Author Topic: Medical decolonization  (Read 2267 times)

Zea_mays

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Re: Psychological decolonization
« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2021, 04:07:00 pm »
One thing that always annoyed me is how anyone who deviates from whatever Western medicine categorizes as "normal" needs to be numbed with drugs.

Western psychologists are finally acknowledging what ancient societies have always known--there are multiple "normal" personality archetypes.

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Social psychology researchers use extensive training and complex empirical tools to explore the roots of human behavior. However, a new study by Yale psychologists found a surprising group of people are particularly good at accurately assessing truths about humans’ “social nature” without formal training or tools, they report March 15 in the journal Social Psychology.

So who are the best amateur social psychologists?  Introverts prone to melancholy seem to be more astute at understanding how we behave in groups than their gregarious peers, the researchers found.
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Gollwitzer and co-author John Bargh asked more than 1,000 subjects questions about how people on average feel, think, and feel in social contexts [...] Not surprisingly, intelligence and wanting to engage with complex problems was a key predictor, the researchers said. But they also found that introverts tended to answer more accurately than extroverts, as did people with lower self-esteem and those who reported being more lonely.
https://news.yale.edu/2018/03/15/study-sad-lonely-people-more-likely-be-natural-social-psychologists

Of course, the scientist in the article suspects this must be because melancholic people are empiricists who have spent much time "observing human nature"...rather than just being innately empathetic.