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Dispute at Psychology
There's been a dispute at Psychology for a while. It looks basically like it's the depressingly familiar dispute over whether Industrial and organizational psychology is more important than Occupational health psychology. It is currently at Dispute resolution noticeboard.

I think it would be helpful if a couple of active editors would keep an eye on all of the related articles, possibly for years to come. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:03, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
 * As one of the disputants, I agree with user:WhatamIdoing that it would be helpful for experienced WP editors to keep an eye on the page. I, however, make one correction to the above. I do not claim that occupational health psychology is more important than industrial/organizational psychology. I/o psychology is more important in the some areas, such as employee selection, job analysis, leadership, performance appraisal, etc. Occupational health psychology has little to say about those subjects. Occupational health psychology is more important in the area of research on the impact of work (and unemployment) on the health of well-being of workers and interventions to improve working conditions.
 * I add this. OHP was founded because psychologists had been conducting too little research on the impact of psychosocial working conditions on worker health. This was true in both health psychology (where much valuable research had been devoted to preventing illness, helping people to stop smoking and drinking excessively, etc. but not on the work-health interface) and i/o psychology. That has been the context in which OHP emerged in the latter half of the 1980s and the early 1990s. Iss246 (talk) 11:45, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
 * But Psyc12 showed you the reliable sources Iss246 that throughout Europe industrial and organizational psychologists have been involved in worker wellbeing, welfare and job satisfaction since the beginning of last century. That is not a remarkable fact. There are literally millions of psychology students and psychologists globally who know this fact too. Also the core of the dispute for me is that Lillian Gilbreth who was a pioneering female psychologist is being prevented from being included in the article. Including a sentence to reflect her work over a 50 year career with sources to back it up seems logical. Over the years writers of psychology's history omit these female pioneering psychologists. Brokenrecordsagain (talk) 22:52, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes. Psyc12 showed evidence that Mayer had a research interest in work and health. So I changed my mind a little about i/o psychology. But the evidence regarding Gilbreth does not demonstrate sufficient interest in work and health. The work of Gilbreth or Myers does not change the fact that industrial psychology was largely concerned with helping management. Even industrial psychologists' interest in rest periods in munitions plants during World War I was highly motivated by concerns for productivity. As admirable as Arthur Kornhauser was, he was a lonely figure in i/o psychology with most i/o psychology on the side of helping management. Worker health was far from the forefront of i/o psychology ([see https://paulspector.com/what-is-occupational-health-psychology/]). Also see Koppes Bryan and Vinchur who, in a 50-page history of i/o psychology, showed that i/o manifested a great deal of interest in important topics such as selection, testing, productivity, training, team relationships, leadership, task analysis, performance appraisal, and organizational culture; the chapter barely contained two sentences on job stress and health. Iss246 (talk) 12:15, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * The section we are talking about "Health, well-being, and social change" also includes worker "wellbeing" which is separate to health. Why are you focused just on health Iss246? And you did not address the fact that we need to look at things from a worldwide frame not just in the USA. Lillian Gilbreth's entire career as an industrial psychologist was devoted to worker happiness, job satisfaction, welfare and wellbeing. I have included seven reliable sources. I am okay with leaving a source or two out. https://www.apadivisions.org/division-35/about/heritage/lilian-gilbreth-biography The Sullivan source supports the inclusion too. Sullivan, S.E., (1995). Management’s unsung theorist: An examination of the works of Lillian M Gilbreth. Biography 18(1), pp. 31-41. Brokenrecordsagain (talk) 01:17, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

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Reliability of North American Journal of Psychology
I've come across North American Journal of Psychology (NAJP) a number of times in my travels on WP. I've always been stumped on whether or not it's actually reliable enough to be used on Wikipedia - to the point where I've dug into it a bit. I also asked about NAJP at WT:CITEWATCH, because I figured that they would have the most experience in what is and isn't a questionable journal practise (they said it's borderline so to ask for further opinions). I'm particularly concerned about the editors' habit of publishing their own papers, and them actively encouraging papers that other journals won't accept. Hopefully other people have more experience with the journal, or can just give an opinion on their assessment of the journal. If anyone else finds other evidence either way, feel free to add it to the lists, just please sign your addition so people can tell what was always here and what was added later.

Here are the relevant points, as I see it (most of this is copied from my post at CiteWatch). --Xurizuri (talk) 01:29, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Potentially bad signs:
 * Editorial policy makes it pretty clear that they'll accept papers that many reliable journals wouldn't This is up to and including them saying that they are seeking papers on "Topics that are 'unpopular' in other journals".
 * I checked the issues they've released over 2021 and 2020, and the journal's editor, McCutcheon, has published at least one article in every issue. And they're not even editorials, they're research articles. In every issue at least one other member of their advisory/consulting editors has also published a research article.
 * I'd normally assume it's fine, but because (as far as I can tell) there's a habit of publishing their "inner circle's" papers, it seems worth mentioning that there are a handful of other perennial authors, e.g. Clark and Ready.
 * They advise people to add other authors onto their paper in order to reduce cost of application. It seems really weird to me to advise that authors give credit to people who weren't involved for the sake of authors saving money.
 * The publisher of the NAJP is NAJP.
 * Bad impact factor and SCImago ranking, with no improvement over time.
 * As far as I've seen, the articles don't have DOIs. Potentially relatedly, they encourage authors to upload their articles to ResearchGate, etc, with an implication that getting the research accessible to people is the responsibility of the author.
 * They publish papers that have very major methodological and theoretical flaws. For example - an article where part of the justification is The Secret, and the study picks out and compared 2 individual questions from a questionnaire (NOT how a questionnaire should be analysed), with no justification as to why they picked those specific questions.

Potentially good signs:
 * Indexed in PsycNET
 * Indexed in Scopus (39th percentile for sociology and pol sci, 29th for education, 18th for developmental/education psych, 17th for general psych - for anyone not familiar with percentiles, its basically the percentage of other journals that they're considered "better" than)
 * There are well-known psychologists on their board, e.g. Philip Zimbardo

AfD: Animals in LGBT culture

 * Articles for deletion/Animals in LGBT culture

--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:16, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Looking for peer review of Paul Goodman, co-founder of gestalt therapy
Hi all, I'm looking for peer reviews of our article on the American public intellectual Paul Goodman, a co-founder of gestalt therapy, before the article goes to FAC, if anyone would be so inclined: Peer review/Paul Goodman/archive1. No prior experience necessary—just want to know how it reads for a general audience, given that the content gets a bit obtuse. czar 19:15, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Oliver James (psychologist)
The article-subject (presumably) turned up at the Teahouse, Teahouse. He is not too happy with the article, and it it does focus on the negative, if rightly so I can't say. If someone interested and knowledgeable wants to take a look, it couldn't hurt. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:04, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Discussion on talk:Manipulation (psychology)
A month-long ongoing discussion about the structure and style of the Manipulation article (and I think by extension, also other psychology-related behavior articles) has been taking place between myself and user:wiki-psyc on Talk:Manipulation_(psychology). More opinions and perspectives would be much appreciated. Darcyisverycute (talk) 23:39, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Proposed merge at Talk:Sexual orientation change efforts
I have proposed merging the article Sexual orientation change efforts, an article of interest to this WikiProject, into Conversion therapy.

