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• Posted Freudian approach to Homophobia to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  As most of Freudian theories are difficult or impossible to refute, scientists see little importance of the theories when describing human's behaviors or thoughts. However, it is irrefutable that Freud is one of the most influential people in the field...
• Commented on Beauty Standards as Reflection of the Society
  Well I agree that the reason why there are more men than women remembered in history is because women weren’t viewed as equals as men until recently, but I think you missed my point. What I wanted to say is...
• Posted True Learning to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  It was when I was in junior high school that I first learned about Pavlov's classical conditioning. I memorized that reflexes mostly dependent on autonomic nervous system such as knee jerk is unconditional response and salivating when thinking of the...
• Commented on Social Facilitation
  Maybe we all have similar experience of trying to perform well when someone we want to impress is watching. When someone I’m interested in came to watch me play in a sports game, I would want to enhance my performance...
• Commented on Easy to change your attitude?
  You’re right. Changing attitudes can be really difficult. And I think older people seem to have more difficulty in changing lifelong thoughts or behaviors. One of my favorite TV shows back in my country is about correcting bad behaviors or...
• Commented on An Ethical Dilemma that We Must Address
  Have you seen the movie, “GATTACA (1997)”? The film is about genetic issues. In the near future, every baby’s genetic information is collected right after birth. It tells physical flaws, intelligence and even estimated lifespan. The protagonist is born with...
• Commented on Paul Ekman's other study on the universality of facial expressions
  Wow, first I want to say that I’m jealous of you for having a grandfather who can give a great influence on you. And it’s good to know the more accurate information of the study on universality of facial expressions....
• Commented on What Divorce Does to Kids
  In my country divorce is still viewed with a conservative perspective. Lots of parents say they try not to break their marriage because they are concerned about the negative impact divorce could give to children. But your writing suggests that...
• Commented on Do lie detectors...lie?
  There are a number of TV series about detecting crimes such as “Criminal minds (2005- )” and “Mentalist (2008- )”. When watching these shows, it isn’t hard to see FBI agents or detectives using lie detectors to find out whether...
• Posted Beauty Standards as Reflection of the Society to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  According to the textbook, it is an undeniable truth that physical attraction is important when choosing our romantic partners, but it's especially important to men, as a survey suggests that they pay more attention to looks in women than women...
• Commented on Here, Eat this tapeworm.
  This is the most shocking way of losing weight I’ve ever seen. I think it is no use to ask those people suffering from eating disorder the consequence of the parasites growing bigger in their stomach. Their motivation to have...
• Commented on Contact Comfort
  Harlow’s study is very interesting in that many people might think food is one of the most important things for survival and as human infants require longer term of nourishment from parents, infants would attach to those who provide food....
• Commented on Liar Liar
  About two years ago I read a book about nonverbal cues which can display people’s thought without their conscious notice. The book was written by an ex-FBI agent Joe Navarro. I remember that people who can’t hear are likely to...
• Commented on Double Trouble
  I was born and grew up in South Korea, so my mother language is, of course, Korean. I lived in Texas when I was six years old about a year. I learned in Linguistics that there is a “critical period”...
• Commented on Erasing Memories: Is it possible?
  According to the textbook people retrieve memories better when they are in the same physiological or psychological state as the memories were encoding and this is called “state-dependent learning”. Whenever I feel depressed, all the bad memories including the failures...
• Commented on Get "noticeably different skin!" Or not...
  I agree with you. South Korean women are very interested in having a flawless skin but most of the commercials of skin care products focus on showing what a beautiful skin the model of the product has and give a...
• Commented on What happens when we go to sleep?
  Perhaps this explains the sleep paralysis, which is a state when people are unable to move their body after falling asleep. There are five stages of sleep and among them REM sleep shows brain waves which resemble those of...
• Posted Hot Debate over Autism Diagnosis to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  American Psychiatric Association has announced that diagnostic manual of Autism will alter its criteria rigorously at the end of this year and hot debate over the issues is attracting people's attention. Fred R. Volkmar, M.D. of Yale Child Study...
• Commented on If Athletes can smoke, so can we.
  You should see the very first episode of TV series “Mad Men”. The episode shows how Don Draper, the protagonist who is the man of talent in the advertisement industry, tries to write an advertising copy after “The Readers’ Digest”...
• Commented on Is being a supertaster really 'super'?
  The first thing that came to my mind after I read the article was sensory adaptation. Can a supertaster be less sensitive by gradational exposure to various tastes? People from countries where spicy foods are common eat hot foods without...
• Commented on Unconscious thought
  The video is very interesting. It is astonishing to know how each region of the brain is sophisticatedly specialized serving different role. The students learned during lecture on biological psychology that visual stimuli are divided into basic segments and sent...
• Commented on Blog # 2: Adrenaline
  I think constant activation of the sympathetic nervous system means a person is likely to be very tensed up and agitated in everyday life. As the arousal of the sympathetic nervous system inhibits saliva production and slows digestion, I think...
• Commented on Raising a Child Gender-Neutrally: Can it work?
  I read a book on women’s studies called “Women and Society (2011)” and the most important contention the author was trying to suggest is that gender is a social product. Compared to the concept of “gender”, “sex” is a biological...
• Commented on Acetycholine- finding a cure to Alzheimer's?
  There was a popular movie about a young, beautiful woman who loses her memory because of Alzheimer’s in South Korea eight years ago. Recently there was a TV drama also about a young woman, who was in her thirties, loses...
• Commented on Acetycholine- finding a cure to Alzheimer's?
  There was a popular movie about a young, beautiful woman who loses her memory because of Alzheimer’s in South Korea eight years ago. Recently there was a TV drama also about a young woman, who was in her thirties, loses...
• Posted Blog #1 Emotion and motivation to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  Could emotion and motivation be the criteria that distinguish humans from animals? According to American ethologist Marc Bekoff in his book "Animals matter (2007)" animals not only feel joy and anger but also can sympathize or lament. The most...