#humanbehavior

PsyPost: Are AI lovers replacing real romantic partners? Surprising findings from new research. “A new study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior offers insight into how romantic relationships with virtual agents—artificially intelligent characters designed to simulate human interaction—might influence people’s intentions to marry in real life. The research found that these […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/08/psypost-are-ai-lovers-replacing-real-romantic-partners-surprising-findings-from-new-research/

My friend told me this story:
"In my first-year Psychology class, the lecture was on Pavlov and his dogs. By the end of the lecture, I thought, 'What stupid dogs!'

Then the bell rang, and we all went to lunch."

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Pavlov #PavlovsDogs #Psychology #SchrodingersCat #HumanBehavior

Warship concept, Noriyoshi Ohrai

This artist is one of my favorite SciFi artists, and I don't think the absurdity of this vessel could have been lost on him. I read this as satirical cultural commentary.

Do we have enough guns?!? We need a lot of guns! Maybe you could make it a little bigger so that there will be more room for guns? Are those guns big enough?! We need a lot of BIG GUNS. I want guns on the guns!!

etc.

@art #art #SciFiArt #peace #peaceNow #absurdity #humanBehavior

https://www.europesays.com/uk/39818/ Packed Festival Crowds Actually Form Living Vortices — And You Can Predict Them with Physics #crowds #HumanBehavior #movement #Physics #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom

Linguistic Markers and Mental Health: Understanding Inner States Through Language

#MentalWellness #HumanBehavior #NLP #Psychology #SelfGrowth #Neuroscience #CommunicationSkills #TherapyTips #MentalHealthMatters #SelfDiscovery #PsychologicalTools #SocialDynamics #MindAndBody #PersonalDevelopment

https://youtube.com/shorts/1JG6Jefi12Y?feature=share

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: Philosophy: cultural differences in exploitation of artificial agents. “People in the United States and Europe take advantage of robots significantly more often than people in Japan. The researchers suggest this difference stems from guilt: In the West, people feel remorse when they exploit another human but not when they exploit a machine. In Japan, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/27/philosophy-cultural-differences-in-exploitation-of-artificial-agents-ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/

What the DISC Personality Test Reveals About AI Models Like ChatGPT https://www.byteseu.com/854424/ #AI #AiModel #ArtificialIntelligence #assessment #chatbot #ChatGPT #company #Conflict #disc #employee #gemini #HumanBehavior #lattice #marston #OpenAI #platform #type

Portage church giving away kits to make Christmas dinner https://www.diningandcooking.com/1954685/portage-church-giving-away-kits-to-make-christmas-dinner/ #christmas #ChristmasAppetizes #ChristmasDesserts #ChristmasDinner #ChristmasDinnerRecipes #ChristmasFood #ChristmasRecipes #ChristmasSides #culture #dinner #HumanBehavior #time

PsyPost: Hostile tweets linked to upbringing and legal troubles, study finds. “By linking official government records to the online activity of Danish Twitter users, the researchers found that individuals with numerous criminal verdicts, more time spent in foster care, better performance in primary school, and higher childhood socioeconomic status tended to be more hostile in their social […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/14/psypost-hostile-tweets-linked-to-upbringing-and-legal-troubles-study-finds/

Unlocking the Mind: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychology

#Psychology #MentalHealth #EvidenceBased #Mindfulness #CognitivePsychology #Psychotherapy #Wellbeing #Neuroscience #LearningTheory #MindfulnessInterventions #HumanBehavior #MentalHealthAwareness #PsychologyFacts #GrowthMindset #Exploration

https://youtube.com/shorts/_wPLDzUegBo?feature=share

University of Kansas: Study finds people prefer AI chatbots when discussing embarrassing health info — but humans when they are angry. “Many people have experienced frustration when dealing with artificial intelligence chatbots for customer support or technical assistance. New research from the University of Kansas has found when dealing with embarrassing issues, people prefer the anonymity […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/25/university-of-kansas-study-finds-people-prefer-ai-chatbots-when-discussing-embarrassing-health-info-but-humans-when-they-are-angry/

