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I have asked the below question: Understanding the Relationship between Human Immune System Dysfunction and Social Cognitive Immune System Dysfunction And it has been closed by pligarism when the main post information has been written by myself, by the help of AI like this. The orhte part of thi...

I have a question about my Psychology & Neuroscience Stack Exchange post: Is mentalism real? So above post is closed. I asked why my post was closed here Close the question with reason, Also I requested a feature in this post but that's not an issue anymore. The issue is why is my post Is ment...

Back on July 18, I have asked the question: https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/29741/how-can-a-researcher-take-into-consideration-the-ethical-concerns-related-to-twi. The question has started with two upvotes, but after setting the bounty to the question, one of the mods has said to b...

The site itself says it is a place for teachers, students, and enthusiasts in psychology. But can a mentally ill person also ask questions here? Maybe someone is suffering from OCD and/or Schizofrenia, who is shy to go visit a doctor and wants to get advices for free online.

The Stack Exchange Data Explorer lets you write SQL queries to find questions, answers, comments, users etc across the StackExchange network, but the query interface throws an error if I try to select Psychology & Neuroscience. The problem seems to be the ampersand in the site's name; all the oth...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web: We designed the Stack Exch...

Answers based on anecdotes or personal opinion can already be flagged for removal. However, in previous discussions (eg, here, here, here, here), scenarios were posited in which answers without references/sources/citations/links can still be considered valid - eg: The poster is too lazy or time ...

What sparked this is a Psychology & Neuroscience answer which is purely a cut and paste answer from Psychology Today, I flagged to the moderators for further action. The person who posted this seems to have been inactive in SE over the last 3 years. Maybe this needs to be deleted? The thing is, I...

See Ban ChatGPT network-wide for reference. Briefly, ChatGPT is a language model that uses the statistics of words in a training dataset to generate grammatically correct responses to plain language prompts. That means you could take a Stack Exchange question, put it into ChatGPT, and with no eff...

I think Stack Exchange has worked a lot in recent years in improving the overall positivity of the site, and it’s been effective. I’ve noticed they try to be a little more subtle about showing you your downvotes so it doesn’t hit so hard - I think downvotes subtract a smaller amount of reputation...

@ArnonWeinberg commented in Is there any evidence of a biologically predetermined, gendered psyche? that it is a possible duplicate of another question rather than close-vote it. Possible duplicate of: Is gender biologically or socially determined? I understand why Arnon did this, because being...

I recently commented on a neuroscience question requesting: for the benefit of others who may not know, can you please define any acronyms uncommon outside of the field of study such as CNS? I am not necessarily looking for strictness on requirements. Here are a couple of examples of what I'm t...

I have some questions about dissociation and I am unable to create tags because of my low reputation. Shouldn't we have a dissociation tag?

OK, I'll be right up front. In right wing media it's no secret they don't buy in to the transgender theories, as they are popularly understood and discussed in other media. As such, right wing media regularly comment on it. The most recent iteration of this is the documentary "What is a woman?" m...

I have read the tour and understand from it that I will not be able to ask the question I joined the site for... I want to describe behaviour that an individual is exhibiting in the hopes of determining if they do have psychological problems that need to be addressed. The individual admits that t...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web: We designed the Stack Exch...

TLDR: Many questions are not reviewed by enough users to accumulate sufficient votes to close, and as a result, what few close votes are cast, end up aging away and are effectively wasted. I expect that it can be frustrating for users who take the time to cast close votes to find that questions d...

I'd like to ask some questions about the behavior of one of my acquaintances (first I'd like to describe how he treats his friends/relatives under certain circumstances, how he reacts to specific events or topics; then I'd like to get some insights where his behavior might have come from/how one ...

I am confused, because, looking at the timeline for the question are statistic results of these two questions equal?, it was reopened by @AliceD, yet it was closed by @ArnonWeinberg even though votes to close were invalidated in 2016, a month after AliceD's comment voting to close the question as...

Assume a question, as asked and phrased, is in the intersection of the topics for this SE and another. Both would consider it on-topic. It's first asked in another SE, but then later the OP realizes that the expertise in this SE is more useful. What is the correct way to "move" the question to th...

I recently ended a series of sessions with a psychologist, and I did notice some issues that I found troublesome and that I could not address with her. After some rest, I am considering the convenience of starting with another professional, but I would like to know if I can expect these things to...

This question comes on the back of answers https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/28001/7604 and https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/28000/7604 where the answer only has links to Wikipedia articles. To me, these answers are weak anyway, but I wondered about general consensus considering I comm...

When searching for questions with open questions with no answers using answers:0 closed:no I got the following in the search results. When going into the question there was an upvote. Going back and refreshing did not change the number of votes registered. Not that this should matter necessarily...

I have reputation of less than 5 so I can't post on meta ( this question was intended for meta). So, I am posting it here: I need to self study my psycology better so as to help myself because I live in a very poor country with health system in shambles. I tried services of 4 doctors and 4 th...

