#socialdynamics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #socialdynamics, aggregated by home.social.
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When cute turns yuck: Inside the sudden ‘ick’ reaction https://english.mathrubhumi.com/lifestyle/psychology-of-the-ick-social-discomfort-lh4cdm91?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TheIck #Psychology #HumanBehaviour #ModernLife #SocialDynamics
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I can’t show people how I do it — I just have to be the guy who does it.
#SelfMastery #HumanNature #SocialDynamics #StaySilent #InnerPower -
I can’t show people how I do it — I just have to be the guy who does it.
#SelfMastery #HumanNature #SocialDynamics #StaySilent #InnerPower -
I can’t show people how I do it — I just have to be the guy who does it.
#SelfMastery #HumanNature #SocialDynamics #StaySilent #InnerPower -
I can’t show people how I do it — I just have to be the guy who does it.
#SelfMastery #HumanNature #SocialDynamics #StaySilent #InnerPower -
I can’t show people how I do it — I just have to be the guy who does it.
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“Unhappy is the land that needs a hero”*…
To the extent that evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist Robert Trivers has been in the news over the last decade, it has been for his entanglement with and highly-questionable defense of Jeffrey Epstein. But as Lionel Page reminds us, two decades before that– well before he could have known the execrable “financier”– Trivers made hugely important contributions to his field…
Steve Stewart-Williams announced… that Robert Trivers passed away.
Trivers was one of the most—perhaps the most—influential evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. His work should be much more widely known in social and behavioural sciences, in particular in economics, as Trivers’ intellectual approach is very much in line with a game theoretic understanding of social interactions.
It is hard to overstate the importance of his work. Einstein famously published four groundbreaking papers in 1905, a year often referred to as his “Annus mirabilis”, during which he revolutionised physics. Trivers might be said to have had a “Quinquennium Mirabile” for the five years between 1971 and 1976, during which he produced a series of ideas that revolutionised evolutionary biology…
[Page unpacks four of those contributions: Reciprocal Alturism, Parental Investment, Parental Offspring Conflict, and Self-Deception, each fascinating…]
… Trivers has been one of the most influential evolutionary biologists, and his papers are still worth reading today. His insights, published more than 50 years ago, are fascinating. They often align very well with economic theories of behaviour, and it is therefore regrettable that his ideas are not more well-known in economics, and in particular in behavioural economics.
A key feature of Trivers’ take across these contributions was to see that beneath the world of social interactions we observe, there are deep structures in terms of incentives that shape the game we play. Understanding these games and their structures helps us make sense of the seemingly endless complexity of human psychology and social dynamics. In several key contributions, Trivers helped lift the veil on the underlying logic of human behaviour…
From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions: “The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers” from @lionelpage.bsky.social.
For more on Trivers and the controversies in his life (Epstein, but also the Black Panthers and a Rutgers set-to), all of which followed the burst of productivity described above, see here.
And for some thoughts on how one might reconcile appreciation for a scientist’s work with abhorence of his later sins, see “Ghosts of Science Past Still Haunt Us. We Can Put Them to Rest.“
* Bertolt Brecht (through the mouth of Galileo, in The Life of Galileo)
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As we linger over legacies, we might send material birthday greetings to a man who helped lay the groundwork for the field to which Trivers contributed, Ludwig Büchner; he was born on this date in 1824. A philosopher, physiologist, and physician, he became one of the leading exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism. Büchner was an early champion of Darwin’s theory of evolution, endorsing it within a decade of its first issuance, then did much to spread it by citing and building on it in his own books.
As far as we know, Büchner’s life was free of the scandal and conflict that plagued Trivers. He taught at the University of Tübingen and published dozens of books and papers. Later in his life he founded he “German Freethinkers League” (“Deutsche Freidenkerbund”) and served as a member of the second chamber of the Landstände of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as a representative of the German Free-minded Party from 1884 to 1890. He was the younger brother of Georg Büchner, a famous revolutionary playwright, and Luise Büchner, a women’s rights advocate; and he was the uncle of Ernst Büchner, inventor of the Büchner flask.
#culture #Darwin #evolution #evolutionaryBiology #history #humanBehavior #LudwigBüchner #LudwigBuchner #Materialism #ParentalInvestment #ParentalOffspringConflict #Psychology #ReciprocalAlturism #RobertTrivers #Science #scientificMaterialism #SelfDeception #socialDynamics #sociobiology #theoryOfEvolution -
Some rituals test whether you belong.
Sometimes it’s a joke.
