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• Commented on Why Follow the Crowd?
  As hard as it may be for some people to admit, we all conform occasionally. But after learning more about conformity in class and realizing the rate at which many people do it, I think I will be able stick...
• Commented on How to be a good parent
  I definitely can see the importance of understanding the different types of parenting styles. This section of the course would be useful to almost anybody who is thinking about raising a child in the future. Great post and pictures!...
• Commented on College students sleep...?
  I am definitely one of the college kids that does not get very much sleep, so I found this very interesting to learn about also! I always understood that sleep was important, but I did not really know much else...
• Commented on One Against Many
  Everybody has conformed at least a few times in their life, and while I would like to believe that I don't very often, I know that is not the case. The videos we watched in discussion about conformity made me...
• Commented on Parenting Styles for the Future
  My parents raised me with a permissive parenting style and I think it worked well for me, but I am not sure if I would use the same style when I become a parent. I plan on using an authoritative...
• Commented on Will OCD contribute to your success as a doctor?
  I think that it will definitely help you when you become a doctor. In my opinion, it is a good thing anytime a person double checks his or her work consistently, because the chance of making an error decreases dramatically....
• Commented on Our Mind Playing Tricks on Us
  I also found this concept to be very interesting! I never knew that I had as many biases as I actually do. I know many of my biases will last for many years, but at least now I can recognize...
• Commented on In Five Years I Will Remember...
  I hope I remember these principles in 5 years also! The one principle that I already find very useful to understand is correlation vs. causation. It is important to understand, not only in psychology but in everyday life, that there...
• Commented on What I'm Taking With Me
  I completely agree! Ever since I learned about the importance of determining correlation vs. causation, I have started to interpret new information in a different way. It is very beneficial to judge information with this principle not only in psychology,...
• Commented on Placebos in the Future
  I think everybody has experienced the effects of placebos! It is hard to comprehend that simply expecting something to happen may lead us to believe it is actually happening, like your example of taking an Advil. I'm glad that you...
• Commented on Psych 1001
  I also thought that this activity was very interesting. It really showed me the importance of thinking outside the box and finding different ways to use every day items. Good post!...
• Commented on Five Years from Today
  This will definitely be useful later in life! I agree that parenting style plays a big role in a child's personality, so choosing the right one can make a big difference. My parents use a fairly permissive parenting style, which...
• Commented on Does Reality Even Exist?
  This is something that really stuck out to me also. I agree completely with your example using ACT scores. It is comforting to think that doing well on tests guarantees future success, but in reality, that is not true at...
• Posted My Reaction to Attraction to Psy 1001 section 22 Spring 2012
  What truly guides attraction and relationship formation? Before taking this course I had an idea, but nothing to back it up. Why was I attracted to certain girls that my friends weren't? And why were they attracted to certain girls...
• Commented on Who Wants To Be a Smart Guy
  I like how you incorporated a personal experience and connected it to what we have been learning. I agree that "experts" are not always correct, but I think they have earned the right to be wrong because they have experience...
• Posted Being Strict isn't Always the Trick to Psy 1001 section 22 Spring 2012
  It is strange to think about how different my life would be had I been raised with a different parenting style or different parents altogether. It is hard to imagine because I believe my parents raised me the best...
• Commented on Problems in Business
  I think your post is very accurate. There are many problems in business, and a lot of them are caused by people who are power hungry. Many business people get so focused on making money that they do not think...
• Commented on How Did Your Parents Raise You?
  I really liked reading your post and the personal examples you included! My parents allowed me to do what I wanted as long as I did well in school and helped around the house. Instead of setting strict rules and...
• Commented on So who is this Father Figure?
  I thought the facts about fathers that you listed were very interesting. Even with all of the hard work that goes into raising a child, it is good to know that 19 out of 20 fathers would still choose to...
• Commented on Alcoholic: Born or Raised an Addict?
  I like how you applied alcoholism to the nature vs. nurture debate. I think that if somebody has a familial history of alcoholism it may increase the chances of them becoming an alcoholic, but ultimately it is the environment they...
• Commented on Luckily, Mom Isn't Always Right...
  I like the topic choice. Just like you, I have always been told that it was not good to eat before bed, but I never really understood the reasoning behind it. Whenever I ate before bed, I felt as though...
• Commented on Are YOU an Olympic Athlete?
  I really like how you used this topic and applied it to the nature vs. nurture debate. In order to be a professional athlete I think that it takes a combination of both hard work and natural talent. Olympic athletes...
• Posted Option 1 or Option 2? Your Brain Already Made the Decision for You to Psy 1001 section 22 Spring 2012
  I was very confused after watching the BBC video, The Secret You. Towards the end of this movie, an experiment was done to test the human decision making process. An Oxford professor was placed in an fMRI machine where...
• Commented on Identical Twins Living Identical Lives
  I don't think that the story on the twins named "Jim" was trying to prove that all twins live exactly similar lives, as it is a very extreme example, but I thought it was crazy how similar their lives could...
• Posted Identical Twins Living Identical Lives to Psy 1001 section 22 Spring 2012
  The first thing that caught my eye in Chapter 14 was a paragraph on a pair of identical twins separated at birth. Both twins were named "Jim" by their adoptive parents, constructed similar looking tree-houses as children, named their dogs...