Psychology
55 entries in this category
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Affirmative Action Causes No Reverse DiscriminationCivil rights protections and affirmative action do not discriminate against white people.
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Gender Care Ethical for Dysphoric KidsGender-affirming medical interventions for children with gender dysphoria satisfy basic standards of medical ethics on risk versus benefit.
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Policing Disparities Prove DiscriminationDisproportionate police searches of Black and Latino drivers indicate intentional racial discrimination unrelated to crime rates.
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Anti-Bias Training WorksDiversity, equity, and inclusion trainings effectively reduce bias and discriminatory behavior.
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Race-IQ Inquiry Must Be SilencedOpen discussion and research on race differences in IQ are so dangerous that they justify censorship, institutional bans, or self-imposed ignorance to prevent racism and stereotypes.
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Test-Blind Admissions Promote EquityEliminating standardized testing in college admissions would promote racial equity without harming academic preparation.
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Implicit Bias Test Predicts DiscriminationThe Implicit Association Test measures unconscious racial bias that causes discriminatory behavior.
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Social Media Safe for AdolescentsSocial media is a reasonably safe consumer product for children and adolescents even when used heavily.
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Transgenderism Reveals True Inner SelfSudden transgender and nonbinary identifications among youth represent authentic innate gender identities finally freed for expression.
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Black-White IQ Gap is 100% EnvironmentalThe Black-White IQ gap is entirely caused by environmental factors like socioeconomic status and education.
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Learning Styles Improve Instruction OutcomesMatching teaching methods to students' preferred learning styles such as visual, auditory, or kinesthetic enhances learning outcomes.
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School Spending Closes Racial GapsRacial gaps in school achievement are primarily caused by lower spending on black students, and increasing spending will narrow those gaps.
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SAT/ACT Scores Are Biased PredictorsStandardized test scores like SAT/ACT are less predictive of college success than high school GPA and exhibit bias against disadvantaged or minority students.
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Places Drive Homicide DifferencesDifferences in firearm homicide rates between adjacent neighborhoods are primarily caused by environmental features of places rather than differences in people.
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Microaggressions Cause Mental Health HarmMicroaggressions cause harm and have negative impacts on health and mental health, as inferred from correlations in nonexperimental studies.
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Airport Profiling is Racial DiscriminationAirport security must avoid profiling Arab or Middle Eastern-looking travelers to prevent racial discrimination and disparate impact.
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Grit is More Important than IQGrit is more important than IQ when you're trying to become successful.
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Schools Can Make All Students EqualSchools and equalized environments can eliminate or substantially narrow individual differences in student achievement and learning outcomes.
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3-Cueing System Helps Kids Learn to ReadChildren learn to read the same way they acquire spoken language, by guessing words from contextual, semantic, and syntactic cues rather than systematic phonics.
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Segregation Harms Black Children's Self-EsteemThe Clark doll experiment proved that segregation caused black children to develop low self-esteem and prefer white dolls over brown ones.
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Universal Health Standards Fit All RacesClinical standards like growth charts and BMI thresholds assume a single human prototype applicable across all populations regardless of ancestry.
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Honest Race Discussion Bad StrategyOpenly discussing race differences in intelligence and outcomes repels allies, alienates voters, and weakens efforts against progressivism.
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There Are Five Stages of GriefGrief universally progresses through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance in sequence.
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IQ Tests Are Inaccurate or BiasedIQ testing is a pseudoscientific hoax that measures arbitrary puzzle-solving ability rather than genuine, hereditary intelligence predictive of life outcomes.
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Marshmallow Test Predicts Life SuccessThe length of time children delay eating a marshmallow predicts their long-term success in life.
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Race is Entirely a Social ConstructRace is a social construct with no genetic basis, and there are no socially important differences between human ancestry groups.
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Gender is a Social ConstructGender is a social construct distinct from biological sex.
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Epigenetics Transmits Ancestral TraumaEnvironmental stresses and traumas are transmitted across multiple human generations via heritable epigenetic modifications.
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No Racial Differences in Athletic AbilityRacial gaps in athletic performance such as West African dominance in sprinting and East African dominance in distance running stem from culture, stereotypes, or environment rather than genetics.
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Flynn Effect Shows Real IQ GainsMean IQ scores rose substantially during the 20th century due to a genuine increase in the capacity for intelligence.
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Trauma Lodges in Body TissuesTraumatic experiences embed in the body and tissues, causing ongoing harm relieved by somatic processing.
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System 1 Thinking Causes Irrational ViolenceHuman errors, biases, and violence stem from fast System 1 thinking that can be corrected by deliberate System 2 reflection.
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Specialists Required for Effective TherapyOnly licensed mental health specialists can effectively deliver evidence-based psychotherapy for depression.
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Willpower Builds Long-Term SuccessExercising state self-control through willpower in the moment reliably leads to long-term success and better life outcomes.
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Myers-Briggs Reveals True PersonalityThe Myers-Briggs Type Indicator reliably measures personality and predicts job performance, compatibility, and life outcomes by sorting people into 16 distinct types.
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Brain Differences Are Caused by Structural RacismRace differences in brain structure serve as a reminder of structural racism's public health effects.
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Biden Not Suffering From Cognitive DeclineConcerns that Joe Biden is experiencing cognitive decline or senility constitute a false narrative spread by misinformation.
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Rising Diagnoses Signal Mental Illness EpidemicSharp increases in mental health diagnoses among children reflect a genuine surge in the prevalence of mental disorders.
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No Recent Human EvolutionThe human mind is adapted to the conditions of 10,000 years ago and has not changed since.
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Trauma Causes Borderline Personality DisorderBorderline personality disorder is mostly caused by childhood trauma, especially sexual abuse.
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Skull Shape Reveals Mental FacultiesThe contours of the skull reveal the size of brain organs responsible for specific mental faculties and personality traits.
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Transference Drives PsychotherapyClients unconsciously project past figures' feelings onto therapists, a core mechanism resolvable for cure in psychodynamic therapy.
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Parents Primarily Shape ChildrenChildren turn out the way they do primarily because of their parents' child-rearing styles.
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Lab Studies Predict Real BehaviorControlled lab experiments in social psychology reliably demonstrate effects that occur and matter in the real world.
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Facilitated Communication Reveals Hidden AbilitiesFacilitators enable non-verbal individuals with autism to spell coherent messages on keyboards, unveiling normal intelligence.
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Stereotype Threat Impairs PerformanceReminding people of negative group stereotypes subtly causes them to underperform on relevant tasks like math.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel Explain the Rise of the WestHistory followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.
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Oliver Sacks' Stories Were AccurateOliver Sacks' published case studies accurately depicted real patients and neurological truths.
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Beauty is in the Eye of the BeholderThere is no objective standard of attractiveness; it all depends on who is looking and their personal and cultural point of view.
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Blue Zones Confer Exceptional LongevityCertain regions known as Blue Zones around the world feature significantly higher rates of centenarians and exceptional longevity due to unique lifestyle factors.
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Ego Depletion Limits WillpowerSelf-control depletes like a limited resource after use, causing subsequent failures.
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Skull Measurements of Different Races was BiasedSamuel Morton's skull measurements exemplified unconscious bias leading scientists to falsify data in support of racist views.
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Chemical Imbalance Causes DepressionDepression stems from a chemical imbalance in the brain that antidepressants correct through biological mechanisms.
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Theory of Multiple IntelligencesHuman potential is best understood through at least eight distinct, semi-autonomous cognitive abilities
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Classical Standard Errors Accurately Measure UncertaintyClassical standard errors provide reliable measures of uncertainty in regression coefficients because data noise is evenly distributed across observations.