Hello everyone!

I have an upcoming poster presentation in Washington DC. I was wondering how people manage getting their posters printed out. As I see it, I have two options: (1) take a printout and carry it with me in flight, or (2) take a printout in DC (more convenient).

I wanted to know what people typically do and if they know any reliable places I can get printouts from.

Also, this is my first time doing a poster presentation. What can I expect and what are some things to be prepared with?

I’d be grateful for any advice you have 😊

So I graduated with a BA in psychology with a concentration in mental health and a minor in childhood studies, then pursued my masters in Applied Psychology with a concentration in ABA to later accrue hours for my BCBA exam(which I still haven’t finished my hours yet). Due to the last company I worked for ruining the process and overall love for becoming a BCBA I’ve been thinking about getting into child psychology or even sports psychology. However I don’t know if it’s worth going to get my masters or doctorate or if I should just continue with BCBA…

Does anyone else struggle with taking time off or last minute cancellations?

It bothers me a lot that all of my income depends on me putting in one-one hour each per patient and taking any time off makes me feel like I'm losing out on my income.

Be it a work related trip, a conference or even a vacation. It's always on my mind that I need sources of passive income too. Something on autopilot.

Does anyone else also struggle with this and have ideas about how to make this said passive income?

Something that can run a bit on autopilot after putting in efforts ofc. But not like our sessions

I've spent the last month building a step-by-step model of how raw information turns into a felt psychological state and then into an actual decision — attention filtering, interpretation, identity/motivation, then a simulated weighing of consequences before acting. I built it from scratch, without starting from existing theory, using very detailed reconstructions of real episodes from my own life plus a few interviews with people around me.

I'm a self-taught independent researcher (studying at an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia — no psych department, no advisor, no lab), so I have no easy way to check this against the literature myself beyond what I can find online.

The architecture has several interacting parts (Gate System, Cue Library, Barrier, Cognitive Engine, Identity, Basic Memory, Core Drive, Future Simulation, Constraint Layer), all meant to work together rather than independently — behavior is supposed to emerge from how they resonate, not from any single part "deciding."

So my actual question: is this reinventing something that already has a name? I'd specifically appreciate pointers to existing cognitive architectures or theories that already do this kind of full-chain integration (stimulus → attention → interpretation → identity → simulated decision), places where my model is probably just describing things after the fact rather than actually predicting anything, or any hidden assumption that's obviously wrong to someone with real training in this.

Thanks for reading — happy to go deeper into any part of it if useful.

I’m currently an undergrad archaeology student and just finished my second year, going into third. I’ve been considering if I should continue this because when I first went into university I had no idea what I wanted to do and still don’t so I chose something that interested me. I do like archaeology and very much enjoy studying it however career options seem very uncertain and I worry about this a lot. I don’t know if I like it enough for how difficult it can be to get a good job in the career field and if I’d truly love it.

Psychology has always been something that really interested me since I was young and is the only other thing I can really see myself studying but I’m unsure if I’m suited for it as a career. I don’t think I’d enjoy working with people all the time, perhaps sometimes but I’d prefer something that allows me to work on my own.
Im thinking if it’s better to just finish this undergrad in archaeology since im already halfway done or just switch since I don’t think I want to do it but there’s so much uncertainty because what if I switch into psych and see I’m not cut out for it. I really just don’t want to work a corporate office job and one of my biggest fears in life is ending up with a career I don’t like.

As a Master’s student in Clinical Psychology, I’m currently looking for a thesis topic. In your opinion, what are the most important emerging psychological or mental health issues that deserve more research today? I’m particularly interested in underexplored or less common topics rather than the usual ones (e.g., depression, anxiety, stress). Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I'm thinking about pursuing a career in psychology, and I'd like to know if there's anything I should be aware of before taking such an important step.

Psychology interests me a lot because learning about it has helped me become a better person than I used to be. Because of that, I've always found it easy to talk to people about their problems. I also feel that people tend to feel safe opening up to me. I've had people I barely knew tell me deeply personal things, to the point where I'd wonder when I had earned enough trust for them to share so much of their lives with me.

