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• Commented on Freud: the Man, the Myth, the Thought Provoker
  Freud's psychological works have philosophical roots much deeper than people realize, which is why it is so highly debated. I have spent time finding parallelisms between the works of different theorists, philosophers, psychologists, religions, and sciences, and Freud is using...
• Commented on Sleep Is Everything
  I actually have experimented with nearly the opposite this semester. I saw that circadian rhythms may differ innately from person to person. I have found that both a 30-hour and a 36-hour schedule work for me. I feel better staying...
• Posted A Prisoner or a Free Man? to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
  While looking up an article idea for the third blog, I ran across an article about experiments that showed psychology experiments that "proved humanity is doomed". While many of the experiment were looked over in the conformity discussion session, we...
• Commented on Beauty in the eye of the Beholder
  First off, I must disagree with your examples. Beauty begins and ends with Zooey Deschanel. Yum. Next, I agree that the subjective aspect of beauty that has been perceived since Shakespeare. The difference between a harmonious representation of reality and...
• Commented on Is Chocolate a Sign of True Love?
  Barthes introduced an ideology of mythology that involved this type of reattribution of cultural identity to a seemingly meaningless object. Anything from iPods to Oakleys to 5 gum are culturally defined by over-the-top claims and an aura of cool about...
• Commented on One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Stoned Fish
  I've amended the blog to explain that part further. Thanks for the help with that, and I completely agree with your worrisome sentiment. I wasn't on any medications until I got to college, but when I got here, my depression,...
• Posted One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Stoned Fish to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
  Today, more than 27 million Americans are taking anti-depressants. From Celexa to Zoloft, anti-depressants are going through the population at higher rates than ever before. However, the body doesn't process and decompose the entire dosage. The medication that isn't processed...
• Commented on Lose 50 Pounds in 3 Days!
  Lose, not loose. Change your title before it gets graded. Truth in advertising is laughable with nearly any weight loss system. I have seen people mess up their body chemistry going on Atkins or other instant reward diets, and it's...
• Commented on Little Alchemy and Little Processing
  There's over two hundred elements that are rather complicated. The game gets harder because the elements that you want to make aren't there or some other elements are obscure. Slight spoiler: My initial goal after getting a few elements was...
• Posted Little Alchemy and Little Processing to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
  Little Alchemy is a unique game that challenges the player's reasoning and processing. In the game, the player starts with the basic elements of fire, water, earth, and air. From here, he or she combines these elements to form...
• Commented on Monkey in the Middle
  The control is the monkey doing nothing apathetic. The monkey chooses a mother, and the mother chosen is the variable. If there were a live monkey, then it wouldn't be choice between nourishment and comfort. That's a different experiment....
• Commented on Catch Them If You Can!
  Polygraphs are a psychological torture device in many ways. In certain scenarios, a person wishing to maintain their rights will have that brought into question by simply refusing to take part in an inconclusive and often useless test. Other people...
• Commented on Am I a Good Parent??
  Regardless of the style of parenting, there are always children that benefit and suffer. Authoritarian parents can produce successful children, but often times, the children wind up unhappy. Authoritative parents might wind up with children that are highly functional and...
• Commented on The Ability to Read Minds
  Clearly, the lack of brain function in the frontal lobe indicates that more brain function could be usable for most activities. For me, this idea has already been influencing my studying habits. I know that if I only study by...
• Commented on The Chipotle Manipulation
  Admittedly, I should have put deeper research into some aspects of my argument; namely, I completely missed McDonalds divesting. Even if a small part of my argument was not aptly researched, I feel that you are denying the antecedent. My...
• Commented on The Chipotle Manipulation
  The ad infers that naturally raised pork is the cleanest and best for America, but in actuality, it is not. The reason for the confinement housing used by most other chains is because it produces better meat. The reason meat...
• Posted The Chipotle Manipulation to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
  Watch the ad here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfSGt6rHos The use of advertisement servers as the foundation for modern television. Clearly, without advertisement, television would be a much different arena. Of the many types of advertisement, some of the most impactful ads center around...
• Commented on Prohibition! on sugar?
  I disagree with the an assumption made by the article that states that people who are overweight are at risk health-wise. Adding a healthy muscle tone to a usually lean stature skews a significant number of people from the "healthy"...
• Commented on "Who IS that?"
  One strange aspect of this experiment is that humans and chimpanzees are more closely related to gorillas than they are to chimpanzees. Seeing as gorillas share many of the same characteristics as the other great apes, I don't see how...
• Commented on The Brain as a Ticket to Travel.......out of your body
  The "Out-of-body" experience is mentioned in many different ways. Obviously, the phenomena can be reproduced through the currents and shocks that the article talk about, but the metaphysical aspect of the situation is not a result of the current. The...
• Commented on Bike Helmets, should they be mandatory?
  With the low availability of public transportation available in Minneapolis, I would disagree with implementing a law that would bring about unnecessary fines to a lot of commuters that just need to get from A to B. People know the...
• Commented on Was President Bush Really THAT Dumb?
  I agree with the misjudging of intelligence when it comes to many standardized tests. In fact, comparing the two most widely used aptitude tests, the SAT and ACT, scores do vary quite a bit for students. Doing very well on...
• Commented on I Can Read Your Mind...I Think
  By simple taking this test while knowing the likelihood of each of the cards in the deck might influence the results. If 5-out-of-25 is the statistical average and a taker is truly skeptical of the test, then they might be...
• Commented on Zombies Really Do Come Out at Night
  Regularly shutting down communication throughout the brain seems strange in terms of dreaming. Most strikingly, if we are unable to relay information across parts of the brain, then dreaming should be a much more difficult process. Visualizing, interpreting, and remembering...
• Commented on A Teenager's...Accidental...Secret Weapon
  I disagree with the application of this technique. If this were regularly used, teenagers could becomed conditioned away from a store or brand by associating it with the high pitched frequency. This, in turn, hurts customer loyalty and business expansion....
• Commented on Sugar, Spice and Everything....Not Nice..?
  During high school, we did an experiment in AP Biology that tested whether or not each student was a non-taster, a semi-taster, or a supertaster. During that time, we also discovered a correlation between people that are supertasters and people...
• Commented on Pigeons playing Ping-Pong: fact or fiction?
  Using animals as weapons delivery systems was common near the end of WWII. In fact, the Russians had trained their dogs to attack tanks using the same methods that Skinner used to train his pigeons. The training 'shaped' their dogs...