Archive for the ‘Psychology’ Category
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The Illusion of Dolphin Sex
24 Jul 2011You’re probably familiar with the Young Girl-Old Woman illusion, which was first seen on a German postcard in 1888. Or…
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Don’t trust your peripherals
10 Jul 2011The brain’s perceptual systems are very easily fooled. You’re probably already familiar with the Thatcher Effect (where oddities that are…
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Level Up +2 Psychology
07 Jan 2011A little over five years ago I had a crazy notion – I was going to study psychology part time. …
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“HE DIDN’T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE.”
07 Jun 2010Image by ShedBOy^ via Flickr You Are Not so Smart is a blog about the many ways we delude ourselves…
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The Original Sims
05 Jun 2008Alter Ego was a video game released by Activision in 1986. The brainchild of psychologist Dr. John Favero it allowed…
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Elbow Patches, Redux
25 Feb 2008Image via Wikipedia This is the time of the year when the excitement of a new set of books and…
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One elbow patch
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The Yoof of Today
24 Aug 2006Every year the mindset list looks at the world through the eyes of the current set of entrants to Universities.…
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Our House is a very very very nice house…
13 Dec 2005Click here to view my house One of these little tests that claims to tell your personality depending on…
