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r/cogsci

143.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.8K upvotes, which works out to 19 per 1,000 members.

19peak upvotes per 1,000 members
143.9Kmembers
2.8Kbest post
999most comments
198posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

49% 21% 17%
Link 49% Question 21% Text 17% Image 7% Video 5% Gallery 1%

The topics it labels

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Between 5 and 10 percent of people have no inner monologue at all, and researchers are only just starting to figure out what that actually does to co…

↑ 2.8K 💬 999 link 2026

Jon Ronson wrote a book about psychopaths. This is the response he received from one of them.

↑ 1.5K 💬 269 link 2011

Found this online IQ test (Riot IQ) that appears to complement traditional assessments like WAIS & Stanford-Binet. Methodology seems solid... What do…

↑ 1.2K 💬 9 video 2025

He thought his young daughter was a genius, until he realised her bright mind masked an inner darkness

↑ 1.1K 💬 214 link 2012

Human brains seem needlessly complex? Why is all this needed to stare at their phone and eat fast food.

↑ 944 💬 56 image 2024

"Decision fatigue": Prisoners who appeared early in the morning received parole about 70 percent of the time, while those who appeared late in the da…

↑ 723 💬 29 link 2011

Fruit fly brains seem needlessly complex? Why is all this needed to fly and eat my bananas

↑ 608 💬 107 image 2024

The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures - Analysis of how pictures affect messaging on OkCupid

↑ 542 💬 89 link 2010

The "Flashed Face Effect" - When normal faces are aligned at the eyes and shown in quick succession, the differences between them are exaggerated to …

↑ 539 💬 61 video 2012

PLEASE Stop posting Psychology Today links.

↑ 501 💬 163 text 2010

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