Tag: psychology

Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities

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Conclusion 

The obligation to alleviate others’ pain can be found in most of the world’s moral systems. It also appears to be built into the structure of the mind by evolution, as evidenced by the human tendency to feel distress at signs of suffering. It is therefore not surprising that many people are motivated to help perceived victims of misfortune or disadvantage. But the downside of this proclivity is that it can also lead people to be easily persuaded that all victim signals are accurate signals, particularly when they perceive the alleged victim as being a “good person.” When this occurs, well-meaning people might allocate their material and social resources to those who are neither victims nor virtuous, which necessarily diverts resources from those who are legitimately in need. Effective altruism requires the ability to differentiate between false and true victims. Credulous acceptance of all virtuous victim signals as genuine can also enable and reward fraudulent claims, particularly by those with antisocial personality traits. Our work raises this possibility and by doing so it advances our understanding of how the moral goals of those who seek to minimize human suffering can be most effectively pursued.

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This study and this one—Virtuous victimhood as a Dark Triad resource transfer strategy—both detail the psychological mechanisms that underly successful strategies of group parasitism. Understanding the semi-complex nature of this strategy is important because USA and the West are today infested with a proliferation of parasitic groups working precisely this strategy. From BLM, to Soros et al funded DAs, to Jewish supremacists, to beta cuck feminists who have overrun academia and state governments, parasitism that feeds on public kindness and government boondoggle money (see also Catholic and Hebrew ‘virtuous’ illegal immigration orgs and the scams they work) has never been more serious or widespread. In Buddhist terms, each one of us is a ‘locus of imagination’ wandering in a realm of delusion. And each one of us chooses between living authentically by our own lights or by those of others. This paradoxical condition does not seem to have changed throughout all of human history, and history itself is also subject to this paradox, as is religion. ABN

Virtuous victimhood as a Dark Triad resource transfer strategy

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Conclusion

The idea that virtuous victim signalling is a strategic behavior manipulating moral agents to achieve resource transfer was tested and supported. Results were robust across both a direct replication and a test of robustness to alternative measures of tendency to victim signal. The effect sizes are substantial, suggesting that much of observed proclivity to victim signal likely is driven by narcissism and Machiavellianism. Evidence that the strategy is effective, and that the effect is robust to actual moral status and victimization implies that significant aid is being directed to narcissists who are not victims rather than to those legitimately deserving of aid. Sadism apparently extends this exploitation beyond exploiting those triggered to offering resource release, into a license to attack the accused.

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This is the core strategy of Jewish supremacy, including the sadism. ABN

Some differences between women and men

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This conclusion reaches into many other forms of work and endeavor. Academia is now filled with cucked women and the cucked men who can bear being around them. There is something like a 15% difference in several basic instincts between men and women. For example, women are more meticulous and capable with babies and this makes them also more neurotic. Apply the 15% on both sides to yield a ballpark 30% difference, which is deeply significant. For war and fighting, men are better at it physically, instinctually, mentally, and in how they bond in battle. Just these two basic instincts taken together reveal why men are better at taking care of their civilizations, their tribes, their nations. It also reveals why so much lefty politics is bonkers from a man’s point of view. I have heard that virtually all mental healthcare professionals are aware that 90% of their clients are lefties. This kind of reasoning is based on pattern recognition. It can be denied and/or fudged, but it is also obvious. It also obviously applies to races and ethnicities. The concomitant human instinctual susceptibility to brainwashing explains why so many fail to reckon with these obvious basic truths. Brainwashing is a weapon used in savage warfare to make you surrender your own assessment of reality for someone else’s and thereby accept total defeat. ABN

Technology and human transformation

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Most fundamental changes in human societies happen due to technological advances.

The next big change in human psychology will come from inexpensive, very sensitive brain scans.

These scans will show millions people in real-time how their brains are actually behaving and reacting. Presently unnoticed or concealed twinges of emotion will become conspicuously visible on a screen or within a hologram that surrounds our heads.

