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• Commented on Have you had a demon visit you at night???
  This is really interesting. From your blog, it seems like everyone you know who experienced sleep paralysis experienced it after some sort of stressful event (your mom being away from her husband, and your brothers being in a fight). I...
• Posted Sherlock Holmes - A Man of Extremes to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  Sherlock Holmes: the greatest detective of all time. Using the Big Five traits to analyze his personality, it's easy to get a grip on what makes his character so riveting. He would score very, very high for Openness to Experience....
• Commented on Say YES to the Dress
  Great application to pop culture! It's crazy that the bride is getting married before meeting her fiance. It'd be interesting to know how that marriage works out. Since there was no proximity in their relationship, I wonder if they'll have...
• Commented on Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
  I think the media presentations of lie detectors as infallible have really affected public belief in their accuracy. It's really interesting to learn that lie detectors don't work as well as they're portrayed! Also, 55% accuracy? I guess that in...
• Commented on Middle Child Syndrome
  The birth order theory is interesting! I wonder if historically, there might be an issue of causation vs. correlation. Maybe because society expected firstborns to be more intelligent and a better leader, the family might expose them to resources that...
• Posted Alzheimer's: The Dementia Enigma to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  Alzheimer's Disease is the most common form of dementia, associated with tangles and plaques in the brain. Affecting memory, thinking, and behavior, it starts off slowly. At first, a patient has mild memory loss - they may repeat themselves,...
• Commented on Chapter Nine: Intelligence and IQ
  I've always found IQ tests to be a bit bunk. Like you said in your blog, IQ lowers over the summer and tends to be higher with more school. It seems that, if anything, IQ tends to be a measure...
• Commented on The Terrifying (and Beautiful) Truth that We Can't Even Trust Ourselves
  It's really disconcerting that our brains can't be trusted absolutely. I remember listening to an episode of Radiolab and hearing that the more times a memory is recalled, the more our mind changes it. If we can't even trust our...
• Commented on The Ames Room Illusion
  Cool video! It's awesome that they used it in LOTR. I wonder what other psychology tricks Hollywood uses in films....
• Commented on What Adults Can't Hear..Are the rumors true?
  I like that you tested it at school! I remember that back when I was in middle school, some annoying kid in my grade played the tone during class to bug the other students. The teacher wouldn't stop him because...
• Posted Chapter 13: Social Psychology to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  I was assigned to read Chapter 13, Social Psychology: study of how people's behavior, beliefs, and attitudes are influenced by others. One thing interesting highlight was the Fundamental Attribution Error. Basically, people think of their own actions as being...