Who would study psychology unless they had some issues?! Chapter 623: 575: Psychological Issues? Or Just Too Full—Get

Chapter 623: Chapter 575: Psychological Issues? Or Just Too Full—Get to Work with for Two Days and All Your Problems Will Be Gone!

Mo Kai felt fortunate to have smoothly passed the sudden knowledge check earlier, and now he was nodding repeatedly. He genuinely believed that this senior brother, who had just courageously participated in the master’s exam, indeed had extraordinary knowledge accumulation.

However, the thod Nan Zhubin ntioned, which involves using busyness to improve one’s inner state, is generally only applicable to the level of ‘psychological issues’. More severe ntal illnesses and psychiatric disorders involve deeper elents, possibly even physiological changes, which are not as easily resolved.

And even at the level of ‘psychological issues’, it is rare for busy work to ‘heal’ one effectively.

“More likely, it just temporarily suppresses the problem, which will resurface after the work is done,” Nan Zhubin said. “It might even bring new issues like ‘physical and ntal exhaustion’ or ‘avoidant coping’ at that ti.”

“After all, ntal discomfort is itself a kind of bodily warning, a subconscious cry for help.”

“Just wait, after the New Year, there will be a surge in consultations.”

This is not only Nan Zhubin’s personal deduction but also the work experience accumulated over previous years.

Mo Kai quietly noted down what Nan Zhubin said, even taking out a notebook to write sothing.

“Next ti I encounter such opinions online, I can use your words to debate those people…”

Nan Zhubin chuckled softly, “You’ll definitely fail. They probably won’t understand your academic explanations. Even though what I just told you has been proven in papers, they wouldn’t bother to look at them. If they did, they still wouldn’t understand.”

Heading towards the tea room, intent on getting a second cup of coffee: “They would likely claim they or soone they know had a problem, and ‘got busy’ and then they were ‘cured’—using that to support their belief as if there’s a single solution to all problems of the world.”

Hasty generalizations are one feature of online disputes that shouldn’t be missed.

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There wasn’t much work at the company, allowing Nan Zhubin and other consultants a short break.

But things were different in the university research groups.

By the ti one reaches the graduate level, standard vacations basically don’t apply to them anymore.

Graduate courses are few. But sotis, graduates even hope the school would schedule a few compulsory classes during the week to rescue them from their supervisors.

Of course, Bai Qinghua’s research group isn’t that harsh. Within the group, he is still a teacher rather than a boss.

But once in a high-level group ntored by soone like Bai Qinghua, even the students themselves won’t allow themselves to indulge in so-called campus life.

When Nan Zhubin had so free ti, he could always find senior ntors to help him with learning data analysis or mastering experintal instrunt operations in the research group.

This is also laying the groundwork for his future research career.

At the mont, Senior Brother Haoyun, who had set questions for him earlier and proctored his psychological consultant exam, was sitting at the computer adjusting instrunts.

And Nan Zhubin sat on the chair opposite him.

Today, Nan Zhubin was here not as the principal investigator but as a subject.

In other words, he was the one being studied.

“Junior brother, thank you so much for coming today.” After opening a program on the computer, Senior Brother Haoyun turned around and sincerely thanked Nan Zhubin.

Nan Zhubin replied with a light laugh, “It’s nothing, senior brother, considering all the help I’ve received from you before.”

Senior Brother Haoyun and Nan Zhubin were quite familiar with each other, and upon hearing Nan Zhubin’s courteous remark, he couldn’t help but start venting his frustrations: “Junior brother, you have no idea how hard it is to recruit subjects now. Especially for subjects required to cooperate with complex experints, many people run off at the sight of complicated experint procedures.”

“Even the few who do cooperate might ss up the experints, resulting in mostly invalid data. I either have to eliminate the hard-to-get data or increase the number of subjects…”

“Either way, it wastes the subject fee—speaking of which, while the teacher is generous with paynt, there is a limit. For even a small experint, the allocated budget is so much that I really have to be ticulous…”

Once he started complaining, Senior Brother Haoyun couldn’t stop.

Finally, he sumd up, “I’ve already exhausted everyone in our research group and everyone I know, yet it’s still not enough, thankfully you ca over.”

Nan Zhubin nodded.

It’s quite common for students to participate in experints and allow themselves to be studied within the graduate student community.

It’s usually around an hour or less, and you get tens of dollars for it, roughly equivalent to a day or two’s al cost.

If the experintal process is a bit more complex and the experint lasts longer, they might even pay more.

Senior Brother Haoyun said, “I recently cooperated with the adjacent research group in a four-hour experint, got five hundred bucks straight away!”

Nan Zhubin nodded, then asked curiously, “But senior brother, if people like and our group mates participate as subjects, is the data collected genuinely valid?”

Generally speaking, psychology experints try to avoid recruiting participants from the sa field; just like how Nan Zhubin can now consciously control psychological questionnaire scores, psychology students’ reactions in experints differ from those of normal people.

This situation is akin to a “curse of knowledge.” After learning sothing, displaying the reactions of soone who hasn’t learned it becos very difficult.

Senior Brother Haoyun waved his hand dismissively, “It’s fine, different studies have different requirents. My experint has more of a physiological focus; as long as you don’t know my experint process beforehand, your field of study won’t interfere with the data.”

As he was speaking, Senior Brother Haoyun instructed another junior sister who was acting as an assistant nearby, to take out a netted cap for Nan Zhubin to wear.

The cap was attached with several wires, and Senior Brother Haoyun explained, “This is an EEG device; I’ll need to use it to record your brainwaves later, essentially reflecting your thought activity level.”

Using Nan Zhubin in the experint also served to help him familiarize himself with the experintal equipnt operations.

The junior sister sitting to the side had been staring at Nan Zhubin without moving. On hearing Senior Brother Haoyun’s words, she showed an expression of ‘finally getting to do this’ and raised her hand to put the EEG cap on Nan Zhubin’s head.

Nan Zhubin could feel his hair being moved, while watching Senior Brother Haoyun plug the wires from the cap into the main device nearby, “Senior brother, will this read my brainwaves?”

Senior Brother shook his head, “We still need to apply a special gel on your scalp to reduce resistance—it could get rather ssy, but don’t worry, there’s a special cleaning room nearby to wash your hair.”

It was known beforehand that the experint might beco quite chaotic, but Nan Zhubin didn’t nod to express understanding, as his head was still being manipulated.

Senior Brother Haoyun quickly commanded again, “Junior sister, you apply the gel on Zhuren!”

Nan Zhubin blinked.

Why does it sound a bit off?

He saw the junior sister fetch a plastic container from the fridge and insert a syringe to draw so milky-white viscous substance.

The junior sister then carefully inserted the syringe through the sh gaps of the EEG cap and slowly pushed the plunger.

Nan Zhubin suddenly felt a coolness on his scalp, steadily growing colder, colder…

“Senior brother, it seems to be dripping down to my neck,” Nan Zhubin suddenly reminded.

Senior Brother Haoyun quickly stopped the junior sister, “Oh dear, why did you get Zhuren’s head all covered! Stop, no need for so much gel! Clean the excess gel from Zhuren’s head first!”

The junior sister imdiately fumbled awkwardly.

“She’s an undergrad, and it’s also her first ti doing experints, so her handling is not very skilled,” Senior Brother Haoyun apologized with a smile to Nan Zhubin.

Then he turned his head, glanced at the computer screen, and suddenly exclaid, “Wow, junior brother, your waves are really beautiful!”

Nan Zhubin twitched the corners of his mouth.