Autistic Burnout vs Depression: How to Tell Them Apart
The first research study of autistic burnout was only published in 2020, and autistic adults who have lived through it say it was often mistaken for d…
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ADHD in Women and Girls: Why It Gets Missed
In Denmark, ADHD diagnoses peak at age 8 for boys but age 17 for girls. ADHD in women and girls is often quieter rather than absent, and that nine-yea…
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Explained
Search the research literature for the exact phrase “rejection sensitive dysphoria” and you will find it in the title of two papers. One of them a…
Hyperfixation vs Special Interest: What the Evidence Says
Search the research literature for "hyperfixation" and you get 26 papers. Every single one is about radioactive tracers lighting up on a body scan. No…
Writing a Psychology Report: Sections Explained
Half of all published psychology papers that use significance testing contain at least one p-value that does not match its own test statistic (Nuijten…
Features of Science in Psychology: Falsifiability and Paradigms
When 100 published psychology studies were repeated, 97% of the originals had reported significant results but only 36% of the repeats did. The featur…
Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion in Psychology
In 1907 Francis Galton lined up 787 guesses of an ox's weight. The middle guess, the median, was 1,207 lb. The ox weighed 1,198 lb (Galton, 1907). Cho…
Normal and Skewed Distributions in Psychology: A-Level Guide
When Theodore Micceri tested 440 large sets of psychology and education scores for a normal distribution, every single one failed the test (Micceri, 1…
Self-Report Methods in Psychology: Questionnaires and Interviews
Offered on a list, "to think for themselves" was chosen by 61.5% of people. Asked the same question with no list, only 4.6% said it. That gap is the c…
Observational Techniques in Psychology: Types and Design
When eight sane people secretly had themselves admitted to psychiatric hospitals, staff never spotted them, but 35 of 118 patients counted on the ward…