Daniel Kahneman has died

Re:Daniel Kahneman has died by satellite2 on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @02:26PM (#39842818)

I think psychology is very successful at categorizing abd treating mental illnesses. The DSM is really a monument and hold for most of its part very well to scrutiny.

Where psychology is massively failing to replicate is in trying to characterise healthy individuals. Typically the work of Kahneman.

But that's what interest people and sells, pop psychology.

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Re:Daniel Kahneman has died by blackbrokkoli on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @06:06PM (#39845185)

Genuinely curious, how would you scrutinize a categorization tool that includes both causes and effects in its key?

I'm only tangentially following the whole autism/Asperger's/ADD/ADHD development, and I'm growing more and more convinced that all these categories are mostly arbitrary constructs grown out of random history and academia politics. Happy to be proved wrong here, though.

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Re:Daniel Kahneman has died by whelp_24 on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:52AM (#39863463)

I haven't read this to be fair but this seems to question the dsm itself. https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/psychia...

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