Psychology Short: F/GO & David Bluebook's Hyperthymesia

[@salt4528]

It's cool to see more people talking about David Bluebook.

[@renaldykristian3026]

Finally, someone told David with some easy illustrations I like you storytelling ❤

[@reynoldsalinas2031]

There is a theory I read somewhere here in KZbin, that David Bluebook is Daybit?!?

[@ANIMEBEAST27]

Would of been better to look into the japanese side of research rather than the western side of research. Since the Devs of the game are all japanese, they likely had very different research and outlook of the condition before writing this condition into the game

[@psychime2498]

English is the default language of the international psychological literature! Regardless of nationality or first language of the researchers, most psychology research is published in English. Japanese psychologists frequently publish in English and attend English-speaking international psychology conferences. There are several international psychology conferences in Japan that are conducted primarily in English- for example, ICMPC (The International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition). If you look it up you'll see that its website is entirely in English. (Whether English /should/ be the primary language of psychology is a different matter entirely, but the fact remains that it is.) I think that you have the impression that there's two different psychological literatures, but it's really one big community! The information that the writers had should be very very similar to the information that I was able to dig up because it's drawing on the same community of researchers and body of work. You do bring up a point that psychology does have a bias towards Western samples, but there really isn't a distinct split between the "Western" and "Eastern" psychological communities. I have looked for peer-reviewed studies on hyperthymesia in Japanese populations, but can't find any. But that wouldn't be relevant to Bluebook anyway, because he is explicitly American in the story. As far as the writers of FGO are concerned, it is true that they are Japanese! But Type-Moon is famous for having a whole team of researchers to investigate different cultures and historical figures in immense depth. If they intentionally gave David Bluebook hyperthymesia, they likely would have had to refer to translations and summaries of Western studies because that's where most of the people who research it live.