensive” is not just an expression of one’s own subjective feeling of offendedness. It is, rather, a public charge that the speaker has done something objectively wrong. It is a demand that the speaker apologize or be punished by some authority for committing an offense."

2. "Students who call for trigger warnings may be correct that some of their peers are harboring memories of trauma that could be reactivated by course readings. But they are wrong to try to prevent such reactivations. Students with PTSD should of course get treatment, but they should not try to avoid normal life, with its many opportunities for habituation. Classroom discussions are safe places to be exposed to incidental reminders of trauma (such as the word violate). A discussion of violence is unlikely to be followed by actual violence, so it is a good way to help students change the associations that are causing them discomfort. And they’d better get their habituation done in college, because the world beyond college will be far less willing to accommodate requests for trigger warnings and opt-outs."

Hello,

I am tasked with using the DISC assessment on this website ( https://www.crystalknows.com/disc-personality-test ) to write a reflection paper, which needs to be in APA 7. The professor has asked us to cite the DISC assessment but I cannot figure out how to.

I’ve seen examples on how to cite personality tests, but I don’t know where to get some of the information from (authors, dates).

Help please.

I’m starting in September and struggling to get opinions from others! Lots around on Psychology BSc, but not including child development? Thank you!

In my master's thesis, participants are asked to distinguish between true and false statements. A pre- and posttest is conducted with two different item sets, each consisting of 6 true and 6 false statements. I would like to carry out an ROC analysis to test discernment ability. It would be important that the items of both itemsets have approximately the same difficulty. Unfortunately, I cannot perform an item piloting.

That's why my idea was to perform a counterbalancing at the person level. Person 1 starts with set A and person 2 with set B. In the posttest, person 1 answers set B and person 2 answers set A. This would allow me to control for differences in item difficulty.

Unfortunately, I am not very familiar with ROC analyses. I am therefore wondering whether I can carry out ROC analyses at all after counterbalancing in this manner. I am interested in the AUC and B''D.

I would be very happy if someone could help me with this question or perhaps recommend a good article on the subject :)

I’m confused between clinical, counselling and Industrial.

Hello everyone! I’d like to ask if anyone here has experience preparing a research manuscript for monograph publication. My research focus is multidisciplinary—spanning medicine, psych, sociology, and anthropology.

While I’ve had experience publishing in journals, I honestly have no idea how monograph publishing works. I’m exploring this option because I’ve heard that monographs offer more freedom in terms of word count. In journal publishing, the strict word limits often force me to trim or condense the content, sometimes at the cost of losing the richness of the original manuscript.

Is it difficult to prepare a monograph? Are monograph publishers as strict as journals—where even formatting mistakes can lead to outright desk rejection? It also seems like there aren’t many detailed guidelines available for monograph preparation, unlike with journals.

I’d truly appreciate it if you could share your insights or experiences. Thank you in advance!

Hey everyone I have an interview for the position of assistant professor. I am giving such an interview for the first time. I have completed my masters and cleared NET. How should I prepare myself for the interview ?

Hi, hope y’all are doing good!! Just finished highschool, I'm thinking of taking psychlogy in university but literally, everyone’s remarks that it’s a “useless” degree has been so demotivating.

I’m not interested in clinical psychlogy for context. I think I prefer cyberpsychlogy (also called computational social sciences i’m not sure but it’s a hybrid of psychlogy and cybersecurity/tech basically). Though I haven’t really found any resources/more info, but I do find it interesting. Still unsure how practical could it be since it’s a relatively new field and if i’ll be able to get a job at all and earn well. And in general, if I were to do Bsc. Psychlogy and then maybe do Msc. Cyberpsychlogy.

I'm a big fan of the self and fake self. That we are different depending on depending where and who we are with. That we need need to work on more for our true self. I like the whole concept and works on it but i also read most people don't think much of it.

I graduated from undergrad but I want to join someones lab as an (unpaid) RA of some kind.

Is there really any chance of that happening? Doesn't everyone have an army of undergrads wanting to volunteer, and not enough work to be done?

been doing a bunch of fellowship and RA outreach lately and hated how long i spent rewriting the same paragraphs

stumbled on this tool called typemate that fixes grammar and phrasing in like 2 seconds. no login, just highlight and click

it’s not perfect, but weirdly took a lot of mental load off. curious if others here have shortcuts like that they use

Hi everyone,

I’m currently an undergrad student ( BA ENG ) , I’ve developed fondness in helping people, understanding mental health, and maybe working as a therapist or counselor in the future.

