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Improvement suggestion- AFI week 30

Hey wiki noob here but I think the article provides minimal coverage on how digital technology(incl. phones, social media, etc.) has basically fundamentally changed human behavior patterns. See: Journal of Medical Internet Research - Digital Behavior Change Intervention Designs for Habit Formation: Systematic Review For direct examples.

Suggestion 1: A dedicated subsection on digital behavior covering: Digital behavior change interventions and their effectiveness, Social medias impact on social behavior patterns, Technology addiction and digital welness behaviors, Online consumer behavior and decision-making, Virtual reality applications in behavior modification.

Climate psychology/environmental behavior: The current ecological behavior section provides superficial coverage of interactions between humans and their environments, lacks discussion in climate psychology which is distinct enough to be a important psychological topic i'd say ^[1]

suggestion 2: Expand ecological behavior section I would add: climate psychology as an emerging field, pro-environmental behavior research and interventions, climate anxiety and stress and impacts onmental health, environmental decision making processes and cognitive biases.

suggestion 3: article is missing some new findings in neuroscience, like how the speed of human thought was quantified for the first time last year. ^[2]

Collective behavior/group dynamics, current article provides minimum coverage on collective behavior which is a major gap given the significance of group dynamics on humans.

should expand into: crowd psychology/"mass behavior phenomena", social movements and how they might impact behavior, and online digital collective behavior and group dynamics

Potentially including behavioral genomics where it covers genetic influences on behavior. See: The next 10 years of behavioural genomic research - Plomin - 2022 - JCPP Advances - Wiley Online Library / how polygenic scores are used to predict behavioral traits and obviously the ethical in all of it

I would love to hear some feedback!! :) Eloquentverse (talk) 21:13, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Conspiracy behavior and conspiratorial thinking (completely missing!)

Superstitious and magical thinking behavior

Moral and ethical behavior

Tribal and in-group/out-group behavior

Ritualistic and ceremonial behavior

Addictive and compulsive behavior

Communication and linguistic behavior

---- good ones ^^ Eloquentverse (talk) 00:15, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

also missing basically a lot of the spectrum of antisocial, criminal or extremist human behaviors. Article currently minimally covers deviance, crime, violence. Does not cover: systematic deception (mass fraud (like a ponzi scheme)), manipulation, serial killing (the act, premeditation etc), organized crime(the reasons for it/thought process as to why humans build criminal groups murder for profit etc), cults, extremism (religious/sex-based/race-based). It is missing the act of Hoaxing/deception, it's missing a ton of stuff article is missing around 80% of fundamental human behaviors including biological/evolutionary actions like sexuality (not sex), territoriality, aggression, and sleep; psychological traits like anxiety, OCD, and personality disorders; social and cultural behaviors like religion, rituals, and deviance; communication skills like storytelling, lying, and persuasion; play, leisure, and learning behaviors; stress responses; identity formation; and temporal behaviors (planning or procrastinating or time management)

Gonna be working on some of this but would not like to influence the whole article looking for some contributors that can help me :) Eloquentverse (talk) 00:49, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Clayton, S. (2024). A social psychology of climate change: Progress and promise. British Journal of Social Psychology, 63(4), 1535-1546. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12749
^ Zheng, J., & Meister, M. (2024). The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? Neuron. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/thinking-slowly-the-paradoxical-slowness-of-human-behavior

[1] Clayton, S. (2024). A social psychology of climate change: Progress and promise. British Journal of Social Psychology, 63(4), 1535-1546. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12749

[2] Zheng, J., & Meister, M. (2024). The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? Neuron. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/thinking-slowly-the-paradoxical-slowness-of-human-behavior

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