Cognitive Psychology – The Psy of Life

Category: Cognitive Psychology

154 Posts

Cognitive Psychology, Festivus

Festivus 2025: Have Festive Festivus, Y’all!

23 December 2025 — 7 Comments

Biases and Heuristics, Cognitive Psychology

Simplicity Bias Explains A Fickle Electorate, the 2024 Election, and the 2025 Off-Year Elections

8 November 2025 — 15 Comments

Cognitive Psychology

Don’t Let Them Gaslight You: Know What Kimmel Said

20 September 2025 — 59 Comments

Cognitive Psychology

The Disingenuous Dishonesty of Charlie Kirk’s “Debate”

16 September 2025 — 11 Comments

A sculpted version of Dali's Persistance of Memory painting. It depicts a "melting" clock face draped over the limb of a dead tree. The metal is dark. It is in an outdoor square with a mountain in the back and apartments to the left.

Cognitive Psychology

Psychosocracy Watch: An Irregularly Occurring Regular Column for Trump 2.0

3 September 2025 — 17 Comments

Cognitive Psychology

Trump’s Tariffs: Destroying Belief in our Economic Future

16 April 2025 — 36 Comments

Flood your MoC's offices with this simple message to stop lying.

Cognitive Psychology

Shaming the Truth Out of MAGA Republicans by Sending Them the Simple Truth

7 January 2025 — 16 Comments

Why do we put so much stock in polling data? The results play havoc with our perceptions because of our cognitive biases and heuristics

Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Biases and Polling: Navigating the Illusion of Certainty

2 November 2024 — 14 Comments

Can science explain why we're so uncertain of the outcome of the 2024 election?

Cognitive Psychology

Embracing Uncertainty: The Wild Ride of Election 2024

26 October 2024 — 5 Comments

How did we go from a nation of George Washingtons to a nation of sniveling lying Donald Trumps? Menticide

Cognitive Psychology

Election 2024: Menticide or How Trump Replaced Our Democratic Values with Narcissistic Delusions

21 October 2024 — 27 Comments

What could possibly be motivating the 12 angry Democrats who are calling on Biden to drop out of the race? Why are their multiple daily stories on the issue?

Behavior Economics, Cognitive Psychology

Election 2024: The Motivations of the Press and Democrats Behind the Biden So Old Drama

11 July 2024 — 14 Comments

Why is the entire country, but especially liberals, freaking out over Biden's age and his poor debate performance ten days still after it happened?

Cognitive Psychology

Election 2024: Explaining America’s Obsession with Biden So Old Using Cognitive Dissonance

9 July 2024 — 22 Comments

Is there any scientific evidence that Trump's support is conditioned on white nationalism?

Cognitive Psychology, Racism

#ScienceFact: White Nationalism Drives Support for Trump

8 June 2024 — 13 Comments

Why do ALL of the polls have Trump winning and Biden losing elements of his base?

Cognitive Psychology, Politics

Unskewing the Polls: Decoding the Deceptive Polling Numbers of Election 2024

1 June 2024 — 6 Comments

How does white grievance and political efficacy combine to produce an uncompromising MAGA movement?

Cognitive Psychology, Political Psychology

Perceived Lack of Recognition and Divisive Political Efficacy: Fueling Trump Support among Historically Dominant Groups

14 May 2024 — 13 Comments

The Narcissism of Donald Trump

Cognitive Psychology, Narcissistic Personality, Political Psychology

Trump’s Narcissism Apparent in His Campaign Strategy

7 April 2024 — 8 Comments

How has Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Behavioral Economics, Prospect Theory, and Risk Aversion affected Ye Olde Blogge?

Behavior Economics, Cognitive Psychology

The Passing of Daniel Kahneman, Personal Hero and Inspiration of Ye Olde Blogge

30 March 2024 — 9 Comments

Why are we hyper focused on Biden's normal aging and not examining Trump's gross signs and symptoms of dementia?

Cognitive Psychology

Election 2024: At the Intersection of Three Crises, the Fact-Opinion Guessing Game, the Outrage Industrial Complex, and Trump’s Dementia

16 March 2024 — 24 Comments

How do we KNOW Bidened pwn'ed the Republicans during SOTU? Johnson's FACE!

Cognitive Psychology

Biden’s Immigration Trap at the SOTU as told by Speaker Johnson’s FACE

9 March 2024 — 2 Comments

How can smiling help us restore our democracy, strengthen trust in our institutions, and help elect more Democrats in 2024?

Cognitive Psychology

Election 2024: Is Smiling More the Key to Democratic Success?

8 March 2024 — 6 Comments

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STATUS UPDATE

Thursday 28 August
Winnipeg, Canada

Howdy y'all!

The house and the move has finally settled into a lower level of effort. My time is finally freed from some very urgent difficult tasks like assembling furniture and organizing and tracking deliveries.

Good news, La Petite Fille has been officially admitted to university, and we will be getting her registered for classes. They begin next week! But, major milestone in her life, reached. I couldn't be prouder, happier, or, quite honestly, more relieved.

I just published a post concerning how Trump et al. aren't dealing with reality. I'm thinking that it will be an on-going frequent column. The problem is what to call it. The Cray-Cray Watch? Has It Bitten Us in the Ass, Yet? I'm open to suggestions, though.

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Jack

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CalicoJack on Trump’s Venezuela Misadventure is Much More Dangerous than Illegally Taking a Country’s Leader or Oil8 January 2026
Howdy Bob! Blowing up NATO over Greenland -- there is nothing we can get by taking "possession" of Greenland that…
CalicoJack on Off the Editor’s Floor: the Moron Doctrine, the Further Adventures of ICE Agents, Aging, the Musical, and Timothy Snyder on Resistance8 January 2026
Howdy Bob! It seems to me that during the election Trump kept referencing how people were smuggled into the country…
bobcabkings on Off the Editor’s Floor: the Moron Doctrine, the Further Adventures of ICE Agents, Aging, the Musical, and Timothy Snyder on Resistance7 January 2026
As for the dementia process, yes. My Dad sometimes would get in time warps, or pulling visual memories to fill…
bobcabkings on Trump’s Venezuela Misadventure is Much More Dangerous than Illegally Taking a Country’s Leader or Oil7 January 2026
I think that if there is one action by Trump in his current, "Nobody can stop us.", mood that can…
lobotero on Trump’s Venezuela Misadventure is Much More Dangerous than Illegally Taking a Country’s Leader or Oil7 January 2026
Jack....this will enrich Donny and family in one way or another. chuq