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Use this tag for questions about understanding, predicting, and changing the thoughts, emotions, and specifically psychological theories of behavior should use this tag. However, this excludes questions about specific claims, beliefs, or superstitions that would be better categorized under other, more specific tags, including behavior, brain, consciousness, superstition, esp, ghosts, religion, spirituality, energy, and meditation.
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Is there any scientific support for psychoanalysis?
I think the accepted answer is in some ways misleading. There are still a good number of psychoanalysts who practice therapy in a way that is fairly orthodox to Freud (or interpretation of his work) a …
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Is the Q-on-the-forehead test a valid method of determining extraversion and ability to lie?
Quoting from Haas 1984, Experiment 3 which is the one examining individual differences.
Sixty-two undergraduates (15 men and 47 women) participated in Experiment 3.
Power was very low, hence th …
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Have any questions where the underlying cause was thought to have had both a psychological a...
This question pertains to the nature-nurture debate, as can be seen from the topics given as examples (IQ, religiousness) even though the terms (innate vs. "social") aren't the usual ones.
There is an …
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Do opposite types in romantic relationships attract?
However, at least for personality (in this case Big 5, extraversion, neuroticism etc.) there is evidence, that it is actually not similarity that drives relationship satisfaction.
Dyrenforth et al. ( …
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Are first impressions unchangeable?
I did not find the study you mentioned, but I know a very similar classic (371 citations on Google Scholar). Maybe you meant Ambady & Rosenthal (1993).
They used the thin slices paradigm (showing peo …
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Are 1 in 25 people sociopaths?
Dtander's answer is quite alright, but because you kept asking about the problem with self-report:
First: There is hardly any incentive to pretend that you don't feel empathy, so an estimate that we …
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Does smiling too much indicate low social status?
This social psychology experiment which may not generalize to other settings find that male interviewers smile less than their applicants in a simulated job interview, female interviewers do not. …
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Do children who kill animals turn out to be violent?
I quote the Wikipedia article on psychopathy
Three behaviors — bedwetting, cruelty to animals and firestarting, known as the Macdonald triad — were first described by J.M. MacDonald as possible in …
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Are programmers likely to be musicians?
I took this questions to mean "Are good programmers more likely to be good musicians than non-programmers?" because the real question is a bit trivial (as one comment indicates) and I thought I could …
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Do romantic relationships have a negative impact on academic performance?
Yes (at least there are cross-sectional correlations back up your intuition)
Bukowski et al. (2002) found a negative link. Their study was cited 39 times, pointing to more acceptance in the scientifi …
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Does willpower depend on the amount of glucose in the body?
You're lucky, the intense debate about psychology's (and other sciences') false-positive problem has spawned an article (by Schimmack, hailing from your FU Berlin by the way) which uses Gaillot's init …
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