Sometimes it’s a label.The Cost of Folded Paper.
https://realityfragments.com/2026/03/02/the-cost-of-folded-paper/
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You can either play or flatten me. I choose to play every time — and I’ll save this energy for those who need it in their day.
#SocialDynamics #HumanConnection #GoodVibesOnly #AuthenticLiving #SpreadJoy
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Have you ever noticed how deeply our society has mangled the idea of autonomy until it barely resembles anything human. We are trained to imagine ourselves as tiny sovereign islands whose choices exist in perfect isolation, even though every choice we make bleeds outward into the lives, bodies, and emotional landscapes of the people around us. This distortion becomes most obvious when you look at how people react to being asked to include others in decisions that materially affect them. They treat that inclusion like a robbery of their freedom while pretending that the fallout they create is somehow weightless. It is a strange fucking equation where accountability feels like trespass but consequence does not. That reversal is not natural. It is manufactured. Once you see that pattern clearly, you see the fingerprints of imperial logic all over it. Empire teaches people to believe that their impacts are simply facts of life while the impacts they endure from others are violations. It builds a worldview where asserting your comfort is normal and absorbing the discomfort you cause is the responsibility of everyone else. Even in intimate settings like friendships and sexual relationships, people reproduce this same structure. They cling to a tiny imagined sphere of personal autonomy that somehow must override any harm, risk, or emotional turbulence that their habits create for the people tied to them. They do not call it domination, because domination becomes invisible when it is practiced in miniature. But the architecture is the same as the state. Autonomy in this society is an anemic little idea. It is important, but its actual scope is minuscule. Without collective reinforcement, it barely extends beyond the limits of your limbs. People act like it is this vast realm of unbounded license, but in reality, it is a fragile conceptual tool that only gains strength when held collectively. Autonomy means next to nothing alone but can reshape the world when connected, autonomy becomes powerful only through reciprocal recognition. When people defend autonomy as if it thrives in isolation, what they are actually defending is the right to ignore the relational web that makes meaningful freedom possible at all. They mistake solitude for sovereignty. This is why the refusal to let affected people participate in decisions about your habits is not neutrality. It is a small scale reenactment of the governing posture. It is the transformation of personal life into an arena where one person’s preferences become law and everyone else becomes subject to its effects without representation. People get defensive because they think the alternative is giving up their body or their agency to someone else. But the real alternative is mutual accountability, not subordination. It is the acknowledgment that freedom and consequence are siblings, and you cannot amputate one without mutilating the other. The irony is that this hyper individualist version of autonomy destroys the very thing it claims to protect. When you treat others as intruders the moment they engage with the consequences you create, you turn autonomy into a weaponized excuse to avoid responsibility. You reproduce the emotional logic of the state: my expansion is natural, your resistance is aggression. You dull yourself to the effects you produce while reacting violently to the idea that anyone else’s needs might intersect with your own. That is how empire sneaks into intimate life. It teaches people to feel righteous about impact and persecuted by accountability. Calling autonomy a shared delusion is not cynicism. It is clarity. Human autonomy has always been conditional, always intertwined with the collective arrangements that allow us to survive and express ourselves. Pretending otherwise only makes cooperation impossible and leaves people trapped inside tiny fictions of personal sovereignty that cannot withstand pressure from reality. When we admit that autonomy is constructed, relational, and fundamentally limited, we become able to actually use it. We can explore the psychological forces behind defensiveness. We can talk honestly about how to reshape habits that spill over onto the people we care about. We can stop mimicking the structures that dominate us. If we want liberation, we cannot replicate the same imperial logic that treats consequence as invisible and accountability as violation. We have to rebuild autonomy as a cooperative process, not a barricade. Because any model of freedom that depends on apathy toward those affected by it is not freedom. It is empire wearing the mask of the self.
