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Psychology

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Psychology

Description

Community to discuss the theory about academic information from the field and non-academic questions and discussions.

Topics

Topics covered would include:

Human behaviour;
Emotions and feelings;
Related philosophy and literature, which are intensely connected fields;

Exclusions

These topics or types of posts would be out of scope:

Diagnostics;
Questions from fictional environments;

Special Features

If possible, not out the Codidact scope and if it isn't already existent, a forum-like environment would be useful for discussion.

Overlaps

There may be overlaps when discussing about topics related to philosophy and literature.

psychology

posted 12 days ago

kahlo‭

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Can you say more about the forum-like environment you're envisioning? We can set up a separate categ... (3 comments)

Monica Cellio‭ wrote 10 days ago

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Can you say more about the forum-like environment you're envisioning? We can set up a separate category alongside Q&A for a different type of content (see, for example, Papers on Electrical Engineering or Code Reviews on Software Development), but that's still oriented around questions, articles, or wikis. Would you be looking for a different type of post or UI interaction?

kahlo‭ wrote 10 days ago

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Hi Monica. My suggestion was based on the feeling that a community like this, as it would grow large with time, could have lots of discussions on an variety of topics so, in order not to pollute one specific question with people discussing about something - which isn't always a bad thing - there could be a space for discussions outside the questions.

I took a look at the aforementioned communities and it is very similar to what I thought, a space outside the Q&A but inside the community. One usage example: In one question someone may mention, in it's answer, an information related to some definition and others might want to disagree, add something about it or even make other questions about the definition but not necessarily about the main question. A "thread" could be opened in this other part of the community for further discussions and the main question wouldn't be flooded with not so related messages.

kahlo‭ wrote 10 days ago · edited 10 days ago

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I don't think there would be necessary to create a much different UI, if any. The Q&A style would mostly work, the only difference I can think of is that instead of one main question there could be more people questioning about one specific topic and more people discussing about it, so there wouldn't be a "correct answer" or most voted question.

I understand that the activity in one question, even if the discussions are not completely related, are still valuable for the community and doesn't necessarily mean the question page or community would be unorganized. And as I said, I thought about a community with plenty of members because that's when there could be more discussions on different topics. More important is that this environment can be something to be implemented later as the community grows if the community and staff sees the necessity.

I hope I could clarify a bit about it.

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