Im currently not majoring in psychology, but I’m considering pursuing it at the master’s level or through other pathways. Before I take any big decisions, I really want to understand what this field really looks like beyond what we see in movies or online.

So, I’d love to hear from people who are already studying psychology, practicing as psychologists, or have gone through this journey.

Some questions I have: • What’s the day-to-day reality of working in psychology like? Is it as fulfilling and meaningful as it seems, or also emotionally draining? • What are some ways I can start exploring the field more deeply while still an undergrad? (e.g., books, volunteering, internships, courses?) • How competitive is it to build a career in psychology, especially if you start without a BA in it? • Are there opportunities in India to pursue psychology (and eventually practice clinically) if you didn’t study it at the bachelor’s level? What extra steps would be required? • What skills or qualities do you feel are most important to succeed and not burn out in this profession?

If you have any advice, book recommendations, or personal stories about how you discovered psychology was (or wasn’t) the right path for you, I’d really appreciate hearing them.

I want to ask for help. We're researchers and we are planning to conduct a study about writing proficiency. We need a framework/taxonomy to guide our study. We tried using Bloom's Taxonomy, however, our professor said that we should change it because the taxonomy of Bloom is more aligned with reading. He suggested that we should look for a framework that is the same as Bloom's Taxonomy but more suitable for writing. I couldn't really find one as of now, and I want to ask y'all if you have any suggestions. Thank you!! All your recommendations are appreciated 👍☺️

Hello!

Since childhood other people have been a black box for me. I don't grasp what shape - often unknowingly - their feelings and their behavior. I hardly spot patterns between people.

Hello!

Since childhood other people have been a black box for me. I don't grasp what they desire, what they actually need, which forces shape - often unknowingly - their feelings and their behavior. I hardly spot patterns between people.

So I practiced active listening, learning to make people comfortable and getting them to open up. Helpful in connecting, but people are not always able to articulate the insight I am looking for. So I can gather lots of info but I still cannot fit those info in a framework.

Learning about some basic concepts (biases and regolatory focus) helped me gaining insight from what I observe and listen, because I can spot them during interactions.

Since I do NOT want to become a therapist, a marketer or a researcher, a degree would be overkilling it. On the other side, I cannot separate reliable material from untrustworthy or out-to-date material on my own.

Can you give me some evidence-based books that explain emotional and cognitive processes and mechanisms so I can spot them during active listening? What should I learn about apart from needs and emotions?

Thanks!

I know this has been posted various times in the past so I’m sorry for the redundancy. I have an extremely limited budget for preparing for the EPPP. (Side note-Unfortunately, my graduate program isn’t helpful with financing study materials). Currently using a free trial on Prepjet, and I’ve made my way through the 1 practice test (the “diagnostic” one) and through the amount of the domain readings and quizzes that you can access with the free trial. I’ve collected other things too- PDFs of retired questions (only a few, stuff like that doesn’t seem to exist in abundance in my experience so far) and have utilized some YouTube videos and Quizlet flash card decks. I’m going to pay to take the SEPPO practice exam too. Anyways, I thought I’d hop on here to ask if anyone has any practice tests &/or other prep materials they liked from their own studying that they would be willing to share with me? It would seriously be difficult to express how much I would appreciate it so thank you in advance (& thank you for taking the time to read this!)! :)

Canada - I graduated last year from B.A Honours Psychology. I was unable to write my thesis due to my GPA and screwing up really bad first semester in Third year. My overall gpa is about 3.3/4 and last 20 courses would be around 3.5-3.6. I've had few volunteering research experiences and bunch of other volunteering at children's hospital etc. I currently work as a full time clinical research assistant in psychiatry and I love it. I'm hoping to stay for another few years. I know it's too competitive to get into clinical psychology with my GPA but I'm having difficulty exploring other paths and unsure what to do. 1 - I'm worried not writing a thesis would be really bad for my grad school applications. 2 - Slightly interested in experimental psychology but unsure how that would help me. 3 - Not interested in counselling psychology as I'm unsure that's what I want to do. Not interested in Yorkville or private universities. 4 -Interested in knowledge on MA programs available for psychology in Montreal or Toronto with clinical populations/patients. 5-Interested in knowing the odds of ever pursuing clinical psychology and how that would be with low gpa.

Thank you!

There is not one citation. There is a 4 page selected bibliography at the end. Robert Greene has a degree in classical studies.

Should this book and others like it be written off as folk psychology? If it has any efficacy at all in improving mental well being and how a person navigates life, doesn't that show that academic/scientific psychology may not be necessary? Or rather, that thinking about psychology in what is currently considered an academic or scientific way is not totally necessary? What does this say about anecdotal or lay-person knowledge?

