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I'm going to guess that it was annoyingly self-demonstrating and was half Real Life examples. Check the RL example cleanup thread.
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Actually, it was because of severe misuse. As defined, the trope was "someone speaks with an overly passive tone." Nearly every example was using it as, well, the colloquial definition of Armchair Psychology where someone with no credentials tries to analyze someone.
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The latter actually seems tropeable, though, given the number of inbounds I'm cleaning up.
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It was cut during a TRS thread, when I requested a clock on it. The request was apparently seen by a cutmaster, who decided that we'd be better off without that page - which is right, given the word salad that the description was.
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Redoing this as the actual common definition is an excellent idea. We can unlock the page when that's ready to launch. And lose the self-demonstrating idiocy.
edited 8th Jan '14 8:30:47 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
So, I know this thread was years ago, but did a comparable trope to Armchair Psychology ever get created? Something about people with no formal credentials psycho-analyzing others?
Found this thread on a google walk. And yeah I agree, a proper Armchair Psychology trope would be great to have, if only to spread awareness to it and the damage it does. Only problem I can see is it getting miss-attributed to any kind of self help or pep talk that isn't warranted. It'll definitely need some criteria to narrow down the examples. Something like...
- Has to involve some form of psychoanalysis by the armchair psychologist, followed by advice, which is either unwarranted or forced upon the second party
- The advice has to have a negative impact on the character in some way
- The armchair psychologist has to, at least, believe they have some expertise in the subject they are talking about, but don't have any proper education or degree in psychology
There's some overlap with The Shrink, but I think there's a big enough difference in the fact that this person isn't a psychiatrist at all; only pretending to be one. This is either due to a genuine misguided attempt to help someone, an egotistical need to feel important or intelligent at the expense of others, or psychology 101 syndrome (which combines The Hammer-and-Nail Phenomenon with someone's first introduction into analytical psychology to the misfortune of everyone around them).
Edited by justthereforthecode on Mar 27th 2024 at 7:42:00 AM
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Can you think of any examples in media that would fit?
Why was this cut? And why did no one bother to clean up the inbounds? I see nothing for it on the cutlist.