Psychology
The scientific study of mind and behavior.
Subcategories
- Cognitive Psychology — Mental processes: perception, attention, memory, and reasoning.
- Developmental Psychology — How people change across the lifespan: physical, cognitive, and social development.
- Social Psychology — How people think about, influence, and relate to one another.
Articles (6)
- How Dating App Algorithms Actually Work
What is actually known about how Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble rank and match profiles — separating documented mechanics from viral myths about secret scores. - Dating App Shadowbans: What They Are and How to Actually Test
The shadowban theory examined: what platforms actually restrict, how to run a real test instead of a panic diagnosis, and the ordinary causes that look like bans. - Why You're Not Getting Matches on Dating Apps
The measurable reasons profiles stop matching — photos, first impressions, deck position, and market realism — ranked by how much each one moves the outcome. - How to Write a Dating Profile That Gets Responses
A dating profile is an indexing document and a first impression at once — how to write one that survives the swipe and gives strangers something to say. - Classical Conditioning
The learning process discovered by Ivan Pavlov in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a reflexive response. - Operant Conditioning
Learning through consequences: reinforcement increases behavior and punishment decreases it, as studied by B. F. Skinner.