The Conversation: AI datasets have human values blind spots − new research. “My colleagues and I at Purdue University have uncovered a significant imbalance in the human values embedded in AI systems. The systems were predominantly oriented toward information and utility values and less toward prosocial, well-being and civic values.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/11/the-conversation-ai-datasets-have-human-values-blind-spots-%e2%88%92-new-research/

#psychology #humanbehavior

I'm in a breakfast shop having coffee. The TV shows Faux Neues. But the people who work here look and sound Arabic. I can't place the language. I think they could be immigrants, like me.

Why would such an establishment play that particular TV channel? One that continues to illicit hostility against immigrants?

Maybe it's for the same reason they fly a flag: to blend in better and avoid hostilities.

University of Basel: Conversing with chatbots: what influences trust?. “Whether on your bank’s website or your telephone provider’s help line, interactions between humans and chatbots have become part of our daily lives. But do we trust them? And what factors influence our trust? Researchers at the University of Basel recently examined these questions.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/26/conversing-with-chatbots-what-influences-trust-university-of-basel/

UC Irvine: UC Irvine study finds mismatch between human perception and reliability of AI-assisted language tools. “A new study by cognitive and computer scientists at the University of California, Irvine finds people generally overestimate the accuracy of large language model (LLM) outputs. But with some tweaks, says lead author Mark Steyvers, cognitive sciences professor and department […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/26/uc-irvine-uc-irvine-study-finds-mismatch-between-human-perception-and-reliability-of-ai-assisted-language-tools/

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
-- B. F. Skinner

#Wisdom #Quotes #BFSkinner #Crime #HumanBehavior #Punishment

#Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

PsyPost: News finds me: Study identifies a widespread phenomenon linked to fake news susceptibility. “A recent study conducted by researchers from Fudan University and Syracuse University, published in Computers in Human Behavior, sheds light on a troubling trend in today’s digital media landscape. The study explores how the ‘News-Finds-Me’ perception—a belief that important news will […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/25/news-finds-me-study-identifies-a-widespread-phenomenon-linked-to-fake-news-susceptibility-psypost/

"𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍, 𝑰’𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔, 𝒃𝒖𝒕…"
Have you ever heard someone utter this phrase? There is a chance that they could be on the verge of revealing something sensitive—possibly without realizing the implications. And they could be brought to this point, intentionally.

Used in social engineering, intelligence gathering, and even corporate environments, elicitation is the art of extracting valuable or sensitive information during a seemingly regular conversation.

The techniques are usually subtle, non-threatening, easy to disguise, deniable, and effective.

My new article dives into:
What elicitation is and why it works.
The psychological tendencies that make us vulnerable.
3 highly effective elicitation techniques (plus a bonus one).

Understanding these techniques isn’t just about learning how they work; it’s also about recognizing when they’re being used against you. Whether you’re in security, law enforcement, negotiations, or simply someone who wants to protect sensitive information, this is a skill worth knowing about.

And before you go, think: have you ever witnessed (or been part of) a situation where someone unknowingly shared too much? How did it play out?

#Elicitation #SocialEngineering #HumanBehavior #InformationSecurity #Awareness #CyberSecurity

https://christina-lekati.medium.com/elicitation-techniques-74be36e212f8

You are in a movie theatre.
The last scene has ended.
What do you do?

#poll #movies #humanbehavior

The view of a compassionless psychopath is outdated. In fact, psychologists have recently discovered a group of people with so-called “dark personality traits,” such as psychopathy and narcissism, but also above average levels of empathy, dubbed dark empaths. @sciencefocus tells us more, including how to spot them.

https://flip.it/LWsdCX

#Science #Psychology #Human #HumanBehavior #Empathy #DarkEmpath