Items such as How does psychiatry judge suicide by military and political leaders? - Psychology & Neuroscience Meta Stack Exchange continually get "bumped by community" in hopes of a better answer. But when the question is "I've updated my question. Can it be reopened now?", the question has bee...

Take this answer as an example. It doesn't cite any source, so it should have a post notice about that. But I have a source that may fit it. What should I do? Add it into the answer? But that's my choice of source, not the answerer. I think the edit shouldn't make an impression that the source i...

Please can someone with the right privileges, edit the eft tag to Emotion-Focused-Therapy in order to prevent ambiguity with Emotional Freedom Technique developed by Gary Craig? The tag was created today by the OP of Where to find STORIES about successes with Attachment Disorders and I have creat...

As many will know, every now and again, I go on the hunt through the Garbage Valley and look to see if there are any question gems out there which may need a little nudging. If I can answer them I do. Along with the usual issues with the old unanswered questions (which can demotivate you after a...

Moderator election #1 on Psychology & Neuroscience has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are: They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes! Also, pl...

I have asked the below question, which is closed: About Freud psychology system tracking in Middle East socials [closed] So I have tried to answer the opinion base and closing comments as you can see below: The "level 4 defense mechanisms" are not Freudian. They come from theories developed by G...

The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are. Please visit the official election page at ht...

Psychology & Neuroscience Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2021-09-20. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participati...

The face is the main, non-verbal emotional interface between humans (at least, that is my not-so-bold claim as a non-expert). How emotions are translated into expressions and why certain expressions look the same / are the same when they are responding to different, seemingly unrelated stimuli ar...

Summary: Psychology & Neuroscience Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on September 20, as your "graduation" election (as a result of having lost your beta label a while back). The timeline: On September 13, I'll post a question collection post on Meta, so that the com...

In this answer the answerer provides some theory names and a short citation ("See Barrett-Feldman et al."). One commenter links to What to do with answers that fall short of our standards of evidence? and requires that the citation should be in full. They say: what is Barrett-Feldman et al.? Ful...

In Getting started with FAQ customisations @JeromyAnglim mentioned the idea of discussing prior research requirements and apart from discussing What to do with homework questions? I believe no real discussion has been made regarding the matter. I feel having a prior research requirement will help...

I ran across Is there a such thing as collective narcissism? by accident just now and my first thought was hmm... yes sure, something at least analogous to it, and something like this surely has been written about somewhere. but I can see that it might be a challenge to refactor this to be on-t...

I have a question about my Psychology & Neuroscience Stack Exchange post: Is it possible to have bipolar and aphantasia? I just tried to post this question and got cancelled for being considered "about the behaviour of an individual person". I don't quite get it. I simply put the question into...

With respect to inclusiveness and the site's be nice policy, should we require it that identity-first language is to be used in questions and answers? This question has been sparked by Can an autistic person have very advance language skills? where certain individuals were referred to as "autistics"

Questions seeking a scientific explanation for the asker's anecdotal experience has been asked before, with a very good reception by the community. For instance: By learning to read and write upside down, what did I do to myself? Does psychology have a name for emotions that a person can feel bu...

Can one ask questions about personal mental health or illness. Is it allowed in the website.

I have a question about my Psychology & Neuroscience Stack Exchange post: Is this a possible psychological/scientific reason for women on average not finding chests sexually attractive?

I have a question about my Psychology & Neuroscience Stack Exchange post: Why is it that women's love for men's chest is not talked about and noticed a lot, comparatively? I really don't understand how it is opinion based. In case of men, there's no doubt that most men find women's breasts sex...

My question is Can I post about the psychology of old patients of neuroscience or psychiatry. Is this normal that they don't want to hear about problems of cognitive sciences? I am an enthusiast. Earlier I was a user of this site. This is not to suggest about my own problem or about doctors.

Can dream interpretations question be asked in this community? Along with dream meanings and how they could relate to your life? Sorry is this is off topic.

The question How likely abusers with low motivation to change actually be aware of the hurt they made after having legal issue? has now been edited to Why is the effectiveness of treatments for abusers and offenders low? Is the new one broad anymore?

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web: We designed the Stack Exchange netw...

Question in question: How do addiction and fear affect patient's decisional-making capacity? The history of it is this: First I asked it on Medical Sciences SE because I think it's better suited in there (it's more about ethics, practice and even law, not just psychology) The mod in there though...

Dorsum sellae, tuberculum sellae and sella turcica which of the 3 is referred to by the adjective sellar? was closed as off-topic as it had nothing to do with Neuroscience or Psychology. @BryanKrause points out in the comments that a neuroanatomy question should surely be on topic here. So what...

I have the impression that approximately 30-50% of new user questions on this forum are self-help, and readily closed. Our documentation only mentions self-help questions being off-topic if you read it carefully. For example, the Tour page has it somewhere in the middle of a long page: Don't as...