Angdi (Andie) Chu

This kind of low expectations on psychology undergrads actually creates an unequal environment for underprivileged students, because now only students who are familiar with the system know where to get more research trainings, then as a results they are the ones getting accepted in grad schools.

and will not even ask students to write a small proposal. We have taken more than 2 research method courses and the department still thinks psychology undergrads are unable to draft a proper proposal? This kind of application process seems to be easier, but it actually means less chances to learn.

award application processes, the opportunities for undergrads to do research, etc. For example, undergraduate research awards applications in our med school require applicants to write a proper research proposal and students' past research experience; but in psych department it is less professional,

but our psychology department (not all) tends to assume undergrads as older kids who do not have the ability to do professional works right and will heavily rely on faculties.
This reflects not on individual faculty members, but more on different departments' policies, such as

As my current supervisor is under the Schulich med school, I observed some differences in undergraduate educations between med school and psychology department in my university. Generally speaking, our med school see undergrads as young trainees who have the ability to do research with supervision;

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Don't like the research method, but found something else: there were over 46% hispanic in this sample (sample were incarcerated men in state prisons) and only 31% caucasians. This is fucked up.

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Hi, thanks for this comment. However, my thoughts are from a curiosity of research aspect. Psychosis disorders are long suspected to be a spectrum condition than may even span to certain more extreme personality traits, which is why I made this comment

I have seen multiple case studies on ChatGPT and other LLM chatbots induced psychosis recently. I'm wondering if these bots are too realistic, so that people who have a less integrated sense of reality would easily believe it's real, and this author may be a milder case on the spectrum...

Found an old article written by "Leon", a child from a case study of Edna O’Shaughnessy. A healthy child went through a very delusional practice, reminded me of the Rosenhan experiment. I'm so glad that modern psychology has come so far from these practices.
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My thoughts on the #betterposter design: I now like it. Yes, it does cost a lot of space to put a huge callout, but it is easy to get the main takeouts of the study, which is what most people read anyway. I also weirdly love how it forces me to only put key points in it. Nobody scans the QR code.

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While I was preparing it, I discovered a new type of poster design by @mikemorrison.bsky.social. I didn't like it at first, but then was intrigued on its ability to generate more interaction. Results? I was talking the whole hour!

A psychologist with solid research experience should be allowed if not preferred in clinical research and practices, after they have done trainings in clinical practices. Why would students from some APA accredited low quality PsyD programs can get in hospitals and VAs, but not these psychologists?

Also, she is what we call now a "back-door psychologist" — a psychologist from experimental psych (social psych in her case) background but did a post-doctoral training and clinical internship. Backdoor psychologists are much discriminated by the public section today. This does not make any sense!

"Not fitting in is somewhat a fact of life for me." Yep, Dr. Marsha Linehan is autistic, had CPTSD with dissociative symptoms. Not BPD, DID or psychotic disorders

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So much hate and justified cruelty everywhere on internet, even here.

Forgot to say that these have nothing to do with Buddhism. These were naturally developed in China from the cavemen time. Buddhism came to China at least 700 years later after the born of this system and the first text of the 12 zodiac signs. Buddhism was not popular in China in most of our history.

Chinese (the liberati) traditionally employed a holistic approach to mental heal struggles too: resting, emotion regulation (no big emotions and being tranquil are considered a virtue), lifestyle changes, meditation, acupuncture, and cultivating intellectual hobbies (music, reading, painting, etc)

It emphasizes attention to mental health too. Mental health issues were thought of an interaction between bodily organs and cognitions (e.g. thoughts, emotions, etc) in traditional Chinese medicine. Extreme emotions were thought to hurt organs, causing health problems.

These have also create a new hobby / research specialty for traditional Chinese liberati called 养生 (yǎng shēng), which can be translated literally as "nurturing and preserving". It is a holistic way of promoting health, including also physical exercise (e.g. the Five Animal Poses), healthy lifestyle

Since seasons, hours and our body are all using this tīan gān dì zhī system, we can correspond them together and summarize a holistic health care plan. For example, for the zǐ (rat) time, it's correspondent to the gallbladder, and the next is the liver, so at 11pm one should sleep to nurture them.

so starting from the rat as the first two hours of a day, from around 11 pm to 1 am). They are also used in fēng shuǐ and other fortune telling traditions, as well as traditional Chinese medicines, when combining with the 5 Elements (五行, wǔ xíng) — metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. (2026 is fire)

The horse represents "午 (wǔ)", And this cycle of tiān gān is the 3rd (丙, bǐng). Therefore, 2026 is actually recorded as the year "3-Horse" (丙午, bǐng wǔ) in Chinese. This system is used in many places, such as time system of the day: every 2 hours is one dì zhī,

Happy Chinese New Year! 2026 is the year of horse. 🐎 The 12 Chinese zodiac signs are just a simple visual representation for part of the large Chinese calendar system. The 12 animals represents 12 地支 (dì zhī), combined with 10 天干 (tiān gān, numbers), years are indexed as a sexagenary cycle system.

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94% of the case involved injury, 4%malfunction, and 1% death. Common symptoms: anxiety (8.2%), neurocognitive changes (8.0%), seizures (6.9%), headache (6.9%), and tinnitus (5.6%). 46% from Neuronetics. Median reporting delay was 1.4 months, but some > 6 years.
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They also tend to underestimated how hard it is to have a good romantic relationship with someone in a different developmental stage. This issue is becoming more prominent now that women are rejecting to be treated as a property / slave.

But I now realized that, sometimes it may just because the older one forgets about how much younger their partner is, and they, as most people, don’t know people have different developmental stages, so they expects their young partner to behave the same way their peers do.

This experience gave me a little insights on romantic relationships with large age gaps. Lots of people think that as long as both parties are consensual adults, the relationship will be fine. Others argue about the possibility of power imbalance. But I now realized that,