Most people have quite the wrong idea about what open-mindedness is. I’ve been told by people who believe in things that are not well supported by evidence, that I am closed-minded for not believing in them. Ghosts, for example, or the existence of a soul. Am I closed-minded because I hold back on accepting things [ Read More ]
Archive for April, 2010
As many of you know, I’m in the process of writing a book: a psychology study guide to be precise. One of the things it will cover is time management, planning, productivity; that sort of thing. While researching this chapter (the last one to do I might add), I remembered an interesting study …
Categories: Psychology
Another love song translated by escorpio123, who describes Nino Bravo as “the master”. I think he might be right, he has a great voice but alas died in a car accident before he was able to make the massive impact that his powerful voice surely would have done, given enough time. This song, Noelia, is [ Read More ]
Categories: Uncategorized
Here’s how you can write the Spanish accented letters with a Mac keyboard. First, locate the Option key. It either has: The word “OPTION” written on it (dead give-away) A symbol which looks a bit like a stretched out Z with another horizontal line at the top Or it might be the same key as [ Read More ]
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Here’s a fascinating little video about how the “lone nut” becomes a leader. We often think of leaders as being the key points to the creation of a movement, but Derek Sivers here argues it’s the followers that matter – without them, you’re still just the lone nut! Some interesting ideas here about conformity and [ Read More ]
Categories: Humour, Psychology
This is a guest post by Kitty Holman. A very recent study conducted at Baylor University and published in a new journal founded in January 2010, Social Psychological and Personality Science, suggests that Christian religious concepts may have the inadvertent effect of making people more disposed to racism, specifically with prejudice against Blacks. The study, [ Read More ]
Categories: Psychology
Important note. Psychology has long been considered a ‘soft’ science, due to the fact that psychological constructs cannot be measured as accurately as objects in motion, for example. But researchers have now uncovered what they believe to be a behavioural “law” which has been used to successfully explain – and predict – human behaviour. …
Categories: Humour
