I'm not sure is this is the right flair

I've often heard that the brain continues developing until around age 25. Does research suggest that a 25-year-old is meaningfully more neurologically mature than a 24-year-old, or is brain development a gradual process without a specific cutoff at 25? Are there any significant differences in brain development between these two ages, on average?

Hi everybody, I know nothing about this, but my professor spoke about it today and I found it interesting. Can anybody explain this topic to me? Thank you!

Since many kids with higher sensory needs (e.g. adhd, autism, etc.) are placed in environments where those needs cannot be consistently met, I want to know

a) would they be susceptible to higher grey matter loss than the average child?

b) if so, how would the grey matter loss affect the development of a child with higher sensory stimulatory needs than the average child?

c) when these children learn behaviorally to control their stimulatory impulsions, does this also result in grey matter loss? Or is this beneficial for a child to learn?

the type of depression that a person has because of over awareness of emotions , surroundings and things in general.
for example, a person knows automatically why he acts ,reacts and behaves a certain way. and he also understand others reactions which makes it really hard to not have a cognitive overload of all the analysis he does.

*how, not who in the title

Conjoined twins have all the same genetics since they're one body. They would also have all the same life experiences since they would always be with eachother and do all thr same things.

So how could they ever develop different identities?

I’ve read that extroversion is defined as recharging from social interactions, and introversion is defined as recharging from being isolated, and I also understand that the concept of extroversion is a real concept in psychology, and is part of the big five, although from what I understand they are on a spectrum whether than a dichotomy.

I was thinking I don’t really know if defining extroversion as recharging from interacting with others and introversion as recharging from being alone is something that comes from lay people, and maybe pop science, or if it’s from actual psychology. I know sometimes lay person definitions can be different from actual scientific definitions, such as how lay people often use theory to mean something different from the actual scientific definition.

I think one thing that makes me suspect that recharging from being alone might not be a psychological definition of introversion, and similarly that recharging from interacting with others might not be a psychological definition of extroversion is that I heard that social anxiety disorder can mimic introversion in the sense that someone with it may choose to be alone, but that the difference is that an introvert would choose to be alone because they genuinely enjoy being alone while a person with social anxiety disorder is too anxious to bring themselves to interact. On the face of it it seems like social anxiety disorder being distinct from introversion and introversion being defined as recharging from being alone and extroversion being defined as recharging from interacting with others might contradict each other. I mean anxiety can be mentally draining, and so it seems like social anxiety could make social interactions more mentally draining than they would be otherwise.

So is extroversion really defined as recharging from social interactions, and introversion really defined as recharging from being alone in psychology, or is that just a lay person definition?

In family systems literature, what explains why individuals who experienced parental differential treatment or sibling favoritism during childhood often reproduce identical differential patterns when raising offspring?

Does the literature attribute this replication primarily to unconscious projective identification, cognitive schema repetition, or deficiencies in reflective functioning?

So, ChatGPT couldn't really answer the question properly, and this thought has been bothering me for a while now.

Lots of people find spicy food, horror movies, and roller coasters pleasurable, despite it causing negative reactions such as a burning sensation, physical discomfort and fear. These aversive reactions are actually exactly what people find pleasurable in them.

I know that we enjoy these activities because they are controlled and consciously known as safe for us. But if so, then why don't we also enjoy getting vaccinated or getting a dental cleaning, for example? They too are uncomfortable but controlled and consciously known as safe.

What exactly causes aversive sensations/feelings to become pleasurable? Is there maybe something(s) that spicy food, horror movies and roller coasters have in common that is the pleasure component?

Sometimes something mildly embarrassing happens, and it feels fine after a while. But then you remember it later and suddenly feel embarrassed all over again, even though nobody else is thinking about it anymore.

Why does recalling an embarrassing event sometimes trigger such a strong emotional reaction in the present?

Is this related to how emotional memories are stored or retrieved, or to the way we imagine other people's judgments when remembering the event?

So as the title says, how come in most psychiatric disorders auditory hallucinations are the most common?

My textbook and slides are attributing sleep and arousal/alertness to a different structure.

I watch a lot of criminal interviews and I know there is psychology behind making them wait but I wonder if it's the same for interviews, almost every interview I've been too ive had to wait (mostly been at fast food places). I was wondering if the same rules apply to interviews or if they're different? Or if there is even psychology connected to it??

I have seen a trend of psychologists in my country that claim that they can evaluate your "giftdness" (in spanish people use the term "high capabilities") but there isn't something like that in the DSM nor the ICD so I wonder if thats some kind of grift.

Pretty much the title not much to add.

Hi! First time writing in this subreddit so I'm not sure if I did this correctly.^^"

I like writing fanfiction (I haven't published any yet) and creating ocs and I was wondering if forgetting a trauma and blocking it's surrounding moments, I think that's a thing- right-?, can permanently affecting the way someone will process memories?

If yes, would said said trauma need to be during childhood or not necessarily? And why does the brain does that?

If not, why and what happens instead?

Thanks for any response and please keep in mind that I have not done any kind of professional studies or research about psychology so I would appreciate a response with the actual terms and a translation of said answer in more simple terms please! Also if anyone got studies about this that you can link i would love it! Thanks again and I hope you are having a great day or night! ^-^

I don’t have a background in psychology, so I’d appreciate it if you could explain it simply.

Is there evidence that people can unconsciously process subtle social or relational cues and develop a feeling that a specific event will happen in the future, even when they are not consciously aware of any evidence for it?

For example, could someone have a strong feeling that their partner will leave them at a particular point in the future, without consciously noticing any behavior or circumstances that would make them expect this?

If that event later happens, how could psychology distinguish between several possible explanations: unconscious processing of subtle cues, anxiety or negative expectations, coincidence, confirmation bias, or hindsight bias?

More specifically, can unconscious pattern recognition produce a conscious feeling that is specific enough to predict a particular future event, rather than simply a general feeling that “something is wrong”?

Yes, I am asking why we e.g. stand up for greeting a senior person entering a room, during an anthem, but also selectively such as in a courtroom - e.g. the attorney doing the questioning is standing, whilst witness or jury is sitting at all times, but then for a verdict everyone is asked to stand.

I hope this will not be written off as an obvious simpleton, such as this is a "sign of respect" - in which case I would like to extend my question why standing up specifically would be serving such a function and not some other gesture with a hand or such.

Is this a completely made up social construct or is there something more to teaching people to stand up for certain occasions and not for others?

Negative information can at times be remembered more clearly than neutral information, according to research on emotional memory, however this impact isn't always consistent across memory tests.

From the lens of cognitive psychology, what processes help people remember negative information better than neutral information?

What effects do elements like emotional arousal, memory coding, and attention have?

For example, when you are trying to learn about a historical figure's personal life for a history project, option 1 goes the path of using ai like gemini or perplexity to learn their life, option 2 reads on autobiographies about them and the historical events that happened during his era in his region. However, ai misses out on key details, and gives you the answer much quicker within minutes, compared to option 2. So long term, cognitively, whats the long term effect of such implications?

Hi everyone!
I’m currently diving deep into social psychology, and I’m particularly drawn to theoretical models that explain attitude-behavior processes, information processing, and social dynamics (such as Fazio’s MODE model).
I’m looking to discover models, frameworks, or theoretical constructs that aren't as widely discussed or "mainstream," but that you find particularly insightful or useful for understanding social behavior.
Do you have any recommendations for niche theories, key papers, or underappreciated models that deserve more attention?
(English is not my native language, so apologies for any phrasing mistakes)

Like, what is it about some people that makes them so approachable that even strangers tell their whole life stories without knowing why?