People will be able to use this technology in the company of a computer program or with a human partner. A good AI program will use brain-scan information to reveal much about us. We will learn stuff about how we actually function that very few are aware of today.

Having this knowledge will change the way we understand ourselves and our interactions with others. Rather than work almost exclusively with the vague stories we tell ourselves, we will be able to see how our brains (and bodies) actually function in real time.

The difference between our stories and how we actually function is very great. Great enough to completely change the landscape of what we now think of as human psychology.

There already exist inexpensive EEG rigs that are sort of good at measuring moods and honesty. There are also expensive ones with more capacity. Within a decade or two, these devices will be much better. An accurate lie-detector will surely be included in the consumer package.

This technology will rewrite our understanding of human psychology and remake the ways we think of human society today. If you want to get a head start on the future, learn how to do FIML now.

First posted 4/30/18

We see what we are used to seeing; and interpret it as we are used to

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A new study shows that what we see is often a distortion of what is really happening. A short article about that study provides a good overview: Altered images: New research shows that what we see is distorted by what we expect to see:

New research shows that humans “see” the actions of others not quite as they really are, but slightly distorted by their expectations.

The study is here: Perceptual teleology: expectations of action efficiency bias social perception.

I think it is fair to speculate that the conclusions of that study apply not just to visual information, but to all information. For example, much of what we consider to be psychological continuity is habit based on introspective deformities.

See Psychology as “signs of something else” for more on this topic.

See also: Seeing the best way forward: Intentionality cues bias action perception toward the most efficient trajectory.

first posted AUGUST 8, 2018

UPDATE: FIML practice accurately identifies and corrects all kinds of mental, psychological, emotional, and perceptual distortions as they happen in real-world settings. Pretty much everyone knows distortions are happening but we do almost nothing about them. Instead of dealing with distortions and preventing them from snowballing, virtually all people everywhere rely on default stock strategies to retreat from them, a technique which itself engenders fear and helplessness in the face of real human interaction. I believe the absence of anything resembling FIML practice in world history is testament to widespread hierarchical sociopsychological dependence on what are essentially clichés. ABN

Why the ‘Still Face’ Experiment by Ed Tronick sucks

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I find this experiment very disturbing because: 1) it intentionally upsets the baby; 2) it’s the mother doing it; 3) the mother is deliberately lying, deliberately manipulating her child; 4) the mother was taught to do this or told to do this or paid to do this by a researcher and she obeyed. Thus, both the baby and the mother are harmed by the researcher who should have known better. This experiment violates the Nuremberg Code by experimenting on a human being without their consent. I am sure some good has come from this experiment and the work of Ed Tronick, but I still don’t like it. I posted this because it came up this morning during a conversation with my partner. I do wonder what kind of mother would do this to her baby? And what kind of researcher would entice a mother to do this? It’s good information to have the baby’s distress confirmed, but not at the cost of several layers of inhumane deception. How many times was this done to how many babies? ABN

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Moreover, the few extra years of schooling largely yield group-think, which is abundantly evident in medicine, academia, much of science, all of MSM, etc. Rural, formally uneducated people have not spent their lives not learning. They know tons of stuff and their human instincts are generally intact, unlike smarmy academics who can’t see the forest for the trees, as above. ABN

Speech comprehension and context

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A new study on speech comprehension shows that humans respond to the “contextual semantic content of each word in a relatively time-locked fashion.”

These findings demonstrate that, when successfully comprehending natural speech, the human brain responds to the contextual semantic content of each word in a relatively time-locked fashion. (Source)

This process is roughly illustrated here:

While I do not doubt these findings for simple speech in simple contexts, I do wonder what the results would be for speech in psychologically complex contexts, whether that speech is simple or not.

I wonder this because I am certain that in almost all psychologically complex contexts (those rich with subjectivity, emotion, idiosyncratic memory or association, etc.) the “contextual semantic content of each word” will necessarily be different, often very different for each speaker.

