CHOP-ick. Associate Professor of Social/Personality Psychology at Michigan State University My opinions do not reflect the views and opinions of my employer.
East Lansing, MI
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Recently, a date said they were an INTJ (i.e., Myers Briggs). I told her, “I'm a PhD in psychology. I refuse to entertain some unscientific typology of personality with dubious scientific backing.”
I took pride in expressing my needs. As a Pisces, I really struggle with that.
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Popular song lyrics are becoming less emotional and less focused on relationships, according to new MSU research. Analyzing more than 38,000 songs from 230 artists, researchers found declines in emotional language and references to family and friends, with anxiety-related words increasing over time.
ALT A flat-lay view of a wooden desk scattered with sheet music, a laptop, a smartphone with white earphones, a mechanical pencil, a capo, two crumpled paper balls, and the head of an acoustic guitar resting on the pages.
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Every single person you meet in your daily life is fighting a hidden battle that you know nothing about
Send them a Zoom meeting link for an 8 AM call on Monday morning to finish them off
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🚨 It's finally out! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. Join me for a fun thread! 🧵 @NatureHumBehav nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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I was an extremely guilty child, constantly wracked with shame. I'm happy to report that this trait has not translated to my daughter, who just fumbled a large watermelon, watched it explode on the ground, and declared "oh well, it was heavy."
I surveyed 4 personality handbooks and asked 2600 people how important it is to study each topic (from 1 to 5). All were rated above midpoint (yay!), but mental health/psychopathology, genetics/heritability/neurology, emotion regulation/happiness, and change/identity stood out.
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People only hate Elon Musk because he comes from an emerald mining fortune made in apartheid South Africa, he buys ideas and pretends he’s an inventor, he’s a white supremacist, union-busting, abusive employer, he’s hoarding $1T in stolen wages, he makes us ashamed to be human,
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no it’s okay sir i know this 70mm showtime of The Odyssey is sold out, i just have to deliver this very large horse-shaped package to someone inside
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Conan just doing bits to his employees for 18 years and never having a genuine conversation is sort of the vibe I bring to my work place, unfortunately
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believe it or not, the world's entire population can fit inside this cube in new york city
that means we can move everyone here and use the rest of the planet to build data centers to run agentic workflows
seems like a no brainer to me
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final exams are wonderful because I get to see students I’ve never seen before in my life
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Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work.
In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them.
He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them.
Absolute legend.
Tom Brown, a retired engineer, dedicated 25 years to preserving approximately 1,200 apple varieties from extinction.
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While this story is true, this photo has been ever so slightly edited with AI which might make me people question its authenticity. Here you can see the apple varieties written cleanly, with no AI interference.
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Every morning, I wake up and read the obituaries. If my name isn’t in there, I have breakfast. Then, I complete yet another university-mandated training of some sort. This has been my life for 17 years.