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• Commented on Sticky Situations: Stress
  Great post Kelsey! Sam was happy to hear that someone mentioned his study....
• Commented on A Critique of the IAT
  Wow, very thorough and scientifically reasoned!...
• Commented on "What is Beautiful is Good"
  Interestingly, Hooters was sued by the EEOC not too long ago for only hiring women. They got out of it partially by arguing that their real business is providing "vicarious sexual recreation", one of the most amusing legal phrases I've...
• Commented on Do You Have What It Takes to Be Dr. Cal Lightman?
  Interesting thoughts, though it is worth noting that humans are in reality exceptionally poor lie detectors. Even experts in the area don't do too much better than chance. Thus far, neither technology nor training has been too effective at improving...
• Commented on Beauty in the Eye of...the Mirror?
  Seeing ourselves in the mirror all the time results in the mere exposure effect, so I'd agree with you. Interesting sign off haha....
• Commented on Love is Love
  There's actually quite a bit of evidence from psychology that children of gay couples turn out just as well as those from straight couples. I would have liked to see some discussion of that to tie the discussion to psychology,...
• Commented on Relationship Formation in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
  Great application of psychology to an excellent movie!...
• Commented on IQ and that Pesky Correlation VS Causation
  Wow, good job really digging into the research! This is an excellent example of how useful IQ is for predicting job performance across the board....
• Commented on The Bourne Memory
  Actually retrograde amnesia can result in a loss of episodic memory, or memory of past events, without effecting procedural memory or semantic memory. Hence, skills and languages can in fact be retained despite the loss of event memory. Perhaps the...
• Commented on Homosexuality and the Nature/Nurture Debate
  Some very good points, everyone. Personally I think finding the causes of homosexuality is interesting and scientifically valuable, just like finding the causes of any other trait. I do agree, however, that it shouldn't really matter in terms of accepting...
• Commented on Unregulated and Uncontrolled: Our Addiction to Sugar
  Ha! That's an awesome picture, and a great post too....
• Commented on Harry Potter vs Free Will
  Just a few years ago, neuroscientists discovered that, by looking at participants' brain activity, they could actually predict decisions a person would make up to seven seconds prior to the individual actually making the decision. This is now widely touted...
• Commented on The Dark Side of Ethics
  I always find it interesting to see how psychology as a field has forgiven the ethical transgressions of the past. Seligman and Zimbardo became famous, respectively, for electrocuting dogs and subjecting humans to severe psychological degradation. Both became APA presidents...
• Commented on Anatomy of Psychology
  I always found it strange that people viewed the heart as the mental center. Your thoughts are in your head, so it seems obvious that the brain would be the locus of the mind. It just goes to show how...
• Commented on Monkey See, Monkey Do: Learning in Psychology
  I like the post, but is there any way you could change your username back to your X500 or otherwise just sign your name at the end of future posts? I can't tell who you are otherwise...just shoot me an...
• Commented on Toolbox of Skills...essential to save you from yourself
  It sounds like you are getting a good grasp on psychological science already! We'll be using scientific principles like the ones you discuss throughout the course....
• Commented on Read it and Weep
  Excellent post. There is a definite need to be skeptical about pop psychology such as self help books. The best bet is to go for books based on empirically supported interventions. Martin Seligman's books, such as Learned Optimism and Authentic...
• Commented on Two (half) brains are better than one
  Love the title. Make sure to post in the right section though. :)...
• Commented on I Hope I Don't Get Sick Before the Final!
  Great use of citations for your claims!...
• Commented on chapter 15
  There's definitely something to your approach. Much of behavior therapy could be described as relaxing and facing your fears in a controlled environment. Although some problems like schizophrenia are largely genetic....
• Commented on Pinocchio Response
  Excellent skeptical analysis. Polygraph tests are definitely not true lie detectors, and psychologists have been arguing against their use for decades....
• Commented on Personality: Formed by Genes or Environment
  Actually, a large portion of the variance in personality is due to environment......
• Commented on "It All Began When I was a Child..."
  A very engaging and visually interesting post! Psychodynamic or psychoanalytic therapy is indeed commonly seen in popular culture. It also has the unfortunate problem of being mostly wrong, as you'll learn about later. :)...
• Posted Group Assignments to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  Here are your assignments for posting groups. These are not the same as your in-class discussion groups (these are organized by last name and apply only to blog posting). Check the syllabus for the posting and comments schedule for your...
• Posted Needs Work: "Deja Vu" to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  The tendency of feeling that you lived past through that moment and going through the same experience is something that I struggle with everyday. Usually, it's a feeling that I get that I said thing before, or I have done...
• Posted Good post: "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder" to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  "The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes..." (Audrey Hepburn) Perhaps Ms. Hepburn knows what she's talking about. Page 137 of our psychology text books states that "The dilation (expansion) of the pupil also has...
• Posted Writing 1 Instructions to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  For this first blog post, you will be assigned a textbook chapter to look over. Here are Kate's instructions: In your discussion section this first week, you have been assigned a chapter from the Lilienfeld textbook (see below for your...
• Posted How to Post--The Basics to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  **NOTE: More detailed instructions are available in the syllabus. I highly recommend you read those as well as these. Both sets of instructions have important information you need to know before posting.** The first thing to remember about posting is...
• Commented on Unhealthy Perfectionism
  Good thoughts. I have a friend like that who has become a workaholic due to her compulsive need to still be "the best". Based on the research I've seen, I definitely agree that this type of behavior is not healthy...
• Commented on Personality Tests
  A word to the wise: Don't put too much stock in the Myers Briggs. Its construct and criterion-related validity is questionable to say the least......