#Anarchism #AntiAuthoritarian #PowerDynamics #TraumaInformed #Psychology #SocialDynamics #InterpersonalRelationships #AbolitionistPerspective #LeftistDiscussion #CollectiveCare #CommunityCare #Decolonize #CriticalTheory #SurveillanceCulture #HierarchyKills #Autonomy #LiberatoryPractice
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Have you ever noticed how deeply our society has mangled the idea of autonomy until it barely resembles anything human. We are trained to imagine ourselves as tiny sovereign islands whose choices exist in perfect isolation, even though every choice we make bleeds outward into the lives, bodies, and emotional landscapes of the people around us. This distortion becomes most obvious when you look at how people react to being asked to include others in decisions that materially affect them. They treat that inclusion like a robbery of their freedom while pretending that the fallout they create is somehow weightless. It is a strange fucking equation where accountability feels like trespass but consequence does not. That reversal is not natural. It is manufactured. Once you see that pattern clearly, you see the fingerprints of imperial logic all over it. Empire teaches people to believe that their impacts are simply facts of life while the impacts they endure from others are violations. It builds a worldview where asserting your comfort is normal and absorbing the discomfort you cause is the responsibility of everyone else. Even in intimate settings like friendships and sexual relationships, people reproduce this same structure. They cling to a tiny imagined sphere of personal autonomy that somehow must override any harm, risk, or emotional turbulence that their habits create for the people tied to them. They do not call it domination, because domination becomes invisible when it is practiced in miniature. But the architecture is the same as the state. Autonomy in this society is an anemic little idea. It is important, but its actual scope is minuscule. Without collective reinforcement, it barely extends beyond the limits of your limbs. People act like it is this vast realm of unbounded license, but in reality, it is a fragile conceptual tool that only gains strength when held collectively. Autonomy means next to nothing alone but can reshape the world when connected, autonomy becomes powerful only through reciprocal recognition. When people defend autonomy as if it thrives in isolation, what they are actually defending is the right to ignore the relational web that makes meaningful freedom possible at all. They mistake solitude for sovereignty. This is why the refusal to let affected people participate in decisions about your habits is not neutrality. It is a small scale reenactment of the governing posture. It is the transformation of personal life into an arena where one person’s preferences become law and everyone else becomes subject to its effects without representation. People get defensive because they think the alternative is giving up their body or their agency to someone else. But the real alternative is mutual accountability, not subordination. It is the acknowledgment that freedom and consequence are siblings, and you cannot amputate one without mutilating the other. The irony is that this hyper individualist version of autonomy destroys the very thing it claims to protect. When you treat others as intruders the moment they engage with the consequences you create, you turn autonomy into a weaponized excuse to avoid responsibility. You reproduce the emotional logic of the state: my expansion is natural, your resistance is aggression. You dull yourself to the effects you produce while reacting violently to the idea that anyone else’s needs might intersect with your own. That is how empire sneaks into intimate life. It teaches people to feel righteous about impact and persecuted by accountability. Calling autonomy a shared delusion is not cynicism. It is clarity. Human autonomy has always been conditional, always intertwined with the collective arrangements that allow us to survive and express ourselves. Pretending otherwise only makes cooperation impossible and leaves people trapped inside tiny fictions of personal sovereignty that cannot withstand pressure from reality. When we admit that autonomy is constructed, relational, and fundamentally limited, we become able to actually use it. We can explore the psychological forces behind defensiveness. We can talk honestly about how to reshape habits that spill over onto the people we care about. We can stop mimicking the structures that dominate us. If we want liberation, we cannot replicate the same imperial logic that treats consequence as invisible and accountability as violation. We have to rebuild autonomy as a cooperative process, not a barricade. Because any model of freedom that depends on apathy toward those affected by it is not freedom. It is empire wearing the mask of the self.
#Anarchism #AntiAuthoritarian #PowerDynamics #TraumaInformed #Psychology #SocialDynamics #InterpersonalRelationships #AbolitionistPerspective #LeftistDiscussion #CollectiveCare #CommunityCare #Decolonize #CriticalTheory #SurveillanceCulture #HierarchyKills #Autonomy #LiberatoryPractice
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[Psychology log] So, I've detected two narcissists on TikTok now. The other one refused to acknowledge that they dislike me; the other one engaged (liking and replying) to others' comments and praises but not from me. It's important to remember that, since the information I get is very limited, I can only assume: they are controlling me to stop engaging with them. Their content always appears on my FYP.
#narcissism #tiktok #socialmedia #onlinebehaviour #selectiveengagement #controltactics #psychology #mentalhealth #boundaries #digitalwellbeing #frustration #ignored #validation #humantech #socialdynamics #onlineinteraction #fyp #narcissist
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[Micro-weblog] My latest weblog post continues the reflection on human interaction: The person consistently rejected my genuine compliments because they reject external judgments entirely, seeking a high degree of self-sufficiency. This rejection of validation is a psychological defense that, while admirable in its independence, definitely hurts the giver.
