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• Commented on EvoDevo and Epigenetics are going to turn the Nature v. Nurture debate into a Ménage à trois. Or is that quatre?
  Okay, I read the post over again since you commented and yes, I was a little hard on JP. I suppose that when you are the giant upon whom others stand there is a tendency to create initial theories based...
• Posted "Uncomfortableness" and mental illness to Section 25 Psych 1001
  The uniformity and ease with which our discussion group discriminated between the feeling one gets around someone with a physical injury or disease as apposed to mental illness was thought provoking in contrast with the disparate views on why that...
• Posted Yeah, that's it, just thought it was funny. to Section 25 Psych 1001
• Commented on Waiting Until the Last Minute, Again?!
  I, like most people in life probably think of themselves as champion procrastinators. I tried Premack's suggestion and it failed utterly. Turns out when I both control the stimulus and the eject button I chose the eject button. I need...
• Commented on Lucid dreaming and Inception
  I am one of those people that rarely if ever remember that they dreamed upon waking much less what the dream was about. I thought this blog post was great and made great use of the movie clip....
• Commented on Is your brain full?
  Interesting topic to me. I recently took the Strong Interest Inventory and was not sure if it was kosher. I think the best indicator of personality is your star sign. I'm an ares....
• Posted EvoDevo and Epigenetics are going to turn the Nature v. Nurture debate into a Ménage à trois. Or is that quatre? to Section 25 Psych 1001
  The overwhelming message of the developmental chapter in our book other than that being a French child-psychologist (I think the hyphen is key here) is a ticket to immortality, is that there is a major struggle between experiential and innate...
• Posted Were you stolen at birth and raised with the Himba in Namibia? to Section 25 Psych 1001
  Well, not really, unless this looks familiar:        Take this test. How did you do? I scored a 0, indicating no issues in my color differentiation abilities. Given the greater genetic predisposition to color blindness in men, it would...
• Commented on Nature Vs. Nurture: A Tightly Woven Web.
  Very interesting data. Makes me think that while both nature and nurture are important contributing factors to overall IQ, nurture is the more important because it is the contributing aspect that can be controlled. As far as intelligence, it seems...
• Posted The Numinous and the mundane - Part Duex to Section 25 Psych 1001
  In religious studies, the feeling of finding yourself in a divine presence is called experiencing the numen. Monte Python would explain this feeling as one's apprehension of the vastness of the universe and our small place within it: Humanities and...
• Commented on Unexplainable cat behavior
  Mammal vs. dinosaur, a battle going back more than 65 million years, although we've had the better end of that fight in recent times......
• Posted The Numinous and the mundane to Section 25 Psych 1001
  Okay, so I am a return to collage student. This is obvious by how readily I raise my hand and unabashedly give my opinion in discussion class. One of my undergraduate majors, oh so many years ago now, was religious...
• Commented on The "X" Factor in seXual Orientation
  Paul, you have completed the Brits trifecta. Boom! Cool post....
• Commented on Gruenwald, Jenna, 9/21, section 25
  Jenna, great post. About the activity in the amygdala for an animal lover, probably right before their pit bull turns on them......
• Posted The Six Principles of Scientific Thinking Are Not Enough to Section 25 Psych 1001
  A number of years ago I was introduced to the skeptical movement. The movement describes a skeptic as one that uses critical thinking skills to evaluate truth claims made about observable phenomena. It may be a politician discussing the need...