#psychology
25 articles
- Sex Differences in PTSD: The Response Paper Where I Confused Prevalence with Vulnerability
Women have higher PTSD rates and lower trauma exposure. My draft read that as fragility. The meta-analysis says something more careful and more interesting.
- The Robotaxi Case: Competitive Pressure as a Root Cause
A sensor missed a pedestrian — that's the proximate cause. The fifteen-day concealment came from somewhere else, and incident reviews rarely name it.
- Psychological Capital Is State-Like, Which Makes It a Manager's Job
PsyCap — efficacy, optimism, hope and resiliency — sits between a mood and a fixed trait. That placement decides whether you hire for them or build them.
- Letter to Reviewers: Answering Every Critique of My Scale in Writing
Ten critique points across eight sections, answered one by one. Sorting my replies revealed the pattern: my concessions were cheap and my refusals expensive.
- My TKI Conflict Mode Results & the Instrument That Wasn't the TKI
A syllabus linked a free sample test and called it the TKI. Six modes, 36 items, a formula predicting who wins. The real instrument has none of those.
- Inhibited and Uninhibited: Kagan's Temperament Study & the Child I Was
Kagan followed 462 infants for seven years. The finding isn't that temperament predicts who you become — it's that it closes off one corner of the range.
- The Closure Plan: Ending a Group on Purpose
Groups get designed carefully at the start and improvised at the end. A closure plan form turned ending a group into a deliverable with real criteria.
- Upward, Downward, Sideways: The Axis That Decides Whether a Comparison Helps
Upward or downward turns out to be the wrong question. Whether you see the person as reachable decides the outcome — and that is a judgment you make.
- A Letter to Future Me: The Assignment I Sealed & Reopened This Year
The exercise asked for six SMART goals. My letter has the congratulations, and where the goals should be it says 'pppp'. I opened it to find out why.
- Shared Vulnerability: The Model, the Audit & the Studies They Both Point At
Carson cites Andreasen and Jamison as warrant. Schlesinger goes back to those originals. One number sits in both papers, meaning different things.
- The Group Mentoring Agreement: Rules We Wrote Before We Needed Them
A group agreement gets written on day one, while everyone still feels fine. That timing is the whole point, and it's the step most teams skip.
- The Opposing Processes Model Explains Why Competition Helps and Hurts at Once
I wrote that people thrive under competition, then scored full marks on a quiz saying the opposite. Same evening, same student, same model.
- Systems Don't Have Intentions: A Response to the Framework I Kept Resisting
I argued for weeks with a framework that locates harm in structures, not intent. My own class notes contained the diagnostic I refused to run on myself.
- Criterion A: The Trauma Definition I Defended & the Clause Written to Exclude It
I argued trauma should stay objectively defined. The revision I praised for being tighter was written specifically to exclude losses like mine.
- My Favorite Speech: A 90-Second Teardown of a Motivational Speech
A 90-second locker-room speech from a Hindi film showed me that persuasion can work by handing the stakes back to the people who were doubted.
- No Root Cause: What Coincidence Analysis Taught Me About Organizational Interventions
Coincidence Analysis taught me that organizational change may not have one root cause — just different sufficient recipes for the same outcome.
- The Personality Score I Didn't Pay For: A Big Five Snapshot & the Textbook Page That Found Me
A Big Five test and a textbook page gave me an accurate, uncomfortable read. Here is what I did with the pattern instead of hiding it.
- Brave Spaces vs. Safe Spaces: What Group Coaching Taught Me About Holding a Room
Two group-coaching reflections became an audit of overthinking, silence, and the word that caught me off guard.
- What My Career Anchors Said About the Work I Actually Want
My top two career anchors tied for first place. In Schein's model, they aren't supposed to be roommates.
- What My Cultural Intelligence Assessment Said — and Whether It Was Right
A self-scored culture test labeled me a 'Chameleon.' The honest part was where my own scores disagreed with each other.
- Exploring Psychopathology: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
A film assignment taught me that addiction is rarely a single event — it's the cumulative result of pressure, pain, and lost connection.
- Looking Inward: What a BuzzFeed Quiz Taught Me About Myself
My professor assigned us a BuzzFeed quiz. I took it twice. I got 'underprivileged' twice. Here is what I found when I stopped pretending otherwise.
- My Power Audit: What I Found When I Examined My Own Influence at Work
A one-page assignment asked me to audit my workplace power. What I found was mostly a map of my own anxiety.
- Gender & Competitiveness: Not More. Not Less. Just Different.
Men and women compete differently — not more or less. These are my generalized views drawn from weekly readings and research in my course work.
- Persuasive Speech: Outline & Self-Evaluation
A persuasive speech assignment taught me to build an outline that does the heavy lifting — and that mid-speech corrections are just negotiating for clarity.