For The Questions That Linger After The Lecture Ends

I kept coming back to ideas that didn’t feel finished. The kinds of questions that extend beyond exams, lecture halls, or single frameworks.

Why do people shift their behavior under observation?

Why do certain social roles feel automatic, even when no one explicitly assigns them?

How does perception become mistaken for truth, and performance mistaken for authenticity?

My focus is on social psychology. The perspective behind this project is also shaped by lived experience. I have moved through moments of misrecognition, through roles that felt assigned rather than chosen, and through a persistent need to understand how social behavior can obscure more than it reveals.

Beyond the Bystander is where I revisit those patterns. It is not a static portfolio or a teaching resource. It is a working archive, part theory, part observation, and part reflection. Some pages unpack foundational concepts. Others explore tensions between individual agency, digital structure, and interpersonal perception.

Each article is written using a structure I call Why I Care and Why You Should Too. It begins with a personal entry point, such as a moment, memory, or lived observation, to explore why a given concept matters to me. From there, it shifts outward to consider why that concept should matter to others as well. This framing helps ground abstract theories in both personal experience and real-world relevance.

It is for those who circle back to concepts long after class has ended. It is not designed to offer a substitute for the textbooks. Instead, it invites slower reading, closer thinking, and more precise questions. Especially when it comes to what we assume about others, and what we learn to assume about ourselves.