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PsyberSpace® is a weekly psychology podcast for curious people who want to understand why the world feels the way it does—online and offline.

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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The more clearly you explain that a system is the problem, the more people need a person to fix it. The explanation triggers the very response it's trying to interrupt. That's compensatory control theory, and it's on PsyberSpace this week. psyber.space/episodes/the-o...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just posted "The One Person Problem: Why We Blame Villains and Wait for Heroes Instead of Fixing Systems" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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The One Person Problem: Why We Blame Villains and Wait for Heroes Instead of Fixing Systems
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Robot dogs with missiles. AI systems building kill lists. And at the top of every chain of command, a person who got there partly because their personality makes this feel acceptable. PsyberSpace this week is about the psychology of leaders who choose war. 🎧 psyber.space/episodes/wired...
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PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | Wired for War: The Psychology of Leaders Who Choose Conflict
War, Power, and the Psychology of Leaders: Dark Traits, Moral Disengagement, and AI-Driven Distance Dr. Leslie Poston argues that war is a predictable failure of leadership selection: the traits th...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just posted "Wired for War: The Psychology of Leaders Who Choose Conflict" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Wired for War: The Psychology of Leaders Who Choose Conflict
War, Power, and the Psychology of Leaders: Dark Traits, Moral...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just posted "Fear, Politics, and Getting the Science Right: Terror Management Theory Revisited" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Fear, Politics, and Getting the Science Right: Terror Management Theory Revisited
Terror Management Theory, Replication, and How Science Updates What We...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just posted "The Personality Test Industrial Complex: The MBTI Problem" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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The Personality Test Industrial Complex: The MBTI Problem
Why MBTI Took Over Corporate Culture Despite Weak Science, and What to...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
People who get stuck after hard experiences aren't weak. They may have less narrative infrastructure for processing difficulty, and there are real developmental and cultural reasons for that. I break down the research this week on PsyberSpace. share.transistor.fm/s/460e189f
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Why You're Stuck: The Stories We Tell Ourselves | PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world
Why Some People Bounce Back: Narrative Identity, Redemption Stories, and Getting Unstuck PARTICIPATE IN MY POST DOC RESEARCH! CLICK HERE. Dr. Leslie Poston explains that resilience after hard experiences often depends less on toughness or event sever
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just posted "Why You're Stuck: The Stories We Tell Ourselves" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Why You're Stuck: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Why Some People Bounce Back: Narrative Identity, Redemption Stories, and...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A researcher spent 18 months infiltrating far-right women's communities online and found that wellness and thinness content consistently functioned as entry points into political radicalization. The pipeline from SkinnyTok to tradwife to far-right ideology is real. psyber.space/episodes/speci...
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PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | Specimen in a Petri Dish Part Two: Body Control as Political Power
Body Policing as Authoritarian Power: From Fascist Propaganda to TikTok Pipelines In Part One, we asked who gets to decide what a woman's body should look like. In Part Two, Dr. Leslie Poston follo...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just posted "Specimen in a Petri Dish Part Two: Body Control as Political Power" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Specimen in a Petri Dish Part Two: Body Control as Political Power
Body Policing as Authoritarian Power: From Fascist Propaganda to TikTok...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Objectification theory doesn't start with women monitoring themselves. It starts with a culture that treats women's bodies as objects available for public evaluation. The self-monitoring is what women develop to survive that. psyber.space/episodes/speci...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just posted "Specimen in a Petri Dish: The Psychology of Public Body Policing" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Specimen in a Petri Dish: The Psychology of Public Body Policing
Why Society Feels Entitled to Comment on Women’s Bodies, and the Harm It...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Just posted "Be Cringe, Be Free: The Psychology of Refusing to Perform" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Be Cringe, Be Free: The Psychology of Refusing to Perform
Be Cringe, Be Free: Authenticity, Shame, and the Cost of Performing the...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Just posted "Gotcha Culture: Why Catching an AI Cheater Feels So Good" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Gotcha Culture: Why Catching an AI Cheater Feels So Good
The Psychology Behind AI Call-Outs and False Certainty Dr. Leslie Poston...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Just posted "Coded to Exhaustion: The Hidden Cost of Outsmarting the Algorithm" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Coded to Exhaustion: The Hidden Cost of Outsmarting the Algorithm
Algospeak and the Cost of Speaking Under Algorithmic Suppression When...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just posted "What We Lose When Knowledge Has to Pay Rent" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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What We Lose When Knowledge Has to Pay Rent