You are invited join the discussion at. Regards, RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk · contribs) 17:30, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

A discrepancy in the article for "Identification with the Aggressor"
I recently stumbled upon a minor discrepancy in the article for "Identification with the Aggressor" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_with_the_Aggressor ) with the biometric data of Sándor Ferenczi, which I can neither explain nor correct. According to the article, Ferenczi "[...] further elaborated this work until he published it in 1949 [...]", although he died in 1933. The date of publication seems to be in order, but I can't find any information regarding who might have undertaken this process for him. I doubt, he continued his work from the grave. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Accurationer (talk) 13:39, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Including Millon's subtypes
Should Millon's subtypes be included in articles on personality disorders? I would appreciate any feedback from other editors on this idea at Talk:Personality disorder Darcyisverycute (talk) 08:39, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Motivational Interviewing
Hello there, I am a MINT member (Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers).

I was perusing the Motivational Interviewing article on wikipedia and saw that the limitations are incredibly inaccurate. Really just downright wrong / false. I would like to delete the limitations, but am concerned that my account would be flagged as attempting to do some sabotage, when in actuality i'm an expert in Motivational Interviewing and these limitations need to be corrected.

For example:

Pre-contemplation limitation - I already edited this one, to make it less inaccurate - adding in the proper approach to be used when someone is in a pre-contemplation stage of change. Realistically though, the whole thing should be deleted - and perhaps this should be moved to applications. Evidence exists showing that MI appears to be far more effective than CBT at lower levels of change readiness. This bears out with years of personal experience, and really the entire ethos of what MI is. (i.e. the mi spirit / MI band of emotions involving non-judgment, acceptance)

Motivation limitation - this paragraph is literally just nonsense. Motivational Interviewing is not about our motivation, it is about the client's motivation. This is well known and is written about in 100% of all books on motivational interviewing. Literally any single book published by Guilford Press on Motivational Interviewing (which is most of them) talks about this. I mean this paragraph is so inaccurate its like saying my cell phone is a tree.

Therapist client / trust limitation. Once again this is not a limitation of MI, it is a strength of MI. MI builds trust incredibly rapidly. Not building trust - effectively means your not doing MI. For example, look at the Trust Equation. Trust = (Credibility + Reliability + Intimacy)/Self-orientation. In an MI interaction we are completely other focused, feeling curious, actively listening, and reflecting back the thoughts, feelings, insights, and motivations of our conversation partner. MI is not limited by trust - MI is quite literally one of, if not the best, interpersonal styles to rapidly build trust. This isn't a limitation, it is a massive massive strength. Also later on it says "confrontational processes by therapists will inhibit the process". This statement is true - it will inhibit the process because ***confrontation is not Motivational Interviewing***. For proof on this just look up the MITI Code 4.2.1, Confrontation, coded as a "C", often referred to as an MINA behaviour standing for Motivational Interviewing Non-Adherent behaviour. In other words if we confront someone, we are not doing Motivational Interviewing. To summarize the point, confrontation means you are not doing MI, which means that confrontation can't be a limitation of MI. As a teacher of MI, I help people to find and remove their need to confront.

So what am I looking for? I guess I'm looking for permission to remove false information. I also would value guidance on if/how I justify my edits to demonstrate their importance / accuracy. Enviromentum (talk) 18:21, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for posting here and asking. Wherever possible it's best to WP:PRESERVE content as you mention. That article is quite long, and at a glance it seems the citations there are almost all over ten years old. I left a template on your talk page which has all of the important policies when it comes to editing. With regards to deleting content try to keep what you can if it is verifiable by sources. For anything that seems false, it's better to give editors a chance to respond, such as by adding inline or section templates to flag specific individual issues with aspects of the article. (see WP:TC) For content that you want to add, one of the most important things to do is ensuring content you add is WP:V-erifiable with inline citations to support the claims. WP:EXPERT may also be of help to you for the writing style that Wikipedia prefers over research material.


 * I imagine as an expert in the field you would already know, but I would point to this citation as a starting point for updating and correcting claims made in the article: Review articles, where available, are the preferred reliable source for medical articles including psychology. You don't need permission to edit on Wikipedia, but keep in mind that even good-faith edits can get reverted and this is a normal part of the Wikipedia WP:CYCLE.


 * Repeating what other people have said and trying to be specific. The ideal solution (though one requiring lots of work) would be someone replacing the incorrect sentences with more up-to-date ones from a recent systematic review that cover the same material. As to whether the OP has time to do this is another matter, but perhaps other people are motivated to help? I'd just throw out that for good or ill wikipedia outsources its expertise to academic literature wielded by amateurs (and everyone is assumed to be an amateur). The way to win against these amateur-savages is with a recent systmatic review or equivalent source Talpedia (talk) 08:38, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Alcohol abuse/use disorder
The discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents may interest some editors here. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:33, 6 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for posting here, I commented on it - my first time posting on ANI. Hope it helps Darcyisverycute (talk) 08:46, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Donald Templer
I'm wondering if Donald Templer meets notability criteria for a stand-alone article. I don't know much about psychology, but it seems the single most prominent thing he's known for is the death anxiety scale, which might simply merit a mention and elaboration at Death anxiety (and thus Templer might redirect there). His appearance and speech at an American Renaissance conference drew brief mention by Robert Sussman (excerpted from his book in a Salon.com article), but the mentions of Templer in that are heavily based on a member and attendant at the conference, who may not be a reliable source. I've found no reviews or significant coverage of his book Is Size Important?, although he verifiably went on the Howard Stern show. He gets a passing mention in a Scientific American article. and a Psychology Today column, and has had a controversial article retracted, but on the whole I don't see significant coverage necessitating an article: if he or his work is to be mentioned in other articles (be they death anxiety or race and intelligence related), he could simply be identified in text as "psychologist at Alliant International University" without a wikilink. I don't want to minimize his controversial views, but also don't want to artificially elevate them for the mere purpose of "naming and shaming" or "calling out" racism. Does anyone feel a merger, or deletion is warranted? Or is there sufficient secondary material that can expand the article while maintaining core content policies and WP:BLP? Note: Templer was until recently described as deceased on Wikipedia, although no reliable source has been provided, so he should be considered living until reliably demonstrated otherwise. --Animalparty! (talk) 18:32, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Intelligence in plants ( Intelligence ) is pseudoscience or mislabeling and should be removed.
Our article Intelligence has a section on intelligence in plants - Intelligence.

