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My brother sent me some interesting blog posts regarding Echinoderms vs. Mollusks and which ones are better and why.
I was at first wondering how this argument starting showing up over the internet and decided to test out its argumentative quality in a semi-sorta psych experiment with one of my science minded friends.
Debates are fun and [...]

Although many psychologists swear by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), there is some criticism toward the diagnosis of Mental Disorders.
The DSM-IV assumes that humans can distinguish between normal and abnormal. Some people argue that mental disease is a social construct. Abnormal behavior would differ from culture to culture. We might consider [...]

If you ever study animal behavior or ethology, you’re taught not to read human emotion into animal reactions and behavior.

But why?

The answer is that these are animals and we’re looking for reasons for actions rather than saying an animal hid because it was embarrassed. Animals arn’t humans! they don’t even come CLOSE! Right…?

Perhaps it isn’t as inaccurate as all that to believe that some animals are as complex in emotion as humans.

Stress… Everyone knows its bad. Flight and Fight responses were designed for short bursts of time, enough to escape that saber tooth tiger and that was all. We’d all be better off without stress, but the college student knows how stress occurs during the aptly name “dead week”, the week before finals.
Take this Headline:
“Short-term stress [...]

During my psych discussion section yesterday, we designed a quick experiment to test people’s curiousity and/or conformity to a group.
We basically had an ‘actor’ stare up at the sky and we were trying to see how many people would also look up. We were scattered about so it wasn’t obvious how many observers there were.
After [...]

Although computers have changed the face of University Education, I still find it remarkable how many students take notes by hand rather than on a laptop. I know my personal reasons. They have to do with distractions.
And now I realize I may not be the only one. I have now realized that most students on [...]

I’m up late writing my psychopathology paper on Schizophrenia for Psychology…. It’s giving me a headache as I face my worst writer’s block ever.
I’m supposed to be using examples from “A Beautiful Mind”, explaining if the media’s portrayal of the disorder is correct.
Here’s an excerpt from the paper–
“Schizophrenia is defined as a psychotic disorder and [...]