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• Commented on What Does Your Personality Say About You?
  ^ I find your experience with the effect of the transition from high school to college on extroversion to be interesting as I have had the exact opposite experience. I was much quieter in high school, but now I am...
• Commented on Remembering to Remember
  I also thought the memory unit was very interesting and useful. My memory isn't very good sometimes, but based on what we learned in class, I now know some ways to help me improve my memory....
• Commented on Using Psychology Moving Forward
  I agree that the inkblot test was very interesting. It was a very clever personality test to create because people can't manipulate the answers to what they think the right answers are, instead of answering honestly, but there are no...
• Commented on What's Wrong With Red Ink?
  This was a very interesting entry, I had never heard of that red ink idea before, but it makes sense since red usually symbolizes blood. Stemming off of cari0061's comment, I think it is a good idea to get familiar...
• Commented on How can you not?
  I also agree. Those five principles were repeated throughout the reading of each chapter in the text book, which made it really hard to forget. Since we learned it so long ago and then it was continually repeated throughout the...
• Posted What Does Your Personality Say About You? to PSY 1001 Section 02-03 Spring 2012
  Throughout the semester, my favorite topic was personality. Learning about the "Big Five" personality traits was really interesting. It really surprised me how accurate a simple personality test was at describing my personality. I was placed in the "scholars" group...
• Commented on Is Being Gay A Choice?
  I agree that homosexuality is not a choice. While the LGBT community has made a lot of progress in fighting for equal rights, they still are not treated completely equal to everybody else. In the past, homosexuals were treated very...
• Commented on Harmful Ideals
  This was a very interesting post and I think it is very relevant to today's American culture compared to others. "Social norms" seem to heavily influence people to conform to those norms. For example, in some cultures, being very pale...
• Commented on Charlie Bit my Finger- What makes an Online Video go viral?
  I agree with the point you make that the reason people like those types of videos is because of emotional arousal, but I think that idea can also be applied to many other aspects of life. Since people remember and...
• Commented on Boredom Made Me a Lie Dector
  This post was very interesting. I have noticed that I sometimes just get a feeling that somebody is lying when talking to them, but I don't know why I think that. It's quite possible that many of these cues led...
• Commented on Is Cultural Difference really matters in our decision making?
  This was quite interesting. The data presented in this post contradicts what I thought happens. I thought that since people in Eastern and Western countries grow up in such different cultures, they think differently, which causes them to also make...
• Commented on Suggestive memory technique...on your high school villain.
  Very interesting post. I've seen this concept in action, and it's quite amusing. My friends and I will do this to each other from time to time just to joke around, because it is funny when they say they remember...
• Posted Divorce? It may not be as bad as you think. to PSY 1001 Section 02-03 Spring 2012
  I have always thought that divorce can have a very negative impact on children and cause emotional problems throughout their lives. I know people who grew up with divorced parents and were very angry and bitter about it. On the...
• Commented on Dreams: A figment of the imagination or a visual pathway into the future?
  I don't believe that dreams are predicting the future, mostly because I have had some really strange dreams of things that would not happen in real life, like my home being invaded by dinosaurs. However, a lot of my dreams...
• Commented on Human Meat
  At first I found this add to be a bit disturbing, but it definitely catches your attention and gets you to think about what the purpose for the advertisement is. It is very bold and sends a strong message to...
• Commented on Don't Wake up in a Roadside Ditch
  I think that commercial is very amusing, though it probably doesn't make people immediately think that they should switch to DirecTV. The commercial itself I think is meant to draw the attention of viewers by being so absurd that they...
• Commented on Bilingualism- Advantageous or no?
  I think being bilingual is very advantageous. This is especially true in such a diverse community, like here on campus, where several different languages are spoken. Being able to speak more than one language can allow you to not only...
• Commented on Parlez-vous français? O Español? O Italiano? Oder Deutsch?
  I am not bilingual, but I have taken three years of French in high school and junior high. I took two years of French in a row, then had to take a year off because of schedule conflicts, and then...
• Commented on Alzheimer's dise...wait what was i talking about
  I don't have any personal experience with Alzheimer's, but many of my relatives, including my grandparents, are very forgetful and their memories are worsening. It's difficult to tell if their memory problems are just caused by aging, or if it...
• Commented on "Dancing in the Dark"
  I think that clip is pretty accurate of what sleepwalking can be like. I have sleepwalked three times before, and I don't remember anything that happened while I was sleepwalking. I only know that I did it because of what...
• Commented on
  I think it's pretty cool how this can happen. It has happened to me many times. My little sister has asked me before why the moon is so big, but I didn't know how to answer her question. It's interesting...
• Commented on How to train your... children?
  That is very interesting. However, I feel like it would be unethical to try to train people. The decisions and actions people make are part of what makes each person unique, and by training them, I think that would take...
• Posted Nature or Nurture? Maybe It's Both. to PSY 1001 Section 02-03 Spring 2012
  There may be a new theory that solves the debate of nature vs. nurture. On sciencedaily.com, an article called Beyond Nature Vs. Nurture: Parental Guidance Boosts Child's Strengths, Shapes Development describes a new theory that may explain how nature...
• Posted You're Only Fooling Yourself to PSY 1001 Section 02-03 Spring 2012
  Have you ever gone to the doctor for an injury, but were told it was just minor and there was nothing they could do for you, yet you seemed to be in less pain afterwards? If you have, you're not...