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Weary Wulf

[P] I want to further my case here that the reason NT hiverarchy turns to parasitism is due to impaired imagination that can't conceive of mutualism (which requires original thinking).

Aurism: sciencedirect.com/science/arti
ADHD: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/

These are just two atudies, but not much research is done on this. Still, the evidence that does exist seems to support my belief, and its the reason why ND is resistant to Dark Triad developments, unlike NTs.

#psychology#science#neurodiversity
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Frankie ✅

Why Letting Kids Find Loopholes in Rules May Help Their Social Development

A new study finds that when young kids find loopholes, or sneaky work-arounds, for instructions, they must apply advanced social and language skills

scientificamerican.com/article

Cute young girl carrying her maltipoo dog in public park
Scientific American · Why Letting Kids Find Loopholes in Rules May Help Their Social DevelopmentBy Charlotte Hu
#news#science#health
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“Mackay’s masterwork sets out in crystalline and quotable prose how men and women throughout history have been hustled, scammed, bamboozled and willingly led astray by themselves or others.”

—Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds is available as a free ebook from @gutenberg_org

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gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518

Project GutenbergMemoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by MackayFree kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
#Scottish#literature#19thcentury
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“Charles Mackay's book … enjoys extraordinarily high renown in the financial industry and among the press and the public. It also has an extraordinarily low reputation among historians. […] Mackay’s story provides another example of a renowned expert on bubbles who decides that ‘this time is different.’”

—Andrew Odlyzko, SSRN, 26 Feb 2011
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

Charles Mackay's Own Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Railway Mania Andrew Odlyzko Abstract Charles Mackay's book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" enjoys extraordinarily high renown in the financial industry and among the press and the public. It also has an extraordinarily low reputation among historians. This paper argues that Mackay's sins of commission were dwarfed by his sins of omission. He lived through several giant investment manias in Britain, yet he did not discuss them in his books. An investigation of Mackay's newspaper writings shows that he was one of the most ardent cheerleaders for the Railway Mania, the greatest and most destructive of these episodes of extreme investor exuberance. Mackay's story provides another example of a renowned expert on bubbles who decides that "this time is different." His moves through a sequence of delusions help explain the length and damage of the Railway Mania. He was a free market and technology enthusiast, and faced many issues that are important today, such as government ownership or regulation, interconnection, standardization, structural separation, and analogs to net neutrality. A crushing national debt and high unemployment in an economy pulling out of a deep depression (and in perceived danger of falling into another one) were very important in shaping attitudes towards railway expansion. The analogies and contrasts between Mackay's time and ours are instructive.
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“its power as a starter in crowd psychology comes from Mackay’s insistence on humanising the follies he describes. No macroeconomic constructs here – just good old greed, optimism, superstition & cunning plans”

—Charles Mackay (1814–1889) was born #OTD, 27 March – best remembered today for his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds

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ScienceCommunicator

The people that are less cognitively aware & have lower levels of honesty-humility are extremist side choosers. In fact, you have to work at not simply choosing sides, because #nepotism is an evolutionary adaptation.

#Religion? Choose a side! #Politics! Which side are you on? #War? Where do your loyalties lie? Wife or Husband arguing with a stranger? Whom do you side with? regardless of whose wrong or whose right?

#science#EvolutionaryPsychology#psychology
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Elizabeth Lee

Doing another updated #introduction since most of my pertinent info is in my profile bio.

I'm a late-diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic who joined Fedi in '22 (she/her). I love all things #horror, am learning #Welsh/ #Cymraeg & have a #cat named Moon (short for Amunet).

Other special interests: #Android #FOSS apps, #Horses, #Zoology, #Psychology, British TV, #JoeDallesandro films & reading (#fantasy, science journals, historical mystery, etc).

Special talent: Causing hilarious misunderstandings.

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Julia Serano

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