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 No.33535>>33537 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Get this: a group of psychologists are trying to research the psychology behind furries.

They have a book of their studies.

Do they make good points or is it just nut propaganda?

http://furscience.com/publications/

 No.33536


 No.33537>>33538

>>33535 (OP)

>psychology

Almost if not always overthinking things and grabbing correlation where none exists.


 No.33538>>33540

Oh boy. I'll read this tomorrow.

>>33537

Armchair psychology sure, but there's a lot of solid research into human behavior and it's quite the interesting subject.

Of course, never think there are absolutes for the human mind.


 No.33540

>>33538

Yeah. Human brains are too complex to be determined by one person or set of people alone. A conscientious can be reached and agreed upon though. Not everybody can get everything right. Lying always makes things harder, too. All-in-all: psychology is flawed, and always will be. But it can help you better evaluate situations, think on them, and make arguments based off of them with more credibility.


 No.33550>>33708

>In another study (F3) we asked furries whether or not they identified as members other fan communities. Nearly half of furries (44.0%) were anime fans, and about 1 in 5 were bronies (fans of My Little Pony, 21.1%).


 No.33551>>33709

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I thought this was a unikitty thread


 No.33708

>>33550

> and about 1 in 5 were bronies (fans of My Little Pony, 21.1%)

Interestingly enough, when I took a few random samplings of e621 uploads, about 20% of them were MLP.


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 No.34967>>35129

It's both a Unikitty thread and a psychology thread


 No.35086>>35089 >>35092


 No.35089>>35519

>>35086

Unikitty is not for the lewd, please.


 No.35092>>35143 >>35144

>>35086

is that a cuntboy?


 No.35129

>>34967

That makes no sense


 No.35143

>>35092

Vagibro.

Also, very unlikely. It's a feral, is what I'd call it.


 No.35144

>>35092

no it's a cat


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>>35089

Request denied.

Polite spoiler instead.


 No.35708>>38742 >>38832

I don't even need to open that link. Furrism is a result of retrogressive physiognomic ancestor envy translated into aesthetic and erotic frameworks.

Tail envy, for instance. We once had tails, which were useful for things like balancing, and would have been factored into determining suitable mates (not to mention the fact of their proximity to the reproductive regions), so a deep part of our inherited evolutionary psychology is outraged at the fact that our tails have rescinded into imperceptible tail-bones, and this is expressed as a projected fantasy in some individuals, manifesting as a a sense of nostalgia and admiration for tail-possession.

You can apply the same thing to fur, to a lesser extent. Fur was much less complicated than having to pick your outfit in the morning. It kept you warm, and grooming was an important socialising activity for packs of apes. We still like to play with a lover's hair, or tussle the hair of a loved one, but the excuse to explore body-hair has more or less evaporated. And everyone tends to look and feel pretty stupid when they're naked, unless you're charged up with hormones.

Paws are more symmetrical than hands with opposable digits, so the human mind can potentially detect an element of beauty there that's not present in quite the same way with human hands. Something similar is the case with ears on things like cats and dogs, and even though monkey ears aren't that much different from our own ears, the animals I mentioned have flexible, directionally-orientable ears that are suited to directing a wider range of tones, and we can derive emotional states from observing the ears of cats and dogs (cats especially) in a way that we can't with our own (one big thing that makes humans comfortable around other humans is the ability to 'read' where they're at, and fit their predicted behaviour into a partial internal framework accordingly).

And how about moving around on all-fours, when needed, if we want to look to the feral-furs? We can acknowledge that it's more suited to high-speed, short-distance travel in the animal kingdom, but we've bred that potential out of us entirely, in order to optimise predator-detection. What a crying shame. Plus, it simplifies breeding to a great extent, and if there's one thing that humans are good at, it's getting excited about the prospect of simplifying certain problems. Not that I'm saying that the reproductive problem is one that's necessarily better when it's simple, but a great deal of erotic fetishes and cues embody that in their fantasy-framework to a certain extent.

You get elements of what //could// be called 'furrism' by our modern standards (although it's a massive oversimplification, but let's run with it) in divine pantheons, art and culture all throughout history. So there's a great cultural and spiritual heritage backing the pursuit of incorporating the wild, bestial world into 'civilised' human experience and self-image. You could make a strong argument that we're just finding new ways of articulating and satiating this old drive, and applying it to eroticism because sexuality is (by nature) the stage for boundary dissolution (between individuals, or sexes, typically) and the generation of something new out of the experiment of recombination.

Obviously, a great amount of exoticism/eroticism is also the urge for obtaining or somehow incorporating (or being incorporated with) an unfamiliar-desirable element that's not wholly available to you. We apply our discriminatory faculties to that as well, of course (we don't tend to glorify getting fleas or alienating your own reflection, for example).

I am joking. I am putting forward plausible-sounding ideas in the spirit of humour, and I don't have any background in psychology (except for some overlap from literature, philosophy, and a certain amount of research into psychology and esotericism I've performed to serve my own curiosity and growth).

But psychology is kind of necessarily a self-aware joke in itself, anyway, and it's not limited to the psychologists, any more than the human mind is limited to the psychologists. The conscious mind, driven by the unconscious mind, to tease out the mysteries of the mind and make them available to consciousness, while the unconscious protects these mysteries as a matter of self-preservation and sanity. It's comically close to the snake eating its own tail (snakes were one of our biggest evolutionary predators, by the way). So I guess if these jokes actually DO prompt some thoughtful ideas on someone else's end (even if the idea is just "wow, that's so incorrect, it's more like ___", then good for you, that's the spirit of psychological self-inquiry at work.


 No.38742

>>35708

The spoiler text at the end made me fall in love with you... platonically, of course. We have a few of the same wavelengths going there, and its somewhat comforting to have confirmation that there are other people who think similarly to myself.

Oh, and bonus points for the cunt cat image.


 No.38832

>>35708

Nice post. I find animals appealing because they are easy to read, even if their attitude can change on a dime. I know humans want the same thing, but the vast majority cannot let go of what they've been taught, and to just live in the moment.

Our upper cognitive abilities are both a blessing and a curse, where all but a few animals can turn off, or never had, that feeling of regret, remorse, revenge, or that spark of imagination that lead us to conquer the world.

I think the mass appeal for those of us in the community is that desire have back what we lost to time, like you mentioned. It's always been there, even in mainstream society, it's just that this community has brought it to the mainstream that none have done before, in it's creativity and imagination, be it clean or sexualized.




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