Archive for the ‘psychology’ Category
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
From George Will's Newsweek review of The Cult of the Presidency, by Gene Healy:
If you can name it, presidents are responsible for it. The name for this is infantilization. "The average American," said President Richard Nixon, "is just like the child in the family—you give him some responsibility and he ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Update to: What warrants explaining: equality or inequality?
Consider what Arthur Brooks wrote in his recent post at the Freakonimics blog:
In my book I argue that conservatives are more optimistic about the future than liberals are, and believe in each individual’s ability to get ahead on the basis of achievement.Liberals are ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
I recently finished reading a book about this called Investment Madness, by John R. Nofsinger, an Associate Professor of Finance at Washington State University. It's very clear, well-organized, well-referenced, and a quick read. The publisher has put the first chapter on-line here. From the ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Last night Liz and I watched an episode of Darren Brown's Mind Control on the SciFi Channel. There were three remarkable segments in this show. In one of them he used his skill in detecting lies to navigate an obstacle course, and (if you believe him) was confident ...
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
This morning I read the beginning of Arnold Kling's column on TCSDaily, and where he had a link to Edge.org. the website of the Edge Foundation:The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for ...
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Sunday, November 5th, 2006
What I do isn't psychic. What I do isn't supernatural. It has absolutely no relation whatsoever to those other realms, whether or not they even exist. - Marc Salem
My friend Andrew told me about this show, and I highly recommend the May 2005 60 Minutes segment (transcript), where Salem repeatedly ...
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Tonight I attended was the third of eight Level 1 Improvisational Comedy classes given my the Bovine Metropolis Theater. During the first two weeks most of the exercises involved work with imaginary objects. For example, we'd envision ourselves eating at our favorite restaurant, doing an everyday activity like ...
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
This is a manual cross-post to my AllConsuming.net account, where I track my reading:
Peter McWilliams is certainly a hero of mine for his prolific writing and political activism for civil liberties. This book interested me as both a memoir and a profile of the psychology of cults and indoctrination. ...
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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
A couple weeks ago at I had the pleasure of playing against, and pitching to, Eric Cornell (Nobel Prize, Physics 2001) in the Staff Council Softball League at the University of Colorado. After once again experiencing his down-to-Earth enthusiasm, his volunteering to be the umpire for the first inning ...
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
Today I saw a guy at the University of Colorado Engineering Center wearing the t-shirt shown to the left. Contra was a game for the original Nintendo Entertainment System of the late 1980s. Within seconds of seeing it, I started to play the games theme music, and I ...
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