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yuliacd.bsky.social
Cultural psychology, emotions. @Georgetown University
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After reading Anabasis with my teacher, thinking about perceptions of cultural contact as polluting/requiring cleansing in certain cultures. Squares with my experience of traveling as a teen and people scrutinizing my "new accent," behavior and opinions for signs of pollution.

If true, cultural differences are on the chopping block?

#AcademicSky I still see many students taking notes by hand Turns out, there's a benefit! See meta-analysis: Laptop users take more notes, but under-perform. Students, resist temptation to write down everything we say! Listen, think, capture the key essence link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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People are wondering why academics do not express unpopular opinions more, with security of their tenure and all. The system that protects them for job security is also the least forgiving of dissent. With low relational mobility. if you earn contempt of your colleagues, you are stuck with it.

A lot of conversations on potential harms of social media for young people. One mechanism that gets overlooked is exposure to seemingly wholesome content on mental health awareness, framed to invite young people to expect and monitor for symptoms of mental illness.

"Stress bragging" is an interesting concept for cultural psychologists, going beyond the workplace (e.g., students, virtuous stress one experiences from engaging with the news). It is clearly perceived as something worthy of sharing, yet backfires. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The most intriguing data from the new Danish study are for schizophrenia, OCD and bipolar. Stress that is uniquely triggering females to develop these disorders (that normally respond little to significant environmental differences) is a far-fetched story. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...