Psychologically rich interpersonal speech is almost always fraught with contextual differences that can be very large. Sometimes participants know these differences exist and sometimes they don’t. It is very common for speakers to make major mistakes in this area, the most important area of speech for human psychological well-being.

It seems possible that EEG with increased sensitivity might one day be able to detect “context diversion” between speakers, but even if complex emotional information is also included, people will still have to talk about what is diverging from what.

My comments are not meant to detract from the very interesting findings posted above. I make them because these findings illustrate how inherently problematic real-time mutual comprehension of the “contextual semantic content” of all spoken words actually is.

FIML practice is the only way I know of today to find profound real-time mutual comprehension of complex interpersonal speech.

Furious at my fellow Asian mental health professionals for harping on “racism” when the real problem is parenting. Fck everyone who backlashed against Amy Chu calling out tiger parenting

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I’m a 31F mental health therapist specializing in asian american suicide. I’m about to present to my state’s suicide council to advocate for more awareness into the tiger parenting dynamic that causes suicide as someone who attempted when I was 16. I’m currently trying to gather research from the heads of my field (the American Psychological Association) and i. am. pissed. Every research article published by Asian American psychologists says the root cause of AA mental health is… racism by white people. They talk about white people causing the model minority pressure. WTF?! That pressure doesn’t come from THEM! It comes from our parents!

Yes we experience racism. But that is not the core of our issues as Asian American kids. Also mind you, when I was in school for my BA degree in psych (2011-2015) the research papers and articles I had to study in school NEVER used the asian demographic in their studies! it was always blacks and latinos! and now that we have representation its fucking skewed and not representative of what we actually go through. it was so invalidating and infuriating to read.

This is ripple effect of what happened in 2011 when Amy Chua came out with her book and outted the concept of tiger parenting. For the first time someone named what we were all going through. And we had something out there we can grab hold of and DO something about it.

But what did the Asian American community do instead?

They. rejected. it. They did the whole NoT eVeRy AsIAn. They made it a SIN to talk about the very real shit that is posted on here every single day. They hid our struggles because the optics looked so bad. They did the exact problem that’s causing problems in our community: shut up and keep quiet. I couldn’t fucking believe the backlash. I and so many other Asian American kids tried killing ourselves because of this tiger parenting shit. I’m a fucking therapist specializing in suicide for Asian Americans because no therapist in my 20 years of trying to get help for this problem know what the fuck to do.

I’m so livid. I’m out here specializing in AA suicide, about to talk to my state council and trying to find facts and research to justify more money into the nuances of asian american mental health and our own people are hurting us.

Just had to rant and get it off my chest. Now off work on my presentation and do better than these wimps.

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Perceptual distortions inevitably accrue and distort our psychologies

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Keep your eyes focused on the cross between the flashing images. The faces will appear grossly distorted in your peripheral field of vision. Now, consider that just as our eyes can distort faces as in the gif above, so our minds can and frequently do distort all of our perceptions, especially ones with psychological relevance. This is how our minds do not work well psychologically and emotionally. To compensate for psychological distortions most people in all cultures in the world are forced to cleave to whatever the default assumptions of their cultures are. This leaves us with plastic faces and conformist mannerisms, while inside our minds are filled with emotional distortions. As we carry these distortions through the years, our psychological misperceptions of ourselves and others can become deeply misshapen, leading to neurotic confusion on many levels. No general theory or general method can fix this problem, which at its core is an accumulation of idiosyncratic perceptual distortions held in memory (and the responses that arise from them). FIML practice is a specific activity designed to find and remove perceptual and psychological distortions. FIML will always be unique to the partners using it. It will always deal with their idiosyncratic distortions as they arise in real time. In this sense, FIML has no content except what you put into it. FIML is a tool that helps us see ourselves as we are really functioning in real-time. ABN