David Buss (academic contributions of)
Priority request: An expert on human mate selection, Jordan Peterson likes him. "American evolutionary psychologist ... he is considered one of the founders of evolutionary psychology." - Wikipedia
Psychology
desensitization (psychology)
Desensitization in a psychology setting addresses inappropriate or otherwise unworkable emotional responses.
attachment theory
"a psychological and evolutionary framework concerning the relationships between humans, particularly the importance of early bonds between infants and their primary caregivers" -- wikipedia.
The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel
"Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people." Priority request.
Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health
Priority request: "With over 22,000,000 copies sold in 50 languages, and used in more than 176 nations, Dianetics brings dramatic and permanent improvement to people all over the world" -- amazon.
parentification
"Parentification or parent–child role reversal is the process of role reversal whereby a child or adolescent is obliged to support the family system in ways that are developmentally inappropriate and overly burdensome" -- wikipedia.
"What the thinker thinks, the prover proves"
"This idea is based on the fact that our senses filter what we see, hear, and taste based on our thinking. This can make illusions seem more believable, but they are still illusions, and are just thought, not reality" -- thefertilemind.net.
highly sensitive person (HSP) concept
"Highly sensitive people are thought to make up roughly 20% of the general population... The term highly sensitive person was first coined by psychologists Elaine Aron and Arthur Aron in the mid-1990s" -- verywellmind.
believing "the grass is always greener on the other side"
Priority request: Is it based on fear? "Used to say that the things a person does not have always seem more appealing than the things he or she does have." - merriam-webster.
Carl Jung
Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies -- wikipedia.
gambling addiction
Priority request: Something I struggle with. Maybe people here have friends and family members who also struggle, and thus this could bring understanding to the problem.
to miss someone
to notice or feel the loss or absence of someone.
gaslighting
The activity of manipulative historical revisionism.
pathological liar
“A person who lies compulsively usually for no external gain or benefit and often with detrimental consequences” — Merriam Webster.
psychosis
"Psychosis is a mental state that can make it difficult to tell what is real and what is not" - Google AI.