https://weblog.kalvin.my/2-the-pain-of-rejected-compliments-a-study-in-external-validation/
#psychology #externalvalidation #selfsufficiency #rejectedcompliments #onlineinteraction #mentalhealth #neurodiversity #introspection #growth #emotions #boundaries #humane #reflection #socialdynamics #personalgrowth #validation #autism #weblog #thoughts
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[Micro-weblog] My latest weblog post continues the reflection on human interaction: The person consistently rejected my genuine compliments because they reject external judgments entirely, seeking a high degree of self-sufficiency. This rejection of validation is a psychological defense that, while admirable in its independence, definitely hurts the giver.
https://weblog.kalvin.my/2-the-pain-of-rejected-compliments-a-study-in-external-validation/
#psychology #externalvalidation #selfsufficiency #rejectedcompliments #onlineinteraction #mentalhealth #neurodiversity #introspection #growth #emotions #boundaries #humane #reflection #socialdynamics #personalgrowth #validation #autism #weblog #thoughts
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[Micro-weblog] My online psychology reflection: It hurts when genuine compliments are consistently rejected. If the person rejects both praise and insults, it suggests they reject *all* external judgment, seeking total self-sufficiency. I admire that high level of independence, even if my raw self still wishes for that tidy, dedicated house!
https://weblog.kalvin.my/the-pain-of-rejected-compliments-a-study-in-external-validation/
#psychology #reflection #mentalhealth #selfsufficiency #validation #compliments #socialdynamics #rejection #onlineinteraction #tiktok #emotions #personaldevelopment #neurodiversity #autism #housinggoals #honesty #introspection #therapy #growth
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You want to meet me, don't make me work for it
https://gist.github.com/ibehnam/793584b04dde6028b35666eaa2b611b4
#HackerNews #You #want #to #meet #me #make #me #work #for #it #HackerNews #Networking #SocialDynamics #Communication #WorkLifeBalance
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I wish I could explain to you all how proud (and simultaneously insecure) I am of what I have been working on, and how utterly insane and complex my project has been becoming. 🫠 Suffice to say I have built an automatic device coordination and communication system (including spinning up new data streams :uplink: )...all of that was just to build this simple game for my experiment, but to make it flexible to run with teams of 2, 3, 5, N, players and be able to handle data collection, EEG, and other stuff. :corteximplant_b: :mk2:
It, hopefully, will be a super useful tool for anyone wanting to do research into groups, social dynamics and related investigation...or you could just use it to build a game haha. :commodore:
https://github.com/NexusDynamic/
#lsl #labstreaminglayer #coordination #cnc #cc #dart #cpp #c #ffi #flutter #flame #forge2d #oss #foss #research #cognition #cognitivescience #cogsci #eeg #neuroscience #psychology #socialdynamics #groupdynamics #socialgroupdynamics #research #researchparadigm #paradigm #software #programming #programmer #dev #gamedev #softwaredevelopment #coding
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Linguistic Markers and Mental Health: Understanding Inner States Through Language
#MentalWellness #HumanBehavior #NLP #Psychology #SelfGrowth #Neuroscience #CommunicationSkills #TherapyTips #MentalHealthMatters #SelfDiscovery #PsychologicalTools #SocialDynamics #MindAndBody #PersonalDevelopment
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Linguistic Markers and Mental Health: Understanding Inner States Through Language
#MentalWellness #HumanBehavior #NLP #Psychology #SelfGrowth #Neuroscience #CommunicationSkills #TherapyTips #MentalHealthMatters #SelfDiscovery #PsychologicalTools #SocialDynamics #MindAndBody #PersonalDevelopment
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Linguistic Markers and Mental Health: Understanding Inner States Through Language
#MentalWellness #HumanBehavior #NLP #Psychology #SelfGrowth #Neuroscience #CommunicationSkills #TherapyTips #MentalHealthMatters #SelfDiscovery #PsychologicalTools #SocialDynamics #MindAndBody #PersonalDevelopment
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Linguistic Markers and Mental Health: Understanding Inner States Through Language
#MentalWellness #HumanBehavior #NLP #Psychology #SelfGrowth #Neuroscience #CommunicationSkills #TherapyTips #MentalHealthMatters #SelfDiscovery #PsychologicalTools #SocialDynamics #MindAndBody #PersonalDevelopment
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Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity: Understanding MAGA and the stupidity mind virus.
https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc?si=FVXy-UwJwFDDwzTA
#Bonhoeffer #psychology
#Theorofstupidity
#StupidityMindVirus #MAGA #PoliticalPsychology #CriticalThinking #SocialDynamics #PowerAndStupidity #MindManipulation #CognitiveBias #MassPsychology #PoliticalInfluence #StupidityVsEvil
#SocialImpact #PhilosophicalThought