This is pseudoscience or mislabeling and should be removed.

- 2804:14D:5C59:8693:3D7F:4056:46AB:658D (talk) 00:38, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Fantasy / Phantasy
My understanding is that the term/spelling "phantasy" is used with a specialized meaning in psychological theory.

We don't seem to have anything on Wikipedia that discusses this clearly.

Our article Fantasy (psychology) uses both spellings, more or less indiscriminately. Someone posted a comment about this on the article's Talk page back in 2010. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fantasy_(psychology)#F/Phantasy ].

We should have something somewhere that explains and clarifies this.

- 2804:14D:5C59:8693:B9DE:451B:EA95:CE48 (talk) 17:12, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Rapid-onset gender dysphoria controversy has an RFC
Rapid-onset gender dysphoria controversy has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Nil Einne (talk) 11:03, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Repressed memory: "Largely discredited" or not?
See the last edits of article and Talk page. I posted this on WP:FTN, and someone suggested (in a way that did not sound a lot like WP:AGF) that this could be a better place. --Hob Gadling (talk) 06:54, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Now expanded to False memory syndrome and False Memory Syndrome Foundation, the same user is playing the "false memory is an idea by pedophiles" card. It is not surprising that the claim "this is only about repressed memory, not about recovered memory therapy" was just temporary. --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:34, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Would you be willing to refrain from ad hominem attacks on another editor? Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) [he/him] 16:45, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I had bad experiences with POV warriors in those articles, and there have been red flags pointing to a familiar pattern of editing in that area, such as expanding Underwager's role. If that turns out to be a false alarm, then fine. --Hob Gadling (talk) 17:35, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Does not look like a false alarm to me. Already whitewashing the status of recovered-memory therapy and its methods with "critics say". --Hob Gadling (talk) 07:00, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Related subject and article: can it be therapist-induced or not? New editor says no but got reverted. Talk page has a section about it. --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:47, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Multiplicity (psychology)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Multiplicity (psychology) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 06:07, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Evaluating article
This article focuses on the lack of sleep associated with higher education. Even with the start of high school many adolescents face the cracking pressure of difficult education systems and spend nights studying, staying up late socializing, or just normal sleep irregularities which is actually crucial to not just their mental state but physical well being. On average a person should get at least 6 hours of sleep a night, but like this article mentioned especially in college most kids either a have extremely difficult course loads but also want to balance a social life and that leaves little time for sleeping which is actually what recovers our bodies. So it is quite counterproductive to spend so much time studying when you're not going to be able to retain it if you don't give your body recovery time which most would use either caffeine or energy drinks for this which just contributes to this constant unhealthy life cycle. This article honestly gives an excellent viewpoint it not only acknowledges the issue being faced but offers resolutions and as simple as it may seem it's hard to stick to. Angelinasutton (talk) 17:32, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
 * You don't say which article this relates to. I advise you to 1) place your review on the Talk page of that article, not here; 2) argue not from your own experience, or that of people you know, but from published knowledge from books and research papers. Talk pages aren't forums for our own personal opinions on the topic; they are where we can assess whether the article is a fair summary of its sources, whether those sources are the right kind and whether there are enough of them. Have there been studies into the effects of a restricted sleep cycle, or of the damaging effects of caffeine drinks on sleep? Are they summarised adequately in the relevant article? Is there anything that could be added? If you recommend changes to an article, but want other perspectives on those proposed changes, then it's okay to come back here and ask. MartinPoulter (talk) 17:56, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Self-esteem vs. Self-worth
Need your thoughts on whether these topics should be split articles, at Talk:Self-esteem AngusW🐶🐶F  ( bark  •  sniff ) 19:35, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Disambiguation of links to Interaction
Could you help to disambiguate some of the links to Interaction? This list shows the 200+ articles with links to the disambiguation page. It would help readers to link to a more specific article. Some are psychology related and others biology, physics, mathmatics or other sciences. Any help with sorting these out would be appreciated.&mdash; Rod talk 12:45, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Merge
Hi. Psychology is not something I have in-depth expertise in, so I wanted to ask: is the merge proposed at Talk:Emotional safety a good thing and are these subjects really the same thing? PhotographyEdits (talk) 09:30, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Mini–Mental State Examination
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Mini–Mental State Examination that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. &mdash; Mdaniels5757 (talk &bull; contribs) 14:46, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act Featured article review
I have nominated Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  17:14, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Human behavior
I'm in the process of expanding Human behavior. Given its scope, I think the article could benefit from feedback on where information needs to be expanded and what major omissions there might be. If anyone wanted to look at it and give their thoughts, I'd really appreciate it! Thebiguglyalien (talk) 02:37, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
See Village pump (proposals). This proposes support for quality assessment at the article level, recorded in WikiProject banner shell, and inherited by the wikiproject banners. However, wikiprojects that prefer to use custom approaches to quality assessment can continue to do so. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:52, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Applied Behavioral Analysis - Assistance requested
Hello! I have decided to come here after a DRN to resolve issues related to the Applied Behavioral Analysis page was not fruitful. There was a lack of activity and thus it was closed. To summarize, there were points of contention related to the lead of the article, what was undue and not, and if the article ever breached Wikipedia’s guidelines on neutrality. There have been concerns raised in the past that the article was overly slanted against ABA, and new concerns on the talk page include things such as the usage of non-scientific blogs for stating the “views of the autistic community,” whether an inclusion of a list of applications of ABA outside of autism therapy was appropriate, as well as whether there is a weak foundation to say that there is significant controversy over ABA outside the autism rights movement. I will provide several links that can help show the discourse surrounding the article, which I know has been very infamously contentious among users!

DRN page (closed): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Applied_behavior_analysis

ABA talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Applied_behavior_analysis#

Project Med discussion on the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Applied_behavior_analysis_-_assistance_requested

Any assistance and feedback would be appreciated! Barbarbarty (talk) 21:03, 1 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Just to add to Barbarbarty's request for help, while it's certainly true that there have been concerns raised in the past that the article was overly slanted against ABA, there have also persistently been concerns raised that the article was overly slanted towards ABA. So that's relevant context for anyone looking into this!
 * ABA is part of behaviorism, which viewers of this page are likely to be aware has attracted a great deal of controversy among psychologists (among others), for some decades, for a range of reasons.
 * For me, a lot of the most interesting and important questions in an article like this are around epistemic injustice: who gets to have their voices heard, about what. As B says, I have once or twice cited 'non-scientific blogs for stating the “views of the autistic community”' (although in fact, the only actual blog I think I've shared personally has been evidence-based, substantial and taken pains to lay out its methodology). I stand by the importance of including 'non-scientific' sources, because many of the questions at stake are not strictly scientific. I believe that an encyclopaedia has a responsibility to report something of the views of a population, about what is being done to it. I often wonder how Wikipedia would have dealt with homosexuality in the era when it was still listed in the DSM.
 * Anyway, as Barbarbarty says, assistance and feedback would be appreciated! Thanks folks. Oolong (talk) 08:28, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Polyvagal theory
There is an ongoing discussion about the Criticism section of Polyvagal Theory. The discussion is here: Talk:Polyvagal theory. This discussion needs editors who can take the time to read the approximately 10 academic journal articles that have been cited. The issue is whether 95% of the section represents original research on violation of WP:NOR or not. Reading academic articles to confirm the absence of criticism about a topic is a bit challenging, admittedly, which is why I think members of this project might be well-equipped for the task. Ian Oelsner (talk) 22:44, 25 January 2023 (UTC)


