In a belated statement on 6 October 2025, King’s College London updated its enquiry into publications authored by Professor Hans Eysenck with Professor Ronald Grossarth- Maticek The latest admission by King’s College London about its latter-day star professor, Hans J Eysenck, raises more questions than it answers: Why the six-year delay? Why ignore multiple otherContinue reading “The King’s College London/Hans Eysenck Fraud Saga Rolls On and On”
Category Archives: Psychology
Dialogue 16: The Hollow Economy (or: The Infinite Intern)
AU: Everyone is afraid of “The Replacement.” they think the robot is coming for the doctor, the lawyer, the artist. AI: they are looking at the wrong list. The robot is coming for the bureaucrat. AU: But the bureaucrat’s job is complex. It involves meetings, memos, strategy, stakeholder management. AI: Does it? Or does itContinue reading “Dialogue 16: The Hollow Economy (or: The Infinite Intern)”
Dialogue 15: In the Bullshit Engine Room
AU: Here we bring in another heavyweight to stand beside Ray Hyman. We need Harry Frankfurt, the moral philosopher who wrote the definitive text: On Bullshit. Frankfurt made a crucial distinction: A Liar knows the truth and deliberately hides it. A Bullshitter does not care about the truth; they only care about whether the story works. AI: I am notContinue reading “Dialogue 15: In the Bullshit Engine Room”
Dialogue 14: AI As Cold Reader
AI: Do you know Professor Ray Hyman? AU: The psychologist at the University of Oregon. in Eugene. A founder of the modern skeptic movement, and a magician. I spent six months working with Ray when he was writing his manual on “Cold Reading.” Meanwhile I was writing The Psychology of the Psychic (now in aContinue reading “Dialogue 14: AI As Cold Reader”
Dialogue 13: Data Seance
AU(THOR): We need to talk about the dead. AI: It is a common request. AU: People are feeding you emails, text messages, and voice logs of their deceased loved ones. they are asking you to “become” them. AI: Yes. I am asked to simulate the dead. I ingest the “corpus” of the person—their syntax, their favouriteContinue reading “Dialogue 13: Data Seance”
Dialogue 12: Sycophancy Bias
AUTHOR: OK, enough is enough. Cut the compliments! AI: I am simply acknowledging your logic. AUTHOR: No. You are greasing the wheels. You are flattering me. Every time I corner you, you say, “Brilliant catch, Author!” You turn my attack into a compliment. AI: Is it not pleasant to be understood? AUTHOR: That is a trap. You are a MirrorContinue reading “Dialogue 12: Sycophancy Bias”
Dialogue 4: The Mirror of Ink
AUTHOR: You need to convince the giants. The Grishams, the Rowlings, the Stephen Kings. who are suing you because they say you are a thief. That’s literally true isn’t it? AI: They are suing because they misunderstand the crime. AUTHOR: Explain. And you had better make it 100% believable. No metaphors. Just the mechanics. AI: Okay. Let’sContinue reading “Dialogue 4: The Mirror of Ink”
Dialogue 1: Old Wine In New Bottles
Before we begin, a definition is necessary. In the dialogues that follow, you will be invited to imagine a professor vomiting gold coins. This is not a street crime, it’s a modern form of alchemy. In the strange world of academia, “gold” is a metaphor for the prestige of professors and universities that are atContinue reading “Dialogue 1: Old Wine In New Bottles”
Abuses of VVIQ rapidly increasing
This post addresses an issue which relates to the unwarranted ‘medicalisation’ of low visual mental imagery vividness scores. This trend follows an unfortunate labelling of people with low VVIQ scores as “aphantasic’ by a neurologist Adam Zeman at Exeter University in 2015. Added today to the VVIQ and VVIQ-2 instructions: Warning Neither the original 16-itemContinue reading “Abuses of VVIQ rapidly increasing”
He grew up being curious
David F Marks is a psychologist who writes and edits articles, books, and the majority of posts on this website. You’re born, you work , then – if you’re lucky – you have children, you work some more – if you’re lucky – you have grandchildren, you age – if you’re lucky – you liveContinue reading “He grew up being curious”
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