Sad, lonely people more likely to be ‘natural’ social psychologists (2018)

Re:Sad, lonely people more likely to be ‘natural’ social psy... by chadcmulligan on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:47AM (#28243662)

I scored 34, but I just used the rule of thumb - people are stupid, particularly in groups.

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Re:Sad, lonely people more likely to be ‘natural’ social psy... by dusted on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:31AM (#28243917)

I also scored 34, and I applied the same logic.. "whenever there's a possibility to do something stupid and selfish, that's what people will do" and it worked..

I'm also sad and lonely, I wonder why... :-D

Before reading the article, I'll speculate that the reason people are sad and lonely is because they understand how terrible humans generally are, but haven't found any way to benefit from this knowledge.

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Re:Sad, lonely people more likely to be ‘natural’ social psy... by chadcmulligan on Friday August 20, 2021 @07:05AM (#28244738)

I do wonder if its a glass is half full / half empty thing, sure there are a lot of dumb/stupid things and covid has revealed a lot more than I thought possible. But, there are also a lot of fantastic things - one of the reasons I look at HN to see the latest science. There are, probably, a lot fewer people who are struggling towards the light, but the effect they generate overwhelms the negative, imho, choose that and the other stuff disappears.

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Re:Sad, lonely people more likely to be ‘natural’ social psy... by antman on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:16AM (#28243836)

Exactly the same score and strategy.

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