 * For anyone interested, the discussion is continuing here: Talk:Polyvagal theory#Consolidation of Criticism section to reflect reliable sources and remove original research. Oleasylvestris (talk) 07:33, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

working on AEDP psychotherapy article
Hi I have been working on the aedp article for a few years. It was published 2020 but was recently taken down and the title redirected to Diana Fosha, the developer. The article can be accessed in my user page: carrieruggieri. Could someone please help me address the issues which I cannot seem to correct: weasel words, writing that seems promotional. other than that, the content is all there - definitions, historical influences, some details that tie into the overarching theory, description of how theory informs technique. In terms of jargon, it's as jargon free as I could manage. There are 60 references, I have read them all and each statement is supported with 2cd and 3rd party references for neutrality. The topic has been deemed notable. It is a matter of presentation. I think anyone other than me can easily figure out how to revise. Carrieruggieri (talk) 16:51, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
 * For reference, the draft this user is talking about is at User:Carrieruggieri/Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy. MartinPoulter (talk) 18:05, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
 * A missing item, how this behavior is manifest to associate people! 2601:601:4002:67A0:598E:831C:71A2:1B51 (talk) 00:37, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

I will look at it. Dawkin Verbier (talk) 22:39, 7 December 2022 (UTC)


 * thank you.  Carrieruggieri (talk) 17:56, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at Blanchard&
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Blanchard's transsexualism typology, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. An editor has proposed recreating the autogynephilia article, by splitting the relevant content from Blanchard's typology. Sideswipe9th (talk) 19:36, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

EMDR at Fringe Theory Noticeboard
A discussion is happening at WP:FTN that followers of this noticeboard may want to participate in. Loki (talk) 04:22, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

RFC at EMDR
I've just made an RFC on the scientific status of EMDR, which I believe followers of this noticeboard might be interested in. Loki (talk) 19:01, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Merger proposal discussion
Formal request has been received to merge: Sleep Deprivation Therapy into Wake therapy dated: March 2023. Proposer's Rationale: ''This is the same subject worded differently. ''. Discuss >>>here<<<. Pleas join discussion as there may be some FRINGEY elements to these articles. Thanks, GenQuest  "scribble" 16:00, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:59, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

FAR for Conatus
I have nominated Conatus for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. &#32;- car chasm (talk) 14:50, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Incel Merge discussion
Hello, per point 3 of WP:PM, I am notifying this project of the merge discussion at Talk:Incel. This is based on a just recently closed AfD (see page of incels.is). The AfD closed with a consensus to merge, but since that consensus, I have increased the incels.is a lot in sourcing and content though, so a merge may now not be necessary. 2001:48F8:3004:FC4:48EA:35CE:A536:B342 (talk) 20:35, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Sandbox article for action tendency
I am currently composing a draft article for the concept of action tendency, a component of emotion which influences behavior. I am not a psychologist, so I could use some assistance with any formatting, fact-checking, and research synthesis pertinent to the standards of the discipline.

I came across the topic during my graduate studies and felt that further exposition was important to the analysis of various political and social issues, especially as the emotional component has historically been eschewed from the rather quantitative lens of rational choice theory and related explanations for social behavior. Doughbo (talk) 00:55, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

IQ problems
I'd appreciate it if other editors would take a look at Talk:Adragon De Mello, where an editor has been suggesting some IMO inappropriate sources to substantiate the claim of an off-the-charts IQ. WhatamIdoing (talk) 10:37, 2 July 2023 (UTC)


 * An IQ of 400? I think that claim can't be substantiated with any RS and should just be removed. Dawkin Verbier (talk) 06:24, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I think it was a case of hopeful incompetence – my four year old did something that a normal 16 year old can do; therefore he has four times the average intelligence, which must be an IQ of 400 – but it was the basis for shopping the kid to the media outlets, so it probably needs to be mentioned. I just think it needs to be mentioned as what his father claimed, rather than having any basis in reality. WhatamIdoing (talk) 10:28, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Peer review for Elisabeth Geleerd
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Witchcraft: Requested move
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Draft:Family Systems Theory
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Request for Comment on Polyvagal theory Talk page
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Paul Spector
I'm involved in some editing disagreement about the same user persistently re-inserting the personal website of https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/psychology/people/pspector.aspx I don't know a whole lot on this subject. Is he a truly distinguished prominent figure in the field of psychology or is he nothing special? I looked him up on Google Scholars and I do see him cited 12541 times. Graywalls (talk) 23:31, 16 August 2023 (UTC) - Clarification: the personal website in question is paulspector.com not the edu site. I provided the .edu site to identify the owner of the site. Graywalls (talk) 19:53, 19 August 2023 (UTC)


 * If you look him up on Google.Scholar you will see that his work has been cited more than 109,000 times. If you click the name of his university in his profile, he appears as the most cited person at his university. In a Google search I came across this article by Anne-Wil Harzing who ranks him as 7th among the most influential academics in the field of Business & Management. I also found him in the Amazon bookstore. The links you are deleting are to lists of assessments, organized by topic that are linked to peer reviewed journal articles that are reliable sources. For example, the leadership category first entry is Abusive supervision by Tepper. Click the link and it takes you to Tepper's ResearchGate profile with a button to download the article about the assessment. This website is a useful research tool for people looking for measures.Psyc12 (talk) 11:25, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * It also happens that within the span of articles I have checked, the initial insertion of "Spector, PE" and his website have been from you, or Iss246. Do you have any personal or professional relationship with Paul Spector? Graywalls (talk) 21:57, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * , are you related to Psyc12 Spector in anyway or known him in real life? Graywalls (talk) 04:44, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * For context, what page are you editing? I googled Paul Spector and he certainly appears to be fairly prominent. I did some editing on the Roberto Burioni page and included information from his university bio so I don't think there's an issue there per se, however, as the Paul Spector page currently doesn't exist, I'd like to see the page being edited before commenting further one way of the other. Cheers! 𝄞: JohnnyB𝄬   𝅘𝅥𝅮 Sing with me𝅘𝅥𝅮   09:30, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you JohnnyBflat. I have been trying to communicate that fact to Graywalls for a few days now. Iss246 (talk) 14:11, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I also replaced Spector's nonworking link on the occupational health psychology page with a working link. He probably changed providers. Iss246 (talk) 14:11, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

