February 25th was a very special day, for it was the day the first article was posted on GenerallyThinking.com! Since then, I’ve made 110 posts to the site including this one, and the majority are in-depth, 1,000 word+ articles rather than single-serving internet distractions.
The blog is now reasonably popular and attracts over 10,000 unique [...]

I admit, this has nothing to do with psychology whatsoever, it’s just one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen! Although it’s interesting how it’s targeted at men by appearing to be targeted to women.

The new Old Spice ad – The man your man could smell like!

I’ve removed the no follow tag from comment links. This means that if you’re a blogger yourself, your URL in your comment link will pass link juice to your site.
However, comments that do not adhere to the following rules will not make it through moderation:

Add something to the discussion; “Nice post” and [...]

…through the site recently, I apologise but the contact form has been down for some reason. Not sure exactly what happened, but I moved the form onto a blog page a little while ago, and I may have cocked up when copying the code across or something.
Sorry about that. If you ever need [...]

If you’re a psychology student, or if you’ve ever read a psychology journal article, you’ll know exactly what psychobabble is.
Psychobabble: An unnecessarily labyrinthine subsection of a specialist psychological publication, distinguishable by virtue of its excessive utilisation of elaborate expression and technical jargon.
(See what I did there?)
Have you ever been reading a technical paper [...]

Here’s a pretty interesting site I recently came across: TweetPsych.  It uses two linguistic analysis algorithms to pull out patterns in peoples’ Tweets.  The algorithms are the Regressive Imagery Dictionary (RID), and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC).  RID I’ve never heard of, to my immediate memory, but LIWC we came across in the How [...]

I have decided to relax the copyright restrictions on everything I’ve written for this site.  Everything I’ve written is now available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.  Which states you are free:

To Share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
To Remix - to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

Attribution — You must attribute the work [...]

For about 6 total weeks now, I’ve been using the Adgitize service to increase the traffic coming into this blog.  I spend hours researching and writing these articles, so as you can imagine I’m quite keen for people to actually read them.  Adgitize has been an effective way to bring visitors to Generally Thinking, to [...]

This is the first in a new concept for a category – rants.  Less official than a manifesto, but more impassioned than a rhetoric, the rant is the most unruly of the the monologue brothers.  It’s a polemic with ‘roid rage.  It’s always useful to remember that a rant, by definition, is one-sided.  Some people [...]