Our results indicate that people show inaccurate skills at differentiating between altered and non-altered images, with an accuracy of 58%, and only identifying the modified images 46.5% of the time. We also track user features such as age, answering time, confidence, providing deep analysis of how such variables influence on the users’ performance.
Tag: psychology
Is decluttering a disorder?
No. But, here’s the concern trolling anyway.
Unlike hoarding, which was officially reclassified as a disorder in 2013, compulsive decluttering doesn’t appear as its own entry in the DSM; instead, it’s typically considered a manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder. “I see it all the time. People rarely come into my office because they have a problem with being too efficient or wanting to declutter. They’re not sleeping at night and they’re feeling jittery and irritable … they’ll sit in my office and straighten my pillows. They’re not comfortable until everything is in order.”
Veteran mental health
For every active duty soldier killed in combat, 22 veterans died by their own hand.
“Look at the people who go to the military. Who are they, for the most part? They aren’t well-adjusted in the first place. If you want to send people to the military who don’t come back with trauma, send well-adjusted people. But well-adjusted people don’t want to go to war.”
Paris Syndrome sufferers
Paris Syndrome sufferers have been Japanese tourists, and the cause of their symptoms, which include “acute delusions, hallucinations, dizziness, sweating, and feelings of persecution,” is thought to be linked to extreme disappointment that Paris is not always the magical, romantic wonderland it’s so often made out to be in the movies
Envy Good
No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we hadn’t taken. Envy is frequently corrosive and destructive. And yet, the right kind of envy can serve an important personal and social function. It spurs competition and improvement. The title of a recent paper from the University of California, Santa Barbara, nicely captures the effect. It’s called “Inspired by Hope, Motivated by Envy.”
Security Practices
We report on the results of 2 online surveys — 1 with 231 security experts and 1 with 294 MTurk participants — on what the practices and attitudes of each group are. Our findings show a discrepancy between the security practices that experts and non-experts report taking. For instance, while experts most frequently report installing software updates, using 2-factor authentication and using a password manager to stay safe online, non-experts report using antivirus software, visiting only known websites, and changing passwords frequently.
Fashion twins
If we’re going to a party, we’ll discuss what to wear like any other couple, except the difference is we want to look the same. Someone once told me that if she and her husband came down wearing the same color top, they’d change. What a shame to be so insecure. We both have very strong identities as individuals and wearing the same clothes doesn’t affect this; clothes don’t make your personality. Instead, dressing the same gives me a lovely feeling of closeness to Donald.
About Isn’t About You
They offer specific evidence on their personal behavior to prove that for them politics is about policy, medicine is about health, charity is about helping, etc. But aside from that, they show little interest in what such hypotheses might imply about the world in which they live.
The Brain Hates Slowpokes
In the 2000s, psychologist Richard Wiseman found worldwide walking speeds had gone up by 10%.
The pace of our lives is linked to culture. Researchers have shown society’s accelerating pace is shredding our patience. In tests, psychologists and economists have asked subjects if they would prefer a little bit of something now or a lot of it later; say, $10 today versus $100 in a year, or 2 pieces of food now versus 6 pieces in 10 seconds.
Subjects—both human and other animals—often go for the now, even when it’s not optimal. 1 study showed that exposing people to “the ultimate symbols of impatience culture”—fast-food symbols like McDonald’s golden arches—increases their reading speed and preference for time-saving products, and makes them more likely to opt for small rewards now over larger ones later.
Our rejection of slowness is especially apparent when it comes to technology. “Everything is so efficient nowadays,. We’re less and less able to wait patiently.” We now practically insist that Web pages load in a 0.25 seconds, when we had no problem with 2 seconds in 2009 and 4 seconds in 2006. As of 2012, videos that didn’t load in 2 seconds had little hope of going viral.
Memetic engineering
Right now people in my professional world (content platform pontificators) are avidly discussing the traffic garnered by a single picture of a blue-and-black dress that could also—depending on how your neurons are firing—look white-and-gold. “It’s the perfect meme, can never be topped: (1) Putting people on 2 teams, (2) a hint of magic, and (3) some science.”
Gregor J. Rothfuss 