, I initially came across a psychology related page in which it included a link to an author's personal website, which I felt wasn't a great source. When I started doing some digging around, I noticed two users were responsible for essentially all of of insertion of paulspector.com into all/essentially all the articles where that site is included. Within one of the subpages in Paul's off-wiki site, I noticed "Dedicated to Steven Eric Spector who taught me about blogging, content marketing, SEO, and Wordpress." on bottom of one of the pages. When I say I don't know a whole lot, I meant it in context of, is Spector's presence in the psychology field truly "world renowned" and such like Stephen Hawking to cosmology and Eistein to math? or is Spector respected, but just an academic within the field? Graywalls (talk) 14:44, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

. Notifying recent participant on spector concerns in different pages. Graywalls (talk) 14:51, 18 August 2023 (UTC)


 * When user:Graywalls says he/she does not know a lot, it is clear that he/she is not informed about IO psychology. Now Graywalls wants to take back what he/she wrote about not knowing a lot about the field once Graywalls put his/her foot in his/her mouth. Now Graywalls wants to compare Spector to Stephen Hawking as a way to evaluate a contemporary scholar/researcher. Of course, comparing any WP editor to Stephen Hawking (or Einstein) will show that the editor comes up short. Perhaps we should compare Graywalls to Stephen Hawking and Einstein! Why not compare Spector to his contemporaries in the field. The specious comparison to Stephen Hawking shows that Graywalls is editing in bad faith. Iss246 (talk) 15:33, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * It seems to me that these links are giving undue emphasis to a single (very well-cited) scholar and the assessments that that scholar developed. At least for the psychological testing page, the other links are to general repositories of assessments--not those of a single scholar. ParticipantObserver (talk) 19:14, 18 August 2023 (UTC)


 * The Spector website contains a general repository of assessments with links to the work of many people. The site has a section with his assessments that are frequently used by researchers as you can see if you do a Googlescholar search for them. For example, a search of "work locus of control scale meta" finds this article in a top tier journal that summarizes results from dozens of studies using this assessment.Psyc12 (talk) 20:43, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * , what is your personal or professional relationship to Spector, if any? Graywalls (talk) 20:46, 18 August 2023 (UTC)


 * The caveat is that it's a page where Spector's tests can be purchased for commercial use as well as links to purchase his books within the landing page. Inside Spector's page at https://paulspector.com/category/marketing/, that's where you'll see Dedicated to Steven Eric Spector who taught me about blogging, content marketing, SEO, and Wordpress. which makes me wonder... The insertion of Stevenericspector.com into articles too has been the work of one editor. Graywalls (talk) 19:22, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. This discussion was getting scattered around, and I appreciate the consolidation onto a single page. ParticipantObserver (talk) 19:15, 18 August 2023 (UTC)


 * As I noted Spector's webpages are valuable because they are helpful and accessible to readers. Some measures may be commercial but most are not. The website is not deficient if it includes a few commercially available measures. Occasionally a researcher will find that a commercially available measure (e.g., the Beck Depression Inventory) will be helpful if the measure has high validity and is not a dud. But most of the measures on the website are free of charge. Sometimes a creator of a freely available instrument will ask user to let the instrument's creator know that he/she is using it--a minor cost. None of the measures Spector and his colleagues created are commercially available measures and are available at no charge. Picking on this website is a waste of time. Iss246 (talk) 21:02, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

I think “world renowned” in any field would be setting the bar a little too high in regard to vetting sources for Wikipedia. I’ve taken a little time to dig into Paul Spector, and from what I have found so far, he is a well-known and respected academic in his field. He received his PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology in 1975, has authored several hundred papers in that field, and according to Google Scholar has been cited almost 110,000 times. Research.com [] rates him as number 188 on their list of Best Psychology Scientists in the world. That’s no small thing. I haven’t found anything pseudosciencey or fringe about him. He seems pretty legit to me, and I would have no problems using him as a Subject-matter expert on related pages.

Regarding Dedicated to Steven Eric Spector who taught me about blogging, content marketing, SEO, and Wordpress. (which is at the bottom of every page, not just the marketing one), it looks to me like Steven is Paul’s son and that he helped his dad set up his site, hence the dedication. Academics may be experts in their field but can often be helpless when it comes to technology. Steven’s “About” page discusses his expertise with computers. I may be wrong but that’s how it looks to me.

Looking at the Paul Spector website: Graywalls, I get where you’re coming from regarding the possibility of this page being used to sell his books and tests. There is an appearance of marketing and thus I don’t think your request about editor’s relationships with Paul Spector is unreasonable, in case of a potential conflict of interest. I would note, however, that psychologists selling their tests is quite common in that field. I recently finished an internship with my university’s psychology clinic and very, very few of the assessments we used were free, so I don't believe that the Paul Spector site should be disqualified as a source for that reason.

Also, only a few of the links on the Paul Spector site are to Paul Spector’s products. Most of them are to assessments off-site by other psychologists. This is also true of the “Mental Health Assessments” page on the Steven Eric Spector site.

For these reasons, in my opinion, both pages are acceptable for inclusion under “Sources of psychological tests” on the Psychological testing page.

