The Effects of Dead Week

Mar12, 08 at 1247

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 [...]

Messing with people in the Name of Psychology

Mar7, 08 at 1151

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 [...]

Facebook vs note-taking

Feb29, 08 at 2146

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 [...]