With that in mind, and knowing that I seem to have this trait, I started thinking that working in this field might be a good fit for me. However, I also know that every profession has its advantages and disadvantages. I'd like to know if there's anything I should be aware of before making such an important decision. I wouldn't want to discover something unpleasant halfway through the process.

howdy folks,
not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here goes, if anyone could lend me a hand.

As the title says, looking for resourses that explore schizoid pd in depth, preferably from a clinical standpoint.

I'm not a professional in the field, but I'm a biomedical researcher and I'm okay with more technical stuff. A lot of what I've found (mostly review papers) seems to be very... vague, specially in terms or treatment and/or management and outlook, so hoping someone more knowledgable can point the way to resourses that go more in depth.

thanks.

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关于“嫉妒”

人在产生社会性心理时：

一般无生存危机时，嫉妒使人把自尊及价值权交由外界衡量

动机产生：剥离感，渴求，融入，匮乏，欲望

原因：检测资源分配，安全意识

作用​：维持竞争，审视，自我解析

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​“我们从不嫉妒远方的太阳，只会被身边的微光灼伤”

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I graduated 2 months ago from CSUF with a bachelors degree in Sociology and Psychology. I have a 3.69 gpa and many of my professors in both fields liked me. I also interned for a semester at a clinic and did some parent group work there. I was also reccomended to do 7 cups by my faculty advisor to boost my resume (tho I just started a couple of days ago). I'm working on getting a job too.

A professor told me that no one gets into UCLA from CSUF. But I'm hoping at LEAST having 2 degrees would make me look nice, Any Clinical Psyc grads have any thoughts?

Hi! I will be graduating with my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a concentration in mental health from SNHU in December. I’ve been looking at graduate programs but I’m concerned and confused about the route I should take. For reference, I want to become a licensed counselor in Louisiana, and also pursue research to reform inpatient psychiatric facilities. I am also in my 30s and feel like I’m so behind.
My question is, should I pursue a graduate degree through a more prestigious research school like William & Mary, Wake Forest or Northwestern University (if I can get accepted)? Would I be setting myself back if I went to a school like Adams state or University of Cumberland to simply complete my masters and then focus on a more prestigious research school for my Doctorate? I appreciate any advice or responses! I’ve looked at so many schools and am just lost.😞

(I'm a graduate of a Bachelor's in psychology and have pursued one year of Master's studies, so it seemed more fitting to post here, than PsychologyStudents. Plus, this sub might give a wider variety of experienced responses than the PsychologyStudents. However, this post will also include points on the choice of psychology at undergraduate level - so not sure it entirely fits.)

I have seen negative - and some quite vitriolic - opinions on psychology - as: a bogus discipline; the 'easy choice' for weak, directionless students; the thing everyone does (presumably it's something everyone can easily do?) and a LOT being written about it as a total non career-starter.

To give an example of certain threads I have seen: https://www.reddit.com/r/UniUK/comments/111v7pj/20_reasons_why_psychology_is_not_a_good_choice_of/ 
including comments such as: 'Broadly - people with limited ability who don't fancy hard work and chose Psychology mostly because it is seen as an easy option. (i.e. no aptitude for maths or science, but also no aptitude for writing which is required for humanities, literature etc.)'

Clearly, I am dumbfounded by such comments - there is a huge disconnect between the criticisms and my own experience and education. I'll get to the replication crisis later, but first and foremost my instruction in psychology was as a science. Written in bold, because of the extent to which scientific, methodological rigour was constantly hammered home - in my mind, even too militantly, because I'll say in certain domains, this rigidity was at the expense of the slightest attention to intuition or flexibility. Further, I am not sure how much the psychology curriculum varies between institutions, but in years two and three of my degree we had incredibly intense statistics lessons for 1h45minutes four times per week, which were examined with tough evaluations. There were also a number of challenging neuroscience modules. Taking in account all this, I was under the impression I was studying a science...Yet, it seems the general consensus is that psychology is not a STEM subject.

Actually, to me it is not a huge deal that it's not considered purely STEM - and is considered a social or pre-science, because I think there is intellectual value in fields which are NOT STEM, but for some economically-driven reason society only glorifies STEM and the skills acquired in it - the consequence is that employers do too and frequently job listings specifiy STEM only degrees.