Graywalls, one last thing I’d like to note (and I’m sure you didn’t intend it this way), is that your sentence "Inside Spector's page at https://paulspector.com/category/marketing/, that's where you'll see Dedicated to Steven Eric Spector who taught me about blogging, content marketing, SEO, and Wordpress.. which makes me wonder..." read to me like it was a page marketing Paul Spector’s products. It’s actually a page of blog articles he’s written about marketing in relation to I/O psychology. I just wanted to make sure that was clear to other editors who might have mistaken it as I did. Cheers! 𝄞: JohnnyB𝄬  𝅘𝅥𝅮 Sing with me𝅘𝅥𝅮   16:12, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * At this point I don't wish to voice an opinion one way or another about how appropriate it is to link Spector's website, but I would like to try to clarify a couple of points. If we're talking about Spector's website, I don't think it's the one linked in the OP by, which is a link to Spector's page for his academic position at USF (although I don't mean to speak for Graywalls, and they can correct me if needed). I think the website in question is his personal website: https://paulspector.com/. My second point of clarification is, I don't think a major issue here is whether a psychologist can or should sell tests he/she develops (and that may not have been 's intention). If that was a problem, no one would have ever heard of David Wechsler. Obviously psychologists are perfectly entitled to sell their tests. I think the issue is whether excessive linking to the psychologist's website is spamming, especially if it might be the psychologist himself who is doing the linking. Again, I only attempt to clarify, not argue the issue one way or another. If others feel that I have misinterpreted something, I would appreciate your comments. Thanks. Sundayclose (talk) 17:12, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Just some more on background. in all of these articles where paulspector.com exist, initial insertions everywhere were done by Psyc12 or Iss246. We can also see Psyc12 does not answer their relationship to Spector in this discussion here. Finally, there's the discussion User_talk:Iss246. When these are all put together, I see strong WP:COI concerns. What initially drew me to this was the presence of "paulspector.com" in an article somewhere and it caught my attention. I started to investigate where else it is found. I connected the "paulspector.com" insertion to just two users. I asked here, because I wasn't sure if his creds were completely blown out of proportion.
 * So it seems to be cleared up he's legit. However, issues around apparent self- advocacy are WP:COI concerns. We respect sources like New York Times, but imagine one of their journalist shoehorning articles they've written into everywhere they can contextually slip their article into. If such insertion happened by uninvolved editor in a natural way, that's not COI/NPOV issue. If it's done by the author/anyone associated with the author, it is. Do you feel there's no COI related editing occurring with regard to Paulspector.com insertion?. You're correct that the quotation you talked about was on Paul's website. I mentioned it, because, finding a place in prose that's relevant to your website and slipping it in as a reference is a common "content marketing" technique to improve Google rank status. Graywalls (talk) 17:41, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * >If such insertion happened by uninvolved editor in a natural way, that's not COI/NPOV issue. If it's done by the author/anyone associated with the author, it is.
 * Contrast your statement with the actual guideline at WP:SELFCITE, which begins with Using material you have written or published is allowed within reason. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:08, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I was only putting in my observation on a sentence about "content marketing" at paulspector.com, which is the URL that has been getting inserted. In case it has caused you confusions, I am going to make it clear that I'm not saying certain user is certain person. Now, to address your comment. The key being "within reason". Something worth checking out is Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard/Archive_196 for a case of otherwise generally credible sources being unnaturally amplified. Graywalls (talk) 05:03, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
 * IMO "within reason" should be considered wrt to the article's needs. One self-citation from an expert could be 100% of their contributions, but could still be perfectly reasonable for the article. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * There is a clear path forward here. From WP:SELFCITE: 'When in doubt, defer to the community's opinion: propose the edit on the article's talk page and allow others to review it.' Iss246 need not insert the text themselves; why not propose it on the talk page instead? ParticipantObserver (talk) 10:42, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Sundayclose, my understanding also is that we’re referring to the personal website, paulspector.com. Regarding excessive linking, I thought we were just talking in the context of the Psychological testing page? However, I see that Graywalls has provided a list of the relevant pages they found, thank you for that, it clears things up a bit. Do you feel there's no COI related editing occurring with regard to Paulspector.com insertion? Graywalls, I’m not saying it’s *not* COI editing, just that it doesn’t *look* like COI editing at first blush. I can certainly see your concerns once you dig down a bit. WhatamIdoing and ParticipantObserver also make good points.


 * So, the main concern seems to be whether or not Psyc12 is, or is related to, Paul Spector. It seems to me that the fastest way to move forward would be for to confirm or deny this relationship disclose a COI if it exists. That would certainly make moving forward a lot easier. Outside of that, ParticipantObserver’s last suggestion works for me. I don’t have a problem with the citations on the Psychological testing page and I’m going to make a presumption that Iss246 would be happy with another editor reinserting them, if consensus goes that way.  𝄞: JohnnyB𝄬   𝅘𝅥𝅮 Sing with me𝅘𝅥𝅮   14:09, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * This is perhaps a minor quibble, but no one is under any obligation to out themself here. Rather, our COI guideline expects editors with a conflict of interest to disclose it. That can be done without exposing the nature of the relationship (e.g. self, student, colleague, spouse, friend, publicist, etc.), and suspected COI editors should not be asked to do otherwise. – bradv  14:31, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * No, you're absolutely right. Thank you for pointing that out.  𝄞: JohnnyB𝄬   𝅘𝅥𝅮 Sing with me𝅘𝅥𝅮   14:53, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't think anyone here expects anyone to out themselves. But it is quite common on Wikipedia for someone to declare a conflict of interest as required by policy, and if Psyc12 has a COI they must declare it. I find it interesting that Psyc12 emerged after 14 months without editing to express an opinion here, and now is nowhere to be found as we are asking whether they have a COI. I'm not pushing one way or another about whether the links to a single website are appropriate, but I am concerned that those links have only been made by two editors. Sundayclose (talk) 14:58, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I have corrected my comment to be more appropriate. 𝄞: JohnnyB𝄬   𝅘𝅥𝅮 Sing with me𝅘𝅥𝅮   15:00, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * bradv, actually per WP:PE if they're a getting paid, then the nature of their relationship MUST be disclosed. So, a publicist would have to reveal that. Graywalls (talk) 15:13, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * No, a paid editor must disclose who is paying them, but they are not required to disclose their own identity. Regardless, that is not what is being alleged here. Frankly, this thread is rapidly approaching harassment, as  has not added any such links to mainspace in nearly two years. As they have now been cautioned, any further alleged COI editing can be dealt with if and when it continues. In the meantime, the articles can be evaluated and cleaned up based on their content, not their contributors. –  bradv  15:28, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I respectfully disagree that there is anything approaching harassment. We are simply discussing whether one of only two editors who has added multiple links to a website might have COI, an editor who has expressed an opinion here after 14 months of not editing. That is all within policy. And the guidelines on COI, by the way, apply for COI even if it is not paid. It is not harassment to ask Psyc12 if they have any COI. That request is often made on Wikipedia. Sundayclose (talk) 15:43, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree with @Bradv. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:14, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

I have no conflict of interest here. I inserted references to what I felt was useful content in the context of particular articles. Others are free to disagree and delete them or replace them with something else. I agree with Bradv that the focus should be on the content and whether citations/links make significant contributions to each article. Where editors disagree, discussion to consensus is the reasonable way forward. I still keep track of what is going on with articles I edited in the past going back to 2013, but I rarely contribute anymore because I got tired of the bickering and personal attacks. Psyc12 (talk) 15:52, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info, . I agree the focus should be on content. I think now that you have responded we can keep that focus. Sundayclose (talk) 16:02, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks everyone. The Spector websites, although they have the "dot com" imprint, are noncommercial. Underlining the abovementioned focus on content, the Spector websites are service websites that help researchers, practitioners, students, and the educated public to learn about and get access to available tests and scales. Each website reminds me of an efficient central switchboard with its organized links. Again, I underline that the websites provide a service and are noncommercial. Iss246 (talk) 18:05, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * That would be a great argument to make on the talk page of the article in question, to try and establish consensus. But there are at least three editors who have disagreed with their inclusion, and per the above discussion you should seek consensus before re-inserting the links. ParticipantObserver (talk) 15:44, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * And when referencing subject area expert's self published contents, I believe such should be a fall back when proper second sources are not available. When other proper sources are available, there's no reason to piggyback paulspector.com Graywalls (talk) 20:43, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Since Self-published does not mean primary, you presumably meant that an expert's self-published content should be cited only as a fallback when non-self-published sources are not available. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:41, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Correct. If another proper source is available, the merit of adding paulspector.com as a second citation, or to add them in further reading is questionable. Graywalls (talk) 10:02, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hmm, if the "proper" source is WP:PAYWALLED, then I think many editors would appreciate a free-to-read source/summary being added as a second citation. Before you started editing, we did that with a parameter called , but the consensus the last few years has been to list them as separate citations. WhatamIdoing (talk) 14:56, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

