The Misconception: Your opinions are the result of years of rational, objective analysis.
The Truth: Your opinions are the result of years of paying attention to information which confirmed what you believed while ignoring information which challenged your preconceived notions.
What You Touch Influences Your Attitudes
The article was featured in Business Week and is based on studies found in the June 25 issue of Sciences Magazine. The texture or heaviness of an object that is touched can influence the way people perceive things. One of the studies involves…
How to tell when something just isn’t science… some might seem pretty obvious, but others are quite helpful!
I have Google Alerts set up to notify me any time there’s an article on emotional labor and this was the link I got today… hard to tell what this source really is, but they have quotes from Hochschild, a definite leader in the topic, so it’s worth checking out…
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The difference between criticism and contempt is that criticism targets what a person does, while contempt is aimed at the person’s character; comments intentionally designed to insult and cause pain in ways only an intimate partner could know.
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John Gottman (via fcukuu)
The evolutionary psychology of war
“Nothing too shocking here for students of evolutionary psychology but it’s always interesting to see real world examples of how our shared behavior. There is a new book by Sebastian Junger called War, in which he recounts how men do not fight for larger ideological goals (eg. “a safer Iraq”, “finding Bin Laden”) but instead they can overcome fears because “they’re more concerned about their brothers than what happens to themselves individually”. Here’s Junger on Good Morning America, and more on group cohesiveness” with Jon Stewart here.
Barbara Ehrenreich critiques positive thinking — and blames some of our problems on it. There’s a lot of truth here, and it’s also entertaining to watch.
Read the comments…
In the news by Karen Franklin PhD: Race, class, and self defense
(The photo is the protesters of the protesters - basically, the people who are advocating for the victim of the police shooting in San Francisco where the cop said he thought he was or meant to fire his taser.)
I love the legal stuff + psychology combination.
The lines below connect raters to each of the measures they take into account. Notice how few measures are shared by two or more raters. That indicates a lack of agreement among them on what defines quality. Much of the emphasis is on “input measures” such as student selectivity, faculty-student ratio, and retention of freshmen. Except for graduation rates, almost no “outcome measures,” such as whether a student comes out prepared to succeed in the work force, are used.
» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)
Awesomeness. Kind of want to post a link to this on some people’s walls…