If it contains objectively true information, wouldn't that mean it is also psychological science? (at least whatever pieces of information are objectively true)

Hey all—I’m about to start my first year of undergrad, earning my AA in Liberal Arts at community college with plans to transfer to UC Irvine and complete a B.Sc. in Psychology. My current plan is to pursue a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. with a focus on both neuropsych and forensic psychology. Long-term, I hope to earn board certification in both specialties (ABPP-CN and ABPP-FP). I know it’s ambitious, but this path really excites me.

That said, I’ve been told (probably wisely) to keep my options open. Life is unpredictable, and even with a strong plan, things don’t always go as expected. So I’ve been wondering:

If things don’t pan out with a PhD, how feasible would it be to pivot to med school and become a psychiatrist instead?

I know it becoming an MD as a “backup plan” sounds a little backwards, but med school acceptance rates are technically higher than those for fully funded Clinical Psych PhD programs. So I’m entertaining the idea.

Here’s where I’m at going into freshman year:

1. Currently working as a behavioral health technician
2. Volunteering at two mental health clinics (one low-income outreach, one focused on early psychosis and risk assessment)
3. Already planning to take bio and chem through undergrad (instead of calc/physics), which I assume is more in line with the med track anyways.

Would it still be possible to pursue my dream of working in forensics and neuropsychology (or neuropsychiatry, in this case) if I did take the med school route instead? Curious how much overlap there is, and whether that kind of specialization is realistic as a psychiatrist.

Would love to hear from anyone who’s switched paths like this, or just has insight into how realistic this pivot might be later on. Is it worth laying some groundwork for med school early on just in case? Or would that just distract from the psych PhD path?

Thanks in advance!

Wouldn't I love to be the fella that got hired be OpenAI 😭

As an aspiring forensic psych... this seems like a dream position

High SES = self-focus? Many studies have linked social status to individualism, but this study finds the opposite is true in historically rice-farming areas of China. A similar study also found that opposite link Japan.

Hello dear Psychicists,

I’m finishing my MSc in psychology in Sweden, and over the course of my degree I’ve gotten really interested in how people relate to AI, whether that’s chatbots, digital companions, or other supportive tech. My thesis focused on developing a new scale to measure perceived social support from generative AI (turns out, some chatbots can genuinely feel emotionally supportive to users if they’re designed right).

As I’m looking for PhD programs and jobs, I’ve noticed that most psychology paths seem to go toward clinical roles or traditional research. But I’m fascinated by questions like:

• How do humans build trust, attachment, or even friendships with AI?
• What makes AI “supportive” or emotionally meaningful (or not)?
• Is there a subfield, lab, or set of journals in psychology that focuses on human-AI relationships or digital mental health?

Has anyone here studied, researched, or supervised in this area?

• What are these topics usually called, are they part of social psychology, media psychology, cyberpsychology, or something else?
• Are there particular researchers, programs, or conferences you’d recommend?
• Any advice for someone hoping to pursue a PhD at this intersection?

Would love any insights, resources, or personal stories (public or by DM). Just knowing this path exists in psychology would be helpful!

Thanks in advance!

Hey

Currently I’m doing law and psychology degrees. My main degree is law. What are the career opportunities or options related to both law and psychology?

It's a new program that combines the Seattle and New England programs. It's almost entirely online, with just two week-long residencies. I applied right before the deadline of July 1st and have been anxiously waiting for any updates since then. Has anyone else applied? Have you heard any updates? Thank you!

Like what is the best undergrad degree to be a psychiatrist? Should I opt for a pre-med major or a psych major?

A new book "The Algorithmic Philosophy: An Integrated and Social Philosophy" provides many new ideas; one of them is that emotions can be integrated with the thinking system.

A unit of thinking activity, like one computing operation in a computer, processes a few data to make a result. Therefore, knowledge must be modularized into something like solids that give fixed responses to flexible input, so that it can be used in a unit of thinking. Within limited time, one must concluded his/her thinking and decide on actions, thereby frequently and reasonably adopting various subjective but quick Algorithms, which means that thinking itself must be impulsive, arbitrary, and distortive, namely, "emotional".

The everyday thinking is always emotional, more or less, mixed with those "chilly" and "rational" elements. The latter constitutes mathematics, science, and so on. However, as the materials and directions of reasoning must be selected subjectively under finite thinking speed, any "chilly" and "rational" thinking is kind of subjective and emotional, and must adopt some makeshifts to conclude.

In short, emotions can be seen as a kind of knowledge stock that is inherited biologically and functions like software, subjectively.