My positive evaluation of the Spector websites reflects these factors. First, the sites are noncommercial. Second, the sites are run by an individual having great expertise in the field. Third, the websites provide a central location where readers can access a good deal of information in one place. Fourth, I could not find another website that provides as much information in a form that is accessible to professionals in the field and the educated public. Iss246 (talk) 03:15, 28 August 2023 (UTC)


 * that might be a fan POV issue preventing you from seeing it in impartial light. Graywalls (talk) 10:03, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Graywalls, when you have a different objection every time you post, it begins to feel like you're moving the goalposts and throwing out anything in the hope that your personal preference will be implemented, even though there isn't clear support for your own POV. If you are concerned about articles have the "wrong" links, you might want to turn all of that energy towards Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup. WhatamIdoing (talk) 14:59, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * User:Graywalls, I posted my reasons for using the Spector websites. Nowhere did I say that I am a "fan" unless the word fan means that I recognize effective and informative subject-related websites that work for professionals and educated laypeople who use Facebook. If you throw the word fan at me, I suggest that you are trolling me. Iss246 (talk) 15:17, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

self published source Stevenericspector.com
Initial insertion occurred at Special:Diff/1050790405 in 2021, then it got added back most recently in August 2023 in Special:Diff/1171594964 in after I removed it. It looks like paulspector.com (whose author appears to be related to the site in question here based on skimming through both sites) could be permissible in some circumstances per WP:EXPERTSPS, I am not seeing anything citation referring to Stevenericspector.com author as an expert in the field of psychology, or in any discipline for that matter. I can only find blogs and social media type contents on this author and as far as I can tell, they are not above any other personal websites/blogs. Am I missing something? 23:23, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Req for expert assistance at Future Tripping
Future Tripping was recently created. There is a proposal to move it to anticipatory anxiety, which currently redirects to panic attack. Anticipatory anxiety appears to be a symptom of Panic disorder, but is not explicitly mentioned at that article. (will post in a few places) ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 03:11, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Sluggish cognitive tempo
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Self-Assessment Manikin
I started the Self-Assessment Manikin article that recently got approved through AfC. If anyone has any suggestions/information they would like to add, it would be greatly appreciated :) 267 10:42, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Emotional intelligence § Merger proposal
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Article renaming proposal
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Dimensional models of personality disorders may need a revamp
The ICD-11 has adopted a dimensional model of PDs, and the corresponding article seems out of date.

For example, there's a section at the end that references putative changes to the then unpublished DSM5.

I haven't read it all, nor am I sufficiently knowledgeable to review and update the article, I was looking for an introduction to the concepts given their adoption by the ICD. Pygy (talk) 10:38, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Due weight discussion about psychological testing
discussion at Psychological testing Graywalls (talk) 19:56, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Stevenericspector.com link farm in Psychological testing
External_links/Noticeboard requested that someone from psychology topic weigh in, so I am advertising invitation to comment. Graywalls (talk) 02:02, 3 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I don't remember if I had done so or, if I had done so, where I wrote about requesting people "from psychology" to weigh in on the psychological testing encyclopedia entry. I may have but I don't remember&mdash;a lot of messaging on talk pages has taken place. I have a Ph.D. in psychology. My judgment is informed by that training. It is my judgment that the Steven Spector website is a valuable addition to the external links section of the psychological testing entry. However, what is rich about user:Graywalls using me to call for more people with training in psychology to comment is that he has reversed many of my edits of the psychological testing entry although he has admitted that he has little knowledge of the field. Iss246 (talk) 23:09, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't know what you having PhD in psychology is relevant to Wikipedia editing. One's alleged knowledge on the subject area doesn't give them an upper hand or priority. Anything that is placed into Wikipedia should never be based on personal knowledge, but based on what sources say. Graywalls (talk) 08:14, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @Graywalls, I have been agreeing with you a lot lately. I think it is good that we are getting more in sync. Here, I respectfully disagree. I think having a PhD is can be a little bit helpful to a WP editor because the training in research methodology, statistics, and sources and their content can help an editor understand and write about the most solid products of research as well as identify questionable text. Please bear in mind, I am not saying that having a PhD makes you perfect. Just that the training can be somewhat helpful at times. Iss246 (talk) 16:04, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Have you read this advise for subject matter expert? If you have not read it. While this is only an essay rather than a guideline, it is linked from WP:V guideline. Graywalls (talk) 01:54, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @Graywalls, I am with you regarding adhering to the principles in WP:EX. Indeed, a PhD does not make someone perfect--I said as much. Of course, not having a PhD does not make someone an expert either. But I am sorry to say that your response to my complaint about your neglecting to place the citation needed tag on the interest inventories section of the psychological testing article is deficient. Iss246 (talk) 03:12, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * is not a magic pass allowing the insertion of uncited contents and remain indefinitely. In several articles I am working on, there is far too much uncited, or tagged contents in prose that remained TOO LONG. It's not the discretion of the person wishing to keep the contents to order it be tagged citation needed as opposed to removal. Whoever that has been making substandard edits by adding contents that isn't supported with sources should have corrected it before getting tagged or drafted in their sandbox with citation in place. Graywalls (talk) 21:02, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * No one is asking for magic, just good organizational citizenship behavior. A reader can tell if a paragraph or a section is well-written and dovetails with another article but a source is missing. Of course, delete poorly written crap. That is important too. But if some text is well-written and dovetails with another article, alert the community that a source is missing by adding the CN tag. It is no more difficult than deleting the paragraph. Adding the CN tag shows you have some respect for the original writer and that you are signaling other editors to help out if you don't have the means to help out yourself. Let's have less social Darwinism and more cooperation. Iss246 (talk) 21:19, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * How about using your sandbox and leaving it there until you have proper citations before moving it to into mainspace? This is not petty thing. Directly cited contents is one of the essential foundations of Wikipedia articles. Without citation, the contents are just questionable things written by random people. It might be excellent, or it might be total junk and it's only a guessing game. How well the sentence is written is not an indication of accuracy or neutrality of the contents. Graywalls (talk) 21:27, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * That is a constructive comment. Generally, when I add a sentence or two to a WP entry, I include a source. I don't use the sandbox. I typically have the source at hand. What I am driving at with regard to placing the CN tag is this. When another editor has written cogent text but for one reason or another left out the source, putting the text in my sandbox won't help. I would like all editors who visit the WP entry to see the CN tag and be alert to the fact that a source is missing, which would allow one or more of the editors to pitch in and locate a proper source. Iss246 (talk) 21:52, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The way you want it done doesn't override WP:BURDEN. As a courtesy, I can park the removed material to talk page so its preserved in an accessible way, but you can't compel other editors to do it the way you prefer it absent guidelines or policy prescribing it that way. If it's left up to the discretion of anyone, you can't compel others to do it your way. Graywalls (talk) 22:11, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Why are you challening me at every turn? I am not trying to compel anybody. That is BS. We are all volunteers working on WP. Some volunteer editor who sees the CN tag and knows the material may want to help. That is all. Iss246 (talk) 22:19, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Burner accounts doing massive contents drop in I-O psychology relevant articles
I am noticing this in articles in this field of single purpose burner accounts that show up out of nowhere and do a massive content dropping and disappear. This is common with promotional editing in organizations, companies and biography articles but outside of that, I don't see it often elsewhere. Anyone else notice? Graywalls (talk) 00:58, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Special:Diff/1177551781
 * Special:Contributions/JPAteam


