🧪 Darius’ laboratory
🧪 academic background: psychology undergraduate
🧪 affiliation: none, non-professional daily self- conducted research
🧪 methods: observation, field research, researcher-participant, questioning techniques (metaphors, comparing similar situations)
🧪 fields of study: daily human social behaviour
🧪 rigurosity: as high as it can be; accounting for probabilities, weights, assessing bias, meta-questioning
🧪 information-theory or theory-information: both; when creating theory, optimizing for parsimony
🧪 philosophy/current frameworks: evolutionary and social psychology RESEARCH, determinism, egoism, unifying theories of selfish behaviour across social groups (accounts for gender, race etc.), therapy and psychiatry critical (critical of APPLIED RESEARCH)
🧪 common research impasses: hypocrisy vs over-arching undiscovered theory that explains contradictions, explaining the usefulness of research, being able to coherently explain the connection between multiple elements (unusual theories)
🧪 personal significance of research: high, used as a tool of survival and assessing allies; uses research and inquiry as a love language
🧪 personality profile of the researcher: very emotionally invested, will often look distressed















