Psychological Science

There was one done in 2013, Global Environment Change.

There was one done in 2013, Psychological Science was the name of the paper.

And they point to, obviously, people are happier if they're outside, but it only counts if it's some sort of green space.

Yes.

Our profile picture says a lot about us.

According to research published in Psychological Science, slight variations in how an individual face is viewed can lead people to develop significantly different first impressions of that person.

While no one can change their face, we do have control over what the photo represents and how we want it to be perceived.

I want you to test your profile picture.

You've got to be very vague.

You've got to be a, a, a, an onion that she's gotta peel back all the layers, right? Or, or a parfait, right? [laughs] Or a parfait if you're a fra- a fan of, uh, Shrek and Donkey, right? And there was a study, um, I talk about it in Everything I Wish I Knew When I Was 18, but there was a study from the Association for Psychological Science, and they found that women are more attracted to men whose feelings are unclear, okay? So, so, uh, I always...

I say it on the podcast.

It's something I learned from Corey Wayne, right? Like, women are more attracted to men whose feelings are unclear.

That's a part of being a mystery, not being an open book, not being the guy that's always, like, wearing your heart on your sleeves and telling them, like, how you feel and all this kind of crap, okay? Like, uh, uh, women argue about this stuff all the time, but there's a literal study that was done about it.

It was the Association of, for, uh, for Psychological Science.

So don't take my word for it.

Google it, okay? Google it.

Researchers say that question is hardwired into us from childhood.

Psychological Science published a study finding when children were asked to put together a puzzle, they were more likely to complete it if they got to keep the puzzle instead of throwing it away.

Even toddlers demonstrated a need for a sense of purpose.

to co-create with what God has already created, I think is innate, it's spiritual, and that is part of his fingerprint in our lives.

And tech that is designed to remove almost every little inconvenience from our lives.

But there's a really interesting finding, a study that was published in Psychological Science.

People with greater financial resources were less likely to savour the simple pleasures like beautiful scenery or quiet weekends.

And it brings us to something called the comfort crisis.

They do not justify a prescription to replace human support, and they do not mean that people who feel loneliest necessarily benefit least.

The third study, by Dunnigan Folk and Elizabeth Dunn in Psychological Science, tracked social chatbot use and loneliness across four surveys over a year.

It included 2,149 adults in four Western countries.

979 completed all four surveys.

Now to the other half of last Saturday's promise, the cost of misalignment that isn't in dollars.

In 2014, in the journal Psychological Science, researchers reported on more than 6,000 American adults ages 20 to 75 who were followed for 14 years.

The adults with a stronger sense of purpose in life were less likely to die during those 14 years, and the benefit was about the same for younger, middle-aged, and older adults.

Note what the study measured, a sense of purpose in life, not whether a job fits that purpose.

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There's research to back this up, too.

A 2012 paper in Psychological Science found across a series of experiments that power allows people to more fully express their inner dispositions.

As they say, the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

And that is my concern with relying on alignment to make superintelligence safe.

That is a big claim.

So that left me with the question, how true is this really? And fortunately, in 2014, Psychological Science published Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions, a meta-analysis by McNamara, Tombrick, and Oswald, aiming to answer just how much of an individual's performance can be attributed to the cumulative hours of deliberate practice.

If you aren't familiar with meta analysis, meta analysis lets researchers combine results across many studies to estimate how consistent and how large an effect is across a broader body of evidence.

The team ended up with a meta-analysis across 88 studies with 111 independent samples, accounting for 11,135 participants.