 * I will just weigh in for that article and can see that the latest series of series of burner/IP account edits there seem ok. I don't have enough technical perspective on the topic to say whether the article is worded too promotionally, but the edits and most of that article don't follow style guides and could be worded much better. Note the first result for earwig copyvio is a mirror from wikipedia and should be disregarded. The second result  has two paragraphs copied and modified which should be removed/rewritten. And yes that topic definitely seems a promotional editing magnet. In general, COI/promotional/burner account editing on psychology/psychiatry topics does happen for therapies and pharmaceuticals pretty often in addition to orgs and BLPs. Darcyisverycute (talk) 16:02, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Students are getting told not to cite Wikipedia directly, but in academic world, it's been a good destination for sources. So, it would be logical place where scholars wanting to get their work selected for being cited into scholarly work would place it here. Just one way to look at it. I am used to seeing PR and promo edits in BLP and CORP pages but I wasn't expecting to find throwaway accounts outside of those. I wonder why it's more pervasive in psychology than say oncology, dentistry, etc. Graywalls (talk) 17:47, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @Graywalls, there is some merit to what you write. I haven't begun to think about the big picture in fields like medicine and dentistry in WP.
 * Scholars tend to shy away from WP as a source of information because they have access to databases in university libraries that make it easy to find review articles and meta-analyses that summarize vast amounts of research.
 * I add this. My understanding is that the trend is for students to increasingly rely on AI websites like ChatGPT. I think AI will diminish the importance of encyclopedias (e.g., WP) to students. Students' use of AI will pose a greater challenge to teachers/professors than students' reliance on WP; text plagiarized from WP is easily traced. Iss246 (talk) 19:10, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @Graywalls I wonder why it's more pervasive in psychology If you're genuinely not familiar, it's just the profit motive. It happens plenty in all fields of medicine - referring to your examples, see alternative cancer treatments and holistic dentistry. Believe me, it is a very, very long list, and a lot of them start with burner account edits and later get found and cleaned up. It happens for psychology/psychiatry in part because pharmaceutical companies have an economic chokehold and are routinely found guilty of fraud and illegal marketing. COI editing wikipedia is just another low cost way to do that, and it just gets picked up more in other areas of Wikipedia because it's used frequently by medical students and there are just less qualified editors in psychology/psychiatry.
 * is a good read. Psychology therapies also tend to be poorly regulated, eg. see . For reference I wrote the article on the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, which is rather notorious in that it specifically excludes regulation for psychiatry professions, leaving it to the significantly more lax policies of the RANZCP. Darcyisverycute (talk) 00:42, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
 * It gets interesting in March and April of 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Industrial_and_organizational_psychology&action=history&dir=prev&offset=20101016002616%7C390975932&limit=500 there's a farm of disposable accounts used with a handful of them used just for one day. I wonder if that's part of JPA "Team". Graywalls (talk) 00:49, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

B-checklist in project template
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Removing the info box on Dissociative identity disorder?
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FAR for Digital media use and mental health
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FAC of Education
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Good article reassessment for Bipolar disorder
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Request for peer review of Psychological barriers to effective altruism
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Psychological trauma and its narrowness of definition
The definition given here of what counts as psychological trauma (and what doesn't!) is much more narrow than on the French article Traumatisme psychologique. There, factors such as harassment, being a victim of alcoholism, poverty, are also listed as traumatic events. Why isn't it the case here, where such a demarcation is made as "The event must be understood by the affected person as directly threatening the affected person or their loved ones with death, severe bodily injury, or sexual violence"? To me it seems like the most extreme ones, as countless people are permanently scarred from for example complete emotional neglect in early childhood. This demarcation is problematic because someone who didn't get shot or raped might will feel their trauma is less valid. Synotia (moan) 11:30, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I responded at, and I suggest that others respond there to keep the responses centralized on the article talk page. Biogeographist (talk) 16:45, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Move on Cognitive load
Some discussions on Talk:Cognitive load were brought to my attention from a notification on WP:OSH. I can see that there's some general confusion regarding the title and subject; however, I don't have the knowledge to determine if it's right to move the article to Cognitive Load Theory and make a redirect to Workload. Would appreciate input or action from more knowledgable folks on the subject. Recon rabbit  03:19, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Information processing (psychology)
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The ICD-11 coding challenge
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Requested move at Talk:Sexual surrogate
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Good article reassessment for Marian Breland Bailey
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Merge proposal - Melancholic depression into Melancholia
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Good article reassessment for Mental status examination
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Requested move at Talk:Thematic apperception test
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Classification and difference between Somatic symptom disorder vs. Somatization disorder
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Julian Jaynes and his "bicameral mind" hypothesis that consciousness arose only about 4,000 years ago – 3-way POVFORK
Please see: Talk:Julian Jaynes.

Summary: Aspects of his hypothesis having "inspired" some later research doesn't equate to his work being proven correct, and cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and related displines decreasingly support it, most especially his central notion that consciousness only arose a few millennia ago. Furthermore, it was proposed at that article to move it and reshape it into an article on the book, since the person is not notable for anything other than one book. Instead, the subject has been WP:CFORKed (arguably WP:POVFORKed) into further articles (The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, and bicameral mentality). The bio mostly just repeats claims from the book article (but with barely any hint of controversy or challenge, and strong suggestions of influence), while the book article is mostly just repetition of what is said at the hypothesis article (but without much of the critical material from the latter).

It is thus proposed to merge these into a single article on the hypothesis, the book it came from, and who wrote it, with all the critical material present, and expanded by more recent work on consciousness and cognitition. Even if they were not merged, they have to stop viewpoint-forking (and coatracking of the hypothesis across all three articles).

Anyway, please follow up at the Talk:Julian_Jaynes discussion thread, so this stays centralized. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  14:21, 26 March 2024 (UTC)