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r/psychology

A Reddit community for sharing and discussing science-based psychological material. Founded 2008 · 4.9M members · links only

4.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 35K upvotes, which works out to 7 per 1,000 members.

7peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.9Mmembers
35Kbest post
6.4Kmost comments
502posts 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.

96%
Link 96% Text 3% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Weekly Discussion Thread 9 Monthly Research/Survey Thread 2 Journal Article 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Baby boomers are more sensitive than millennials, according to the largest-ever study on narcissism

↑ 35K 💬 2K link 2022

First-ever scan of a dying human brain reveals life may actually 'flash before your eyes'

↑ 26.2K 💬 1.8K link 2025

Atheists are nicer to Christians than Christians are to atheists, study finds

↑ 24.2K 💬 1.2K link 2025

A white supremacist took MDMA for a study, and it snapped him out of his beliefs: 'Why am I doing this?'

↑ 20.8K 💬 1.4K link 2023

The children’s mental health crisis didn’t start with the pandemic

↑ 19.4K 💬 870 link 2022

Why Are So Many Young Men Single And Sexless: The haunting relationship trends wreaking havoc on 20-somethings.

↑ 17K 💬 6.4K link 2023

Teen suicides plummeted in March '20, when schools shut due to COVID. Returning from online to in-person schooling was associated with a 12-18% incre…

↑ 16.3K 💬 670 link 2023

Millennials Aren'€™t Coddled - They Just Reject Abuse As A Management Tactic

↑ 14.8K 💬 1.1K link 2017

When women do more household labor, they see their partner as a dependent and sexual desire dwindles

↑ 13.5K 💬 1.9K link 2022

Scientists Find No Evidence That Depression Is Caused by “Chemical Imbalance” or Low Serotonin Levels

↑ 13.1K 💬 1.5K link 2022

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/psychology, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/psychology?
r/psychology describes itself this way: A Reddit community for sharing and discussing science-based psychological material. It was founded in 2008 and has 4.9M members.
How many members does r/psychology have?
r/psychology has about 4.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 502 of its posts; the biggest reached 35K upvotes, which is 7 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/psychology?
"Baby boomers are more sensitive than millennials, according to the largest-ever study on narcissism" reached 35K upvotes and 2K comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/psychology.
What subreddits are similar to r/psychology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/awesome.
What kind of posts do best on r/psychology?
Of the posts we hold, 96% are link posts and 3% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/psychology?
Across 502 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 18:00 UTC (6.6K avg upvotes), Monday at 15:00 UTC (6.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 21:00 UTC (5.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/psychology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/psychology has 8.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 74 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/psychology, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.