February 2012
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fuur-elise asked: Hi, I filled out that jealousy survey and I thought it was really interesting. will we ever get to see what results you got? :)
vivalaveronicaa asked: Why do you think that some of the most intelligent people have eccentric behavior?
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The Dubious Science of Online Dating.
Happy Valentine’s Day.
HOW scientific are the “matching algorithms” of online-dating Web sites?
For a fee, many dating sites will collect data about you, crunch the numbers and match you with someone who, as eHarmony puts it, has been “prescreened for deep compatibility with you across 29 dimensions.” Sites like Chemistry, PerfectMatch and GenePartner make similar scientific-sounding...
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Get Your Facebook Profile Ready for Valentine’s...
What should you do to get ready for Valentine’s Day? According to YourTango, you should delete your ex-partner from your Facebook friends list. They have even designated a day for doing it; February 13th is Break Up With Your Ex Day, and this means deleting, blocking, untagging, and unfollowing your ex from Facebook and other social media.
“Creeping” or “facestalking” an ex-partner is fairly...
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"HOW I GOT BANNED FROM PSYCHOLOGY TODAY’S FACEBOOK...
So, I found this interesting because:
1) …I really don’t like PsychologyToday anymore; after taking Introduction to Clinical Psychology, I realized how…um…biased they are. In a way. If you like it, that’s cool. But personally, I’m not into it anymore.
2) …a popular psychology magazine refuses to accept facts PROVED by psychology research. What?
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maxiieabrigo asked: I love your blog! It's very understandable you should really write a book about psychological matters ! :D
January 2012
58 posts
I just wanted to warn everyone...
…that school is starting up for me again tomorrow, and I’ll probably be blogging less again- I’m sorry!!!!!! I’ll be busy with classes, doing research (I’m an undergraduate research assistant for 3 different doctors in the psychology department at my school), and helping teach classes (one psychology course and one random course for freshmen). I’m also in charge of making the yearbook for my co-ed...
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT).
Some facts:
introduced by Morgan and Murray in 1935
purpose is to reveal patients’ basic personality characteristics through the interpretation of their imaginative productions in response to a series of pictures.
designed to show central conflicts, attitudes, goals, and repressed material, however it actually produces material that is a collage of these as well as situational influences,...
el3phants-0n-crack asked: you have no idea how much in love i am with this blog. psychology attracts my interest in such a way that it's unbelievable. i want too be a corrections officer when i get older but im determined to take psychology classes because the human mind is amazing. and the way people live and ugh i know that it'll make me a better person by learning more about it. you have no idea how much i...
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“One of the most satisfying experiences I know- is just fully to appreciate an...”
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Carl Rogers (via stephdarling)
Humanistic therapy views at their best. Accepting the person for who he or she is. Love it. Absolutely love it.
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PSYCHOLOGY SURVEY ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS!!
IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE THIS ALREADY!- Can you please do me a favor and fill this out?
https://cbssmaryland.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8owHhrSMsvtdyZu
It’s a short survey (only 5 questions long) about relationships, and it’ll take you about 2-3 minutes to fill out. It doesn’t matter if you’re currently not in a relationship or have never been in one, please just fill it...
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12 Steps to Make a Dream a Reality.
Step #1 – Lose the negative attitude. Think positively.
Negative thinking creates negative results. Positive thinking creates positive results. Period.
Every one of the other suggestions below are irrelevant if your mind is stuck in the gutter. Positive thinking is at the forefront of every great success story. The mind must believe it can do something before it is capable of actually...
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20 Things Life Is Too Short to Tolerate.
You don’t have to settle, it’s simply a choice you make every day. If you feel like you’re running in place there’s a good chance you’re tolerating things you shouldn’t be. It’s time to reclaim your life.
Starting now, stop tolerating…
People who bring you down. – Relationships should help you, not hurt you. Spend time with nice people who are smart, driven and likeminded.
A work...
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28 Ways to Stop Complicating Your Life.
Life is not complicated. We are complicated. When we stop doing the wrong things and start doing the right things, life is simple.
So starting today…
Stop berating yourself for being a work in progress. – Start embracing it! Because being a work in progress doesn’t mean you’re not good enough today. It means you want a better tomorrow, and you wish to love yourself completely, so you can...
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40 Lessons for Finding Strength in Hard Times.
Sometimes you have to die a little on the inside first in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger, smarter version of yourself.
Nobody gets through life without losing someone they love, someone they need, or something they thought was meant to be. But it is these losses that make us stronger and eventually move us toward future opportunities for growth and happiness.
Over the past...
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12 Things Happy People Do Differently.
by Jacob Sokol of Sensophy
“I’d always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.” -Dan...
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Physiological Reactions to Associated Images in...
It is commonly known that, much like Pavlov’s dogs salivating in response to hearing the bell they associate with dinner time, smokers feel cravings and have physiological reactions to pictures they associate with smoking. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Neuroscience has shown that a smoker’s cravings can also be trained to non-smoking related...
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Study Examines Brain Activity Linked to...
In a new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), people with schizophrenia showed greater brain activity during tests that induce a brief, mild form of delusional thinking. This effect wasn’t seen in a comparison group without schizophrenia. The study appears in the December issue ofBiological Psychiatry. “We studied a type of delusion called a delusion of...
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