Archive for the ‘psychology’ Category
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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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
From Reason magazine
Harvard’s Sendhil Mullainathan and Yale’s Ebonya Washington, in a paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, examined surveys conducted from 1976 to 1996 that asked young adults about their attitudes toward a candidate two years after the candidate’s election. They discovered that those who were eligible to ...
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Saturday, May 6th, 2006
Today I participated in an experiment on the "Psychic Staring Effect," by students in a CU Boulder class, The Edges of Science. Apparently the administrator's beliefs about the phenomenon affect whether it occurs. The professor considered me to be a good skeptic on the issue, and an adequate substitute for ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
In an odd and yet meaningless coincidence, the DC-area "classic rock" station was playing the same song ("The Distance", by Cake) in my car when I left it at 10 AM as when I got back into at more than 12 hours later - almost as if I were listening ...
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Woohoo! I was reading about Robert Cialdini's idea of commitments "growing their own legs", and found that on his entry on Wikipedia had a link to an interview with him that I had posted on my page. It was originally at another site, but was taken down a few ...
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
to jot down before I forget.
First, the July 22 episode of This American Life (Ep. #293) sounds quite good. I caught just a few minutres, but someday, yeah, someday, I'll listen to the rest.
A few years ago I read psychologist Timothy Wilson's Strangers to Ourselves and enjoyed it quite a ...
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
Last week I discovered Princeton University's video archive of its Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures. Some great scholars here, including Jared Diamond, Matt Ridley, Randy Barnett, and Steven Pinker. And hey, Maurice Sendak.
Yesterday I listened to a chapter in Thomas J. Stanley's The Millionaire Mind, where Stanley surveyed hundreds of ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
This is one of the more interesting articles I've read this week. Well, I guess, aside from the advantages of resilient tort law over regulations. I would not be surprised if its author, Jennifer Lee, turns this into a short book. Surely books have been published from ...
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