Psychology FACTS on TikTok

I have my final paper for my Psychology degree today and this really helped to get in some last-minute revision. Thank you Chad Chad! 🙏🏽

After watching this and downloading TikTok I’ve become a licensed psychologist. Now I can keep the money I saved up for a psychology degree and buy a private jet.
Thank you Chad Chad. 👍🏻

As a psychology major, it drives me crazy how much pop-psych has poisoned most people’s concept of how the human mind works. It seems anyone can make up a new difference between men and women, or how to tell if your crush likes you, and people will spread it around like influenza. Actual psychology is so fascinating that I struggle to see why people need to make up things to talk about.

i love that so many of these are “dark psychology” facts, like its an entirely separate branch of psychology they teach in universities. just imagine the possibilities of a work of dark academic fields… dark sociology… dark linguistics… dark law.. dark environmental science and sustainable technologies… business management and economics…

If a friend told me they travelled around the world in a private jet, I’d likely smile because that’d be a fun thing to talk about. I’d like to hear the cool stories of what they’ve seen on their travels. I didn’t know I was a exploitative parasite, but I guess those mad scientists over on TikTok understand me better than I do myself! :V

There’s something that *really* freaks me out about those “dark psychology” videos: Half of them look like an abuser’s handbook and I’ve had a friend that definitely did that cycle of validation before pulling away to me. And it pains me to admit that it worked until he went after my partner.

It’s honestly wild to me that despite the fact that mental health awareness among younger generations is way better than it once was but people with Cluster B personality disorders like NPD are still treated like some creepy monsters lurking in the shadows just waiting for the opportunity to manipulate you like bruh…they’re just people with a specific disorder.

just got my bachelor’s in psych (and plan to continue in the field) and every time someone uses ~psychology~ or ~psychology facts~ to explain something i subtract one second from my doomsday clock. psychology is such a broad field with lots of different perspectives on the “how” and “why” of behavior; try to state something that is seen as “correct” in one interpretation’s perspective to a person who is a member of a different interpretation’s school of thought and you will start an argument. put a humanistic psychologist and a behaviorist into the same room and watch them fight to the death.
also every time ppl use cluster b personality disorders as a synonym for “evil” i subtract TWO seconds. it’s ableism, pure and simple. ppl with personality disorders are not somehow a worse human or more likely to be an abuser. correlation and causation and all that. there’s still so much stigma surrounding the less “pretty” conditions (personality disorders, schizophrenia, etc), even in (and especially amongst) people *in the field,* which makes those who may have these conditions less likely to seek diagnosis+treatment.
this is kinda rambly but my point here is that i hate pop psychology and most of the time all it does is increase misinfo and stigmas.

It is so hilarious that they refer to “dark psychology” like some kind of forbidden magic when it’s just acting confusingly.

When they refer to women as “females”,you know their advice is going to be toxic.

The funniest thing about that one woman who was like “here’s how you spot a narcissist” is that if she actually bothered to research NPD even a little bit she’d find out it’s a traumagenic mental disorder. That people get via repetitive childhood trauma due to a certain dysfunctional/abusive parenting style and it’s often comorbid with CPTSD, just like BPD. And not something you can just “tell” somebody has or use in place of ways to describe somebody who’s egotistical, arrogant or an asshole.
That and it’s also hilarious that she’s implying all people with NPD are abusive or going to manipulate you. Way to stigmatize an already very demonized mental disorder lol.

I like how they treat manipulation tactics like they’re some kind of “dark magic”. Really adds a lot of whimsy to the act of lying and manipulating people

Psychology Tip: To test if your friend is a narcissist, tell them you have a live squirrel inside your chest. Now *pay close attention* because their next reaction will tell you everything. If they have a hopeful look in their eye, it means they are a squirrel, and they think the squirrel in your chest might be their long lost sister. But if they have a hungry look in their eye, *they are a cannibal squirrel* and you need to flee as fast as you can