TikTok and the Debate Surrounding Psychological “Fact”
You’ve seen it before: a photo shared by a friend or relative on your feed, informing you of an extraordinary, absolute truth about your psyche that you weren’t aware of. Maybe it’s about how you’re in luck because people who sleep in are inherently more intelligent or that people who try to make others happy tend to be the loneliest. Psychology “facts” in the form of memes or repeatedly copied-and-pasted text posts (AKA “copypasta”) have been commonplace on social media plat