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• Commented on Stages of Development: A New Way of Thinking
  I think it is important for parents to realize that their child's development will not and is not supposed to follow the "normal stages" of development. Parents must be informed that their children are perfectly normal in not following the...
• Commented on A Prisoner or a Free Man?
  This is such a disturbing story. It is remarkable how in just six short days these students could be transformed in such a significant way. I would be interested to know the psychological effects of this experiment on the guards...
• Commented on To Judge or Not To Judge
  What a sad story! It is unfortunate that sometimes our mental heuristics can lead us to form inaccurate assumptions....
• Posted You're A Ten! ;) to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
  Five years from now I will remember learning about the psychological explanation of attraction. One of the biggest things that stuck out to me was the influence of factors such as proximity, similarity, reciprocity, and physical attraction on what makes...
• Commented on Wait, I Thought That??
  When I take surveys such as the one you completed, I also feel as though I know the outcome of my answers. However, after hearing you recall how the results of this survey did not match your predicted response, I...
• Commented on Birth Order: Does It Really Matter?
  I agree that the birth order theory lacks any credibility without replicatability. However, I do find the theory interesting. Does the theory take into account gender of the siblings? Or the age differences between the siblings?...
• Commented on How the Big5 are reflected in your study habits.
  I also agree that the Big 5 personality traits accurately reflect a person's study habits. Throughout the discussion in which we were grouped with people with similar "Big 5 scores", I realized that the survey we took was spot on...
• Commented on Stop telling me to be thin!
  Not only does the show The Biggest Loser promote those superficial ideals about beauty and body image, it also promotes unhealthy weight loss measures. Contestants on the show are encouraged to dehydrate, skip meals, and exercise excessively to drop weight...
• Commented on Is Chocolate a Sign of True Love?
  This is a very interesting topic! I think that the reason people tend to focus more on the superficial aspects of "love" is because it is uncomfortable for us to talk about love as if it were a science. We...
• Commented on Lie detectors don't work.....What will?
  My thinking was similar to yours, in that I also believed lie detectors were more reliable than they really are. After reading the psychology text book, I was also shocked to learn that they are, in fact, extremely unreliable. Your...
• Commented on Does Legalizing Abortion Decrease Crime Rates?
  I agree that this is a very interesting theory although it definitely lacks the evidence it needs to be proven. It would be interesting to see what other possibilities there are for the decrease in crime rates. I would also...
• Posted Taylor Swift: A Genius to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
  According to Howard Garner and his theory of multiple intelligences, "people vary in their ability levels across different domains of intellectual skill" (Psychology, pg 322). According to his criteria, Gardner developed eight different intelligences: linguistic, logico-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal,...
• Commented on Alzheimer's, A Growing Problem
  I am surprised to learn that the causes of Alzheimer's are still so widely unknown. I also find it unfortunate that there is relatively little one can do to avoid such a debilitating disease....
• Commented on No, you did not tell me that!
  My parents always tell my sister and I stories of our childhood. After hearing the same stories being told, over and over again, my sister and I would retell these same stories as if we remembered them happening. Though most...
• Commented on Animals Are the Way to Your Heart...or Wallet
  I agree that the commercial is disturbing and somewhat exploitative. However, I feel as though commercials that take a direction similar to the ASPCA commercial receive more consumer feedback than commercials that don't. It's effectiveness, in this case, may override...
• Commented on you don't smoke? you can't be cool!
  These advertisements of products such as cigarettes, while effective, are harmful to consumers. While not directly influencing consumers to purchase and use their product, they indirectly persuade consumers to purchase the "unconditioned stimulus/response" associated with their advertisements and products....
• Commented on Prohibition! on sugar?
  I believe that the article still has validity despite the author's inclusion of emotional reasoning. The hard facts of dramatically increased sugar consumption are too important to ignore. Thinking of how much this increase in consumption affects the lives of...
• Commented on To Spank, Or Not To Spank
  It is interesting to hear how unique everyone's parents' parenting styles are and how they continue to influence behavior today. I know people who were raised in a very authoritarian-style home and who were raised in a very permissive-style home....
• Commented on Sense of Humor: Nature or Nurture?
  I agree with the point of view presented in your blog. I believe that genetics has little to do with what one considers funny. However, certain personality traits associated with BEING funny, such as an outgoing, outspoken demeanor may be...
• Posted "The Bender Ball's" Bending the Truth to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
  Television is littered with commercials and advertisements that say just about anything to sell a product. While these commercials and advertisements are often successful in capturing our attention, they do little to inform us of their products' actual capabilities. "The...
• Posted Silent Torture to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
  Chapter eight focuses on the mechanics of language - answering questions such as how we learn language, how did it come about, and what its importance is to us as a human race as language proves to correlate with thought....