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• Posted Birth Defects: "Dating, sex can be daunting for youths with disabilities" to Leadership, You, and Your Community
  This article actually made me pretty emotional while reading it. It pained me to realize just how much stereotyping goes beyond the racial slurs and sexual identities. Our generation even stereotypes those with disabilities, which when you think about it,...
• Posted Birth Defects: Pfeiffer to Leadership, You, and Your Community
  I recommend that you watch the video before you keep reading... I personally found this video really inspiring. Pfeiffer, three-and-a-half at the time, is such a sweetheart and is so innocent. He has zero shame in his deformity and...
• Posted Birth Defects: "peoples self esteem had gone." to Leadership, You, and Your Community
  "In third year when we all hit about 15, none of the girls... I'd say there was a maximum of three or four in the class that were actually happy to go swimming. Because nobody was comfortable with wearing those...
• Posted Birth Defects: "Many women undergoing the initial ultrasound are wrongly told their baby is healthy only to later discover it has a disorder." to Leadership, You, and Your Community
  "Many women undergoing the initial ultrasound are wrongly told their baby is healthy only to later discover it has a disorder." I feel like this happened to my mother, and that in my opinion is not fair. I understand science...
• Posted Birth Defects: Down Syndrome to Leadership, You, and Your Community
  Okay now I'm even more confused than before... For my "artistic representation" I wanted to use a photo to show the class exactly what I've been discussing these past few weeks. Well, while scanning through various photos on google images,...
• Posted Birth Defects: $103 million will do the trick to Leadership, You, and Your Community
  Searching for a quality news piece gets all the more difficult, but I found an interesting commonality among several articles that kind of struck a nerve. Hospitals and government facilities are paying off families who's newborn began to suffer from...
• Posted Birth Defects: "I was just born like this. It just kind of happened. I'm no different." to Leadership, You, and Your Community
  My whole life, I've never blamed my birth defects on my parents. It just didn't make any sense to see it as their fault — my dad quit smoking, my mom never took any weird medication or drank or anything,...
• Posted Birth Defects: "she didn't plan on becoming a great pianist" to Leadership, You, and Your Community
  I decided to browse YouTube for my artistic piece, for I feel as if a video would best represent my personal connection to this topic (more on why later!) I came across this video of a young Korean woman playing...
• Posted Birth Defects: "60 percent happens for no known reason" to Leadership, You, and Your Community
  This week I've decided to narrow my research of birth defects down to what specifically affects me -- hand deformities. I came across an article by "The Nation," a Sri Lankan newspaper, that discussed various types of hand deformities and...
• Posted Birth Defects: Is Potassium the Problem? to Leadership, You, and Your Community
  I was researching a news article from The Daily Herald and came across a piece linking potassium intake to birth defects. Emily Bates, a profesor at Brigham Young University, discovered that the potassium channel in our bodies has great impact...
• Posted Birth Defects to Leadership, You, and Your Community
  As someone who is studying psychology, and later in life will be requesting others to be shameless, vulnerable, and open with me, I decided to test my own will to fulfill these needs. I want the ability to speak from...
• Commented on Not-So Prosocial Behavior
  This is a sad truth that happens all the time. The most cliche example would be when many kids and young adults are bystanders of bullying and abuse. We know its happening, we see it all the time, but yet...
• Commented on Social Facilitation
  You caught me, this is so true. Relating to your example, I work in retail right now, and I know for a fact that I go "balls to the wall" when managers are around. I usually perform with 95% of...
• Commented on Altruism: Inherent or Learned?
  I agree with many points in your argument. Its a safe bet to say that most of the time we help others because we feel empathetic. But other times it could be completely out of self-interest. For instance, at times...
• Commented on Personality tests galore
  I took this test once in my leadership course in the Fall. I personally think this test is kind of flawed because it forces you to pick a side, there's no middle ground for you to feel equally among two...
• Commented on Genetics of Social Psychology
  We just talked about this a few weeks ago in my bio class! I personally believe that exposing information from our DNA to anyone besides the possessor or the FBI (under extreme security) is unethical. If traits in our DNA...
• Commented on Birth Order
  I find this study to be very interesting. Birth order does seem to matter, but I personally see it as a combination of factors. For instance, the first born was more than likely conceived when his/her parents were at a...
• Commented on Stupid Intelligence
  I personally believe that more colleges should take into account all three areas of intelligence proposed by the triarchic model. Your SAT/ACT can only tell you so much about one's "book smarts" but it really says nothing about who we...
• Posted What is love? Baby don't hurt me... to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  You know you sang the title of this blog and the rest of the lyrics :) But really, what is love? I know that I haven't really figured it out, but many psychologists such as Robert Sternberg believe that different...
• Commented on And Let There Be Light! Ho Ho Ho
  Haha I love this post. I feel as if in our generation, we are very privileged with our technology and other advances that we forget how to be creative sometimes, because we're so used to having everything simplified and ready...
• Commented on Blog #1- Chapter 11
  I find body language nerd-ily fascinating. One can sense a lot of information about someone's emotions just by looking at that person's eyes and eyebrow position, or how they carry their posture, or certain mannerisms that they have. We can...
• Commented on You can train a fish?
  This is pretty amazing! Like you said, if we can train fish to do this, what else can we train other animals to do? In our modern day we have trained many animals to do numerous things to help benefit...
• Commented on Famous IQ's
  I also found this data quite interesting, and a little humorous. Many of the presidents who didn't fulfill their duties to par (or often criticized by the media, cough cough George Bush) scored lower in IQ versus other presidents. As...
• Commented on Who's your daddy?
  I completely agree that the role of both parents are significant for the upbringing of a child, however as you mentioned this is not always the luxury to all relationships. What I personally believe is that it does not really...
• Commented on Does nothing really taste as good as skinny looks?
  I personally believe that an eating disorder can arise from a multitude of factors, all of which you have mentioned in your blog. In our generation we have had celebrity role models who are unreasonably thin, promoting some sort of...
• Posted "Oh, my, God. Becky, look at her butt." to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  Many of us know this famous song lyric from the intro of Sir-Mix-A-Lot's Baby Got Back (or in part of Drake's The Motto). But, have we ever noticed that we make these kind of judgements all the time? As mentioned...
• Posted Your body said whaaat? to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  Makeup blog for Week 9: Emotion Have you every noticed that you can tell a lot about a person based on their body language? Humans tend to give off many signals such as non-verbal cues that can let us tap...
• Commented on When I count to ten, you will bark like a dog
  First off, love your headline -- it grabbed my attention right away! Secondly, I as well have experienced some sort of hypnosis at my senior all-night party. The hypnotist requested us to fall into a relaxed and sleepy state of...
• Commented on Get "noticeably different skin!" Or not...
  Your blog proves to be quite true. Infomercials typically associate an "ideal celeb-reality" figure to draw in our attention. And as you said, we generally fall for the "if _____ uses this, then I will get ______ result!" theorem, which...
• Posted Are You in Control? to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  When you make decisions, are you consciously aware of them? Most of us would say yes, but have you ever thought that possibly your decisions have already been made for you by your subconscious self? After watching the video "The...