nah I'm That Guy too, not Camus for me I read a lot of phenomenology and existentialism in college and it shaped my thinking! Fits well with constructivism in psych

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I can't even fault people for that. We reach for the explanations that we think other people will take seriously. But it obscures the picture SO MUCH. I have to spend SO MUCH time unpacking bad "biology" pseudoscience explanations for negative experiences in workplaces.

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Biology is always involved in behavior, but we make a lot of unfounded, simplistic leaps when we try to mash biology explanations into everything, and worse, we smuggle in a lot of mechanistic stories about how things must be permanent damage that simply aren't

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I really think that sometimes we have very intense feelings about a thing, and so we want that thing to have an intensely biological, neurological explanation, because we feel that is a more "real" and substantive concern than explanations about our experiences of motivation, belonging, anxiety, etc

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So lemme get this straight: Seinfeld is a millennial show but The Strokes are for some reason not a millennial band? Jerry Seinfeld is 72 years old and Julian Casablancas is in three years older than the oldest millennials.

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