60.21 Psychology

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A map of the vault’s psychology material: mind and brain, belief and bias, emotion and mental health, personality and social behavior, coercion, and performance. Begin with the topic hubs, use the Psychology Books library for sustained study, and use the auto-index for the complete folder inventory.

“There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.”

— David G. Myers → Psychology quotes

Pinker’s Chapter 8 supplement — no single “violence center”

Pinker uses these diagrams to reject a one-drive or one-region account of aggression. Subcortical systems involving the amygdala, hypothalamus, midbrain/periaqueductal gray, and striatum contribute to fear, rage, seeking, and reward; cortical regions including the orbital and ventromedial cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, cingulate, insula, and temporoparietal junction contribute to inhibition, valuation, conflict monitoring, disgust or unfairness responses, and reasoning about other minds. The same structures support many nonviolent functions, so the figures are anatomical orientation—not a diagnostic scan, a deterministic map, or proof that one brain region “causes” violence.

Figure 8-1 — Rat structures used to introduce interacting aggression circuits. PDF p. 689 (file not included in this release)

Figures 8-2 to 8-4 — Human subcortical and cortical orientation views. Pinker’s larger claim is modular: predation, dominance, revenge, sadism, and ideology have different psychological routes and therefore require different restraints. This is a neuroscience synthesis published in 2011; it should not replace current clinical or neurobiological evidence. Chapter 8 synthesis · Neural-systems argument, PDF pp. 687–703 (file not included in this release) · Figure 8-2, PDF p. 694 (file not included in this release) · Figure 8-3, PDF p. 695 (file not included in this release) · Figure 8-4, PDF p. 696 (file not included in this release)

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Start Here

• Psychology Books (MOC) — the 32-book library grouped by mind, cognition, depth psychology, clinical questions, and social behavior
• Psychology of Belief (MOC) — how people form, defend, and revise beliefs
• The constructed self — brain architecture, consciousness, emotion, social cognition, and belief
• Psychology database (file not included in this release) · Legacy working note and library

Mind, Brain & Consciousness

• The believing brain — expectation, placebo and nocebo effects, sleep paralysis, and mind–body feedback
• Synaptic Self - How Our Brains Become Who We Are — identity through synaptic organization
• The Emotional Brain - The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life · The Feeling of What Happens - Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
• The Brain That Changes Itself - Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science · The Mind and the Brain - Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
• Cross-vault → Sigmund Freud · 60.9 Philosophy

Bias, Belief & Judgment

• Belief mechanisms · cognitive bias
• Affective Primacy in Moral and Political Judgment — how rapid valence can steer attention before explicit reasons, when reflection can correct it, and which Chapter 3 findings need replication review
• Why Smart People Get Things Wrong - Daniel Kahneman and Sam Harris — Kahneman on System 1/System 2, valid intuition, framing, overconfidence, loss aversion, and decision architecture
• Replication Crisis — why published effects can fail to reproduce; p-hacking, publication bias, disputed studies, misconduct cases, and the open-science response
• A Mind of Its Own- How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives — self-deception, hindsight bias, wishful thinking, and ego defense
• Blind Spots - Why Smart People Do Dumb Things · On Being Certain - Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
• Cognitive Biases and Information Evaluation — a visual reference for evaluating information
• Cross-vault → 60.10 Argumentation · Logic MOC

Emotion, Mental Health & Behavior

• Anxiety · Depression · Addiction Journal Notes
• How to do CBT · Distorted Automatic Thoughts
• Borderline personality disorder: signs · shame and guilt
• Psychiatry and medication → Comfortably Numb - How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation · Prozac Backlash
• Cross-vault → 60.12 Self-Improvement · 60.5 Parenting

Personality, Morality & Social Influence

• Personality Assessment — preserved assessment references
• Human Lie Detector - Leanne ten Brinke on Deception and Dark Personality Traits — source summary and transcript on lie-detection limits, dark personality traits, and practical boundaries
• Covert Narcissism (Vulnerable Narcissism and NPD) — diagnostic boundaries, higher-signal patterns, self- and spouse-assessment, differential diagnosis, prevalence, safety, and current science
• Gender, Conformity, and Affiliation Under Social Pressure — source audit of sex and gender differences in public conformity, relationship incentives, threat affiliation, co-rumination, contagion, groupthink, and marketing.
• Groupishness, Shared Intentionality, and Multilevel Selection — how shared plans, norms, identity, and free-rider suppression can scale cooperation while also sharpening moral boundaries; includes the contested evolutionary case and a practical audit.
• Collective Effervescence, Synchrony, and the Hive Switch — how synchrony, awe, ritual, common identity, and shared competition can temporarily quiet self-focus; distinguishes plural, accountable belonging from coercive or leader-centered hiving.
• Morality by nature — cooperation, intuition, moral emotion, and evolutionary accounts
• Political (Meta-)Dehumanization - Petsko and Kteily (2024) — original face-composite study, its figures and limits, plus a separately sourced audit of the Chip/Tyrone moral-dilemma experiments
• Cult Tactics · Combatting Cult Mind Control · Releasing The Bonds - Empowering People to Think for Themselves
• Unmasking the Face · Figuring Out People - Reading People Using Meta-Programs · Surrounded by Narcissist
• Cross-vault → 60.17 Influence & Negotiation · The Law of Human Nature · Social Contagion