Education’s Value Beyond Jobs: Critical Thinking, Humanities, and the...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Just posted "Love Languages Were Never Scientific" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Love Languages Were Never Scientific
Why Love Languages Went Viral Without the Science to Support...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Just posted "Why We Keep Falling For Moral Panics" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Why We Keep Falling For Moral Panics
Moral Panics as Effort Shields: Why Outrage Replaces ActionWhy do we...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Just posted "Why We Reject New Evidence That Could Directly Help Us: The Semmelweis Effect" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Why We Reject New Evidence That Could Directly Help Us: The Semmelweis Effect
The Semmelweis Effect, COVID Cognitive Decline, and Why Evidence...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Just posted "The Age of Uncertainty: What Workplace Instablity is Doing to Your Brain" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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The Age of Uncertainty: What Workplace Instablity is Doing to Your Brain
Sustained Uncertainty at Work: Why It Hurts Your Brain and What...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Just posted "Sounds Deep, Says Nothing: The Science of Bullshit Receptivity" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Sounds Deep, Says Nothing: The Science of Bullshit Receptivity
Bullshit Receptivity: Why We Trust the Wrong WordsHost Leslie Poston...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Research shows your brain treats confidence as a proxy for accuracy. The problem: the people who know the least tend to sound the most certain, and the people who know the most tend to hedge. We're cognitively wired to trust the wrong person. #AcademicSky #Podcast bit.ly/4xinh4f
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Leslie @irishgoodbyephd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If you listen to @psyberspace.bsky.social, first of all, thank you! But also, did you know if you reply to an episode share on the PsyberSpace Bluesky account it shows up on the psyber.space site as a comment?
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PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world
PsyberSpace® is a weekly psychology podcast for curious people who want to understand why the world feels the way it does, online and offline. The show helps you name what you’re seeing and feeling, u...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Just posted "The Credibility Trap: Why We Trust Confident Wrongness" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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The Credibility Trap: Why We Trust Confident Wrongness
The Credibility Trap: Why Confidence Beats CorrectnessHost Leslie Poston...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Today's supposed to be the first podcast on the new Thu. release day, but there was so much construction happening near the studio this week the audio is too busted. Look for it next week after the first week off since we began. Thanks for your patience! Enjoy some of our past episodes: psyber.space
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PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world
PsyberSpace® is a weekly psychology podcast for curious people who want to understand why the world feels the way it does, online and offline. The show helps you name what you’re seeing and feeling, u...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Just posted "Propaganda: Nobody's Immune" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Propaganda: Nobody's Immune
How Propaganda Uses Your Values Against Your Brain: The Passport...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Just posted "Moral Licensing: How Doing Good Gives People Permission to Be Worse" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Moral Licensing: How Doing Good Gives People Permission to Be Worse
Moral Licensing: Why Doing Good Can Make Us Behave WorseHost Leslie...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Just posted "The Death of Serendipity: What Algorithmic Personalization Is Doing to Your Mind" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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The Death of Serendipity: What Algorithmic Personalization Is Doing to Your Mind
The Cost of Losing Serendipity in Algorithmic DiscoveryHost Leslie...
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Leslie @irishgoodbyephd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Taking a look at reality TV on the pod this week:
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Leslie @irishgoodbyephd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Men spent last week debating whether "62 million" was the right number in the CNN rape academy story. Meanwhile, the site is still online. The women in their lives noticed both things. New episode on the psychology of minimization and what it costs women. bit.ly/4tpHR0f
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PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | From the Rape Academy to Your Living Room
Semantic Derailment and the Social Permission That Sustains Organized Sexual ViolenceHost Leslie Poston discusses a CNN investigation into an “online rape academy,” including a Telegram group calle...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This week I’m talking about the ethics and psychology of TV shows that depend on deception, humiliation, manipulation, or engineered conflict to work. psyber.space/episode...
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PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | When TV Makes Harm Look Normal: Why We Keep Watching
The Ethics of Reality TV: Deception, Conflict, and What We NormalizeHost Leslie Poston examines the ethical and psychological costs of reality and reality-adjacent TV that relies on deception or en...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Just posted "When TV Makes Harm Look Normal: Why We Keep Watching" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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When TV Makes Harm Look Normal: Why We Keep Watching
The Ethics of Reality TV: Deception, Conflict, and What We NormalizeHost...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We're nominated for a 2026 Women in Podcasting award! Vote for us here: www.womenpodcasters....
