Subculture Psychology (1): Otaku Diversity and Spectrum

Psychology of Diversity

1. The Concept of Diversity 2. The Scope of the Psychology of Diversity 2.1. Intraindividual Differences 2.2. Interindividual Differences 2.3. Intergroup Differences 2.3.1. Example of Differential Variables Used in Organizing Groups 2.3.2. Qualifications When Interpreting Differences between Groups 3. Two Examples of the Study of Diversity 3.1. Bilingualism: Cognition and Affect 3.1.1. Diversit...

Otaku for Queer Theory and Media Theory

Rethinking fragmentation and diversity in psychology.

dieting is needed more than ever. From our perspective, however, the obesity epidemic provides testimony to the ineffectuality of (unrealistic) dieting, which has accompanied, and possibly contributed to, this epidemic. As for the other domains of self-change, the message is the same: Unrealistic hopes fuel failure, and given the constant rededication to self-change that characterizes our socie...

Political Diversity in Social and Personality Psychology.

A lack of political diversity in psychology is said to lead to a number of pernicious outcomes, including biased research and active discrimination against conservatives. We surveyed a large number (combined N = 800) of social and personality psychologists and discovered several interesting facts. First, although only 6% described themselves as conservative "overall," there was more diversity o...

The marine diversity spectrum

Distributions of species body sizes within a taxonomic group, for example, mammals, are widely studied and important because they help illuminate the evolutionary processes that produced these distributions. Distributions of the sizes of species within an assemblage delineated by geography instead of taxonomy (all the species in a region regardless of clade) are much less studied but are equall...