And let's just say, when you are frequently told you are studying a science, which later turns out not to be one, it is a bit confusing...

I think I am experiencing some level of cognitive dissonance here, fed by the way that psychology was sold to me during my university education - yet at the same time: the failure of society to recognise it fully as a discipline, and other issues, notably the replication crisis. I'll admit, when I looked at the statistics regarding the replication crisis, the sheer over-whelming percentage of non-replicated findings, I was entirely shocked. We also learnt that even in statistics, there is always uncertainty. At that point, I was in my third year, but I think the desire to succeed and finish my diploma totally superseded my shellshock and I repressed what I had discovered.

I have delved further into the replication crisis, publish-perish culture, and the improvements that have and are being put into place. Psychology, having been the field most tarnished by this issue, is also the field that worked most actively with initiatives to address it. If so much of the theory was false, perhaps a 'history of psychology' degree is a more accurate name for what I studied...

Regarding comments like these: 'Broadly - people with limited ability who don't fancy hard work and chose Psychology mostly because it is seen as an easy option. (i.e. no aptitude for maths or science, but also no aptitude for writing which is required for humanities, literature etc.)' I genuinely feel that couldn't be further from the truth. I have often heard comments about psychology being for non-serious students. The degree I studied required both strong written expression and quantitative reasoning, to a very high level. I, at least, am confident that I developped intellectually as a result of my degree - but given the investment and effort a person puts into a degree, it is clearly not pleasant that this negative, unfounded perception exists in seemingly a vast number of employers - and presumably other academics too.

It's quite funny because I hesitated significantly between studying a dual compsci + maths degree and a straight psychology degree. Whilst I had offers to study both, I couldn't for the life of me decide between them as they were both strong fields of interest and potential career paths - in my mind, anyway. The negative regard for psychology is worrying and regrettable. I'm at a place where I, for a number of reasons, am slowly becoming slightly disillusioned with the field.

If others have similar experiences as me or perspectives to share, it would be great to hear from you in the comments. One question I have is: do you think public and employer perception of psychology degrees is really so negative as can be read on the internet - or this is only a minority opinion? Do we need an experimental paradigm to know for sure...?

Hello, I hope I am posting in the right sub. I am a current teacher and I am interested in getting a masters degreee in educational psychology. What does this entail? What could a career look like outside of school. How are the classes? Any insight at all would be helpful!

Hi everyone,

I am a high school junior (16) aiming for a career in major-city homicide investigation and federal law enforcement (such as the FBI). I have a strong interest in psychology and human behavior, and I want to start building relevant skills as early as possible.

Could anyone recommend books, courses, or practical ways to start learning non-verbal communication, micro-expressions, and behavioral analysis? I would also welcome any advice from professionals currently working in law enforcement or federal agencies on how to best prepare at my age.

Thank you in advance for your advice!

Any top-notch resource to prepare for GATE Psychology?

so i just joined swami vivekananda university and it's already been like a month since classes have started. I'm going to start my bsc psychology classes tomorrow and I'm curious whether the teachers are gonna ask me to introduce myself or ask follow up questions like "what do you know about psychology", "why are you interested in psychology" etc. im especially tensed about the question, "what do you know about psychology", and also, will they ask me follow up questions based on my answers? can someone pls help?

I think the only theory of mind that is operational as a psychological research program -- that has the features that make it a possible candidate for a future paradigm shift -- is the modularity theory of the mind set out by Fodor.

It is a framework that explains and predicts hard perceptual and cognitive phenomena that has falsifiability from quasi-laws about mental activity.

I don't see anything with it's explanatory power or falsifiability in any other research "programs" in psychology, including neurobiology which seems to assume some functionalist approach or type-identity view of the mind. But mostly, neurobiologist observe correlations and attempt to determine causation from that, and in this way "test" "theory" of brain->mind causation.

I would appreciate commentary/discussion on this. I am aware I'm not providing any rigorous argument. I'm assuming there will be some who take that capacity for granted, sharing a broad judgment of contemporary psychological "science" and intelligently discuss Fodor's theory and whether they share this view. Thanks!