Achievements of psychology

>>9138252
The amount of money you offer somebody doesn't proportionally increase how well they perform a complex task. In fact, the more money you offer past a certain point, the worse they do.

>>9138252
People tends to over-invest once they initially commit to a thing.

People will follow group's authority is said group is cohesive, even if it's obviously plain wrong.

>>9138252
Discovery of the unconscious mind

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This picture may not be well sourced (wikipedia), and the wikipedia sources may not be up to the highest scientific standards, but it still has value beyond what common sense would tell you, most likely coming from the field of psychology.

>>9138252
Labelling the inherently superior as psychopaths in order to royally fuck society.

>>9138286
Now that should be /thread

But watch this become 200 replies of arguing over whether psychology is a real science

>>9138328
Jesus true.
>>9138286
What wiki page is this?

>>9138286
Source

>>9138291
The most superior people are by and large not psychopaths

Psychopaths are a subset of the superior community who are detrimental to society as a whole, a cancer that is great at growing but not good for the body. You're equating "superior" with "great at growing" instead of "great for the body and also great for itself"

>>9138252

It's used pretty effectively in gambling and casinos to make you rob yourself.

>>9138653
I think people overestimate the psychopath thing. Because i think these successful people are obviously intelligent etc apart from their psychopathy. Dont forget arguably alot of psyhopaths are in prison, have bad decision making abilities and wont get anywhere in life.

>>9138278
>unconcious
No thanks.

>>9138653
Psychopaths can just be summed up as people with innate predisposition for turning into social parasites. Everything they do is take advantage of the fact humans are highly social animals.

>>9138252
Psychology is actually one of the sciences that impacts popular belief the most, along with Sociology. Common sense as it is today can be credited the most to psychology.

>the existence of Introversion and Extraversion
>the importance of childhood as we know it
>the importance of social relationships to humans
>there are different types of memories with different capacities for recallability
>the mechanism of classical conditioning
>tons and tons of logical leaps frequently done by people
These are some I can remember off the top of my head.

>>9139301

>muh blank slate

>>9139310
>>>muh genetic determinism