Performance, Learning & Application

• Sport Performance — mental skills, attention, practice, and competitive execution
• Peak Mind · Talent Is Overrated · The Talent Code - Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How
• Learning · 60.12 Self-Improvement
• Psychology in practice → Thinking Doesn’t Have to Feel So Hard · Psychological Inoculation Theory

Cross-Vault Connections

• Quotes: Psychology quotes · Judgement quotes · Social quotes
• Argument and persuasion: Psychology of Belief (MOC) · Rhetoric & Persuasion (MOC) · 60.17 Influence & Negotiation
• Mind and morality: 60.9 Philosophy · Morality · The Psychology of Morality - Peterson Academy
• Development and wellbeing: 60.5 Parenting · 60.12 Self-Improvement · Mindfulness-Attention

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Book Library

🧬 Brain, emotion & consciousness

Synaptic Self - How Our Brains Become Who We Are · The Emotional Brain - The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life · The Feeling of What Happens - Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness · I of the Vortex- From Neurons to Self · The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat - And Other Clinical Tales

🧩 Cognition, certainty & behavior

A Mind of Its Own- How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives · Blind Spots - Why Smart People Do Dumb Things · On Being Certain - Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not · Traffic

🌒 Jung, symbols & the self

Man and His Symbols · Memories, Dreams, Reflections · Modern Man in Search of a Soul · The Undiscovered Self

🧍 Social behavior, influence & coercion

The Handbook of Social Psychology · Unmasking the Face · Combatting Cult Mind Control · Releasing The Bonds - Empowering People to Think for Themselves · Mind Hunter - Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

Full themed inventory → Psychology Books (MOC).

Concept Routes Through Recent Book Notes

• Bias and judgment: the self-deceiving brain · bias and risk in everyday driving
• Control and belief: cult control and recovery · the BITE model and autonomy
• Personality and influence: meta-programs · narcissistic manipulation · facial expression and emotion
• Self and society: individuation versus mass-mindedness · James across psychology, pragmatism, and religion
• Language and cognition: language as a window into thought
• Evolution and biology: sexual selection and human behavior · experience, stress, and gene expression

Handwritten Notebook Pages

Source

Open Psychology notebook pages — start at notebook p. 208 (file not included in this release).

Handwritten Notebook Topics

• Entitled Narcissism — entitlement as a trait and behavioral pattern

Filed captures and working notes — October 2026

Psychology, learning and behavioral-source notes

• Ekman face untrue? — preserved working note or source capture
• Introduction to Abnormal Psychology (Part I & II) — preserved working note or source capture
• Modeling Neurological Diseases With Human Brain Organoids — preserved working note or source capture
• Moral Foundations Theory — preserved working note or source capture
• The Solipsism of Pain - Vladimir Nabokov — preserved working note or source capture
• Unhelpful Thinking Styles — preserved working note or source capture

Auto-index

Base index

Psychology.base (file not included in this release)

• Addiction Journal Notes

• Affective Primacy in Moral and Political Judgment

• Anxiety

• Assets

• Books

  • 50 Psychology Classics- Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do; Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books
  • A Mind of Its Own- How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
  • Blind Spots - Why Smart People Do Dumb Things
  • Combatting Cult Mind Control
  • Comfortably Numb - How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
  • Contemplative Science - Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge
  • Figuring Out People - Reading People Using Meta-Programs
  • I of the Vortex- From Neurons to Self
  • Man and His Symbols
  • Memories, Dreams, Reflections
  • Metaphors in Mind - Transformation through Symbolic Modelling
  • Mind Hunter - Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
  • Modern Man in Search of a Soul
  • On Being Certain - Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
  • Prozac Backlash
  • Psychology Books (MOC)
  • Releasing The Bonds - Empowering People to Think for Themselves
  • Surrounded by Narcissist
  • Synaptic Self - How Our Brains Become Who We Are
  • The Brain That Changes Itself - Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
  • The Emotional Brain - The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
  • The Feeling of What Happens - Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
  • The Female Brain
  • The Handbook of Social Psychology
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat - And Other Clinical Tales
  • The Mind and the Brain - Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
  • The Psychobiology of Gene Expression
  • The Red Queen - Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
  • The Stuff of Thought
  • The Undiscovered Self
  • Traffic
  • Unmasking the Face
  • William James - In the Maelstrom of American Modernism

• Borderline Personality Disorder

• CBT

• Cognitive Biases and Information Evaluation

• Collective Effervescence, Synchrony, and the Hive Switch

• Covert Narcissism (Vulnerable Narcissism and NPD)

• Cult Tactics

• Depression

• Ekman face untrue?

• Entitled Narcissism

• Gender, Conformity, and Affiliation Under Social Pressure

• Groupishness, Shared Intentionality, and Multilevel Selection

• Human Lie Detector - Leanne ten Brinke on Deception and Dark Personality Traits

• Introduction to Abnormal Psychology (Part I & II)

• Modeling Neurological Diseases With Human Brain Organoids

• Moral Foundations Theory

• Personality Assessment

• Political (Meta-)Dehumanization - Petsko and Kteily (2024)

• Psychology

• Replication Crisis

• shame–guilt cultures

• Slides

• Sport Performance

• The Neuroscience of Human Nature

• The Psychology of Morality - Peterson Academy

• The Solipsism of Pain - Vladimir Nabokov

• Thinking Doesn’t Have to Feel So Hard

• Unhelpful Thinking Styles

• Why Smart People Get Things Wrong - Daniel Kahneman and Sam Harris