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Leslie @irishgoodbyephd.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Reminder that you can follow the podcast account directly here if you want just the podcast and not my varied, random posts :)
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Just posted "The Psychology of AI Slop: How Synthetic Junk Erodes Attention, Trust, and Meaning" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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The Psychology of AI Slop: How Synthetic Junk Erodes Attention, Trust, and Meaning
AI Slop and Your Brain: Attention, Fatigue, and the Erosion of...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Just posted "Meta Lost. Now What?" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Meta Lost. Now What?
Meta Verdicts, Kids’ Harm, and the Push for Age VerificationHost Leslie...
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Leslie @irishgoodbyephd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
In case you missed it last night:
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Just posted "The 100% Myth: Why Giving Everything Is Costing You Everything" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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The 100% Myth: Why Giving Everything Is Costing You Everything
Why “Give 100%” Is Corrosive: Sustainable Performance, Burnout, and...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Just posted "Why Common Sense Isn't Common" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Why Common Sense Isn't Common
Common Sense or Power Move? The One Question That Reveals the...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Just posted "Your AI Best Friend Is Lying To You" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Your AI Best Friend Is Lying To You
When AI Becomes a Confidant: Loneliness, Engagement Incentives, and the...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Just posted "Forever Wars Shrink the Future: What Endless War Does to the Human Mind" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Forever Wars Shrink the Future: What Endless War Does to the Human Mind
Forever War and the Stolen FutureHost Leslie Poston examines a hidden...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Just posted "What the Epstein Network Tells Us About Power, Complicity, and the Psychology of Betrayal" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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What the Epstein Network Tells Us About Power, Complicity, and the Psychology of Betrayal
Losing Our Heroes: The Epstein Files, Elite Complicity, and the...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Just posted "Courage is Contagious: The Psychology of Collective Efficacy" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Courage is Contagious: The Psychology of Collective Efficacy
Sustained Resistance: How Communities Keep Showing Up Under...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Just posted "The War on What You Saw: The Psychology of Gaslighting at Scale" on PsyberSpace™ 🎙️ Have a listen:
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The War on What You Saw: The Psychology of Gaslighting at Scale
The Power and Purpose of Obvious Lies in Authoritarian RegimesIn this...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Just posted "When They Come For You: The Psychology of Expanding Violence" on PsyberSpace™ 🎙️ Have a listen:
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When They Come For You: The Psychology of Expanding Violence
Understanding American Authoritarianism Short Series Part 1 of 3:...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Parents are working 3 jobs, drowning in childcare costs, have no support network, then get told their kid's anxiety is because of social media. That's not analysis, that's scapegoating. New PsyberSpace episode on why we keep choosing surveillance over actual solutions. psyber.space/episode...
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PsyberSpace: Understand Your World | Your Data Is Already Breached: Why Age Verification Makes It Worse
The Illusion of Digital Safety: How Age Gates and Digital IDs Miss the MarkIn this episode of PsyberSpace, host Leslie Poston digs into the ineffectiveness and risks of age gates and digital ID ver...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Just posted "Your Data Is Already Breached: Why Age Verification Makes It Worse" on PsyberSpace™ 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Your Data Is Already Breached: Why Age Verification Makes It Worse
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Just posted "Why Does Debating Bad Ideas Make Them Stronger?" on PsyberSpace™ 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Why Does Debating Bad Ideas Make Them Stronger?
The Hidden Dangers of Debate: Why It Can Legitimize Bad IdeasIn this...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Just posted "When "No" Stops Mattering: The Psychology of Stolen Consent" on PsyberSpace™ 🎙️ Have a listen:
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When "No" Stops Mattering: The Psychology of Stolen Consent
The Erosion of Consent in the Digital AgeIn this episode of...
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PsyberSpace® @psyberspace.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Just posted "Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, EMDR, and Beyond: Real Talk on Mental Health Modalities" on PsyberSpace™ 🎙️ Have a listen:
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Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, EMDR, and Beyond: Real Talk on Mental Health Modalities
PsyberSpace® on Navigating Therapy: Finding the Right Modality and...
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