Films:

Texas - Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem

00 Schneider jagt Nihil Baxter

Praxis Dr. Hasenbein

No, no and no. I just have no desire, and I find my life so much easier without them. I have nieces and nephews and children of friends who I love and am happy to engage with, but also happy that I am not responsible for them.

I don’t know if this is just boomers. I remember a person my age in Uni some years ago who just sat there with her freaking iPhone not silent, end every few minutes a message came with a loud “DING!”

I think you have some misconceptions about psychology in general. E.G. you name Stanford Prison, and then explain that it has not been replicated. The act of trying (and failing) to replicate those results is psychological research, and then you reference this research as argument against psychology. Also, you seem to suggest like psychology is deterministic (A happens to someone, so they react in way B), while it is a probabilistic science (if A happens to someone, the chance that they will react in way B increases by X% to Y% with a probability of 95%).

One comment on your example: The prisoner’s dilemma (the way I know it) is not a psychological, but a game theoretical concept and is usually applied with the assumption of rational actors a one-shot interaction, which means that it doesn’t apply to your situation with your friend.

In general, it seems that your disdain for psychology stems from laypersons’ broad and biased understanding of psychological concepts.

Disclaimer: I am not a psychologist.

Do you work at the Carnival?

I lived in New York! (Not really though, just quoting Britta from Community - in the first comment, too)

Baggel for Bagel.