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A professor who studies sympathetic pregnancy has reported that he has symptoms consistent with a diagnosis of COUVADE-19, including weight gain, food cravings, mood swings and reduced libido. “Ever since my wife got pregnant, I just haven’t been the same” reversepsychologytoday.com/blog/anthropol…

“By the time you read the update on CNN, FiveThirtyEight is going to have another morsel from some obscure county in PA,” one professor told RPT. “It’s like pulling a slot machine in a smokey, seedy casino. I know it's a mistake, but I can’t help myself.” reversepsychologytoday.com/blog/professor…




Preprints "Not As Good As Peer Reviewed Papers" Claims Paper Published on Preprint Server. “if you don’t have to jump through a bunch of semi-arbitrary hoops to please a few chronically fatigued and unpaid reviewers, the papers aren’t going to be as good” reversepsychologytoday.com/blog/preprints…







“This is really a good thing for the field," one of the lead researchers told RPT. "Unfalsifiable hypotheses laid the foundation for psychological science. At least we can be sure that there’s no need to critically evaluate research conducted before 1975.” reversepsychologytoday.com/blog/unfalsifi…



“We noticed that people were starting to wonder whether they should just completely give up on life,” said the author of the study, “so we decided to conduct a study to find out whether life has a point or whether it is all just meaningless bullshit.” reversepsychologytoday.com/blog/psycholog…


A new study of online dating found that men prefer women who “can’t make them laugh” over women who are funny. This confirmed the researchers hypothesis that men have been sexually selected to feel threatened by women who are funnier than they are. reversepsychologytoday.com/blog/new-datin…
