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Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:54:44 GMT

clipped by: Newfman
clipper's remarks: Descriptions of all 10 experiments at the site

"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?" --Philip Zimbardo

Like eminent social psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo, I'm also obsessed with why we do dumb or irrational things. The answer quite often is because of other people - something social psychologists have comprehensively shown.

Over the past few months I've been describing 10 of the most influential social psychology studies. Each one tells a unique, insightful story relevant to all our lives, every day.

1. The Halo Effect: When Your Own Mind is a Mystery

2. How and Why We Lie to Ourselves: Cognitive Dissonance

3. War, Peace and the Role of Power in Sherif's Robbers Cave Experiment

4. Our Dark Hearts: The Stanford Prison Experiment

5. Just Following Orders? Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiment

Tags: psychology

Online Etymology Dictionary

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:07:58 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: Have fun

Clip Source: www.etymonline.com

Search:

Ecce homo

L., lit. "behold the man" (John xix.5).

eccentric

1398 as a term in Ptolemaic astronomy, from M.L. eccentricus, from Gk. ekkentros "out of the center" (as opposed to concentric), from ek "out" + kentron "center" (see center). Figurative sense of "odd, whimsical" (adj.) first recorded 1685. Noun meaning person with such qualities first attested 1832.

Ecclesiastes

c.1300, name given to one of the O.T. books, traditionally ascribed to Solomon, from Gk. ekklesiastes (see ecclesiastic), to render Heb. qoheleth "one who addresses an assembly," from qahal "assembly." The title is technically the designation of the speaker, but that word throughout is usually rendered into Eng. as "The Preacher."

Psychopath Test

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:45:57 GMT

clipped by: knslyr
clipper's remarks: Are you a psychopath?

Clip Source: www.pridestomb.com

Psychopath Test

Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the
bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads.

No one I know has got it right.

A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a guy whom she did
not know. She thought this guy was amazing. She believed him to be her
dream guy so much, that she fell in love with him right there, but never
asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed

her sister.

Question: What is her motive for killing her sister?

[Give this some thought before you answer, see answer below]

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Answer:
She was hoping the guy would appear at the funeral again. If you
answered this correctly, you think like a psychopath. This was a test by
a famous American Psychologist used to test if one has the same
mentality as a killer.
Many arrested serial killers took part in the test and answered the
question correctly.

Posted by knslyr on 2006.06.08 at 06:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: humor, psychopath test

Shooting 'canned' lions in South Africa

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:36:59 GMT

clipped by: michellezm
clipper's remarks: I understand killing and eating. The mind that enjoys depriving another living creature of its life for 'pleasure' is utterly beyond me. I have nothing but contempt for these people. This isn't a sport in any sense of the word.

Clip Source: edition.cnn.com

I’m on location in Vryburg, South Africa, in game hunting country. Our seven-hour, bum-numbing drive from Johannesburg has been rewarded with stunning video of one of South Africa’s oldest canned hunting operations.

This form of hunting is so controversial in South Africa it's difficult finding hunters who'll talk about it, let alone allow a CNN film crew to come along on a hunt.

On a canned hunt, animals you’d normally expect to find in the wild like, lions, leopards and rhinos are either placed in an enclosed space or bred specially to be hunted as trophies.

Animal rights groups say it's unethical and immoral and are campaigning for an outright ban of all trophy hunting in South Africa.

Lion breeders make around $25,000 and sometimes more for each lion a hunter shoots.

The lions at Sandhurst Safaris were beautiful -- all 250 of them. Sleek and golden they lived so close to the lodge that in the evening you could hear them roaring into the night.

Tags: lions, hunting, animals, fauna, south africa

How to improve your memory - Techniques

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:48:31 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: www.mindtools.com

Memory Improvement Tools

Introduction to Memory Techniques

Remembering a Simple List - The Link Method and Story Method

Remembering Ordered Lists - The Number/Rhyme Mnemonic

Remembering Ordered Lists - The Number/Shape Mnemonic

Remembering Middle Length Lists - The Alphabet Technique

Remembering Long Lists - The Journey System

Remembering Grouped Information - The Roman Room System

Remembering Very Long Numbers - The Major System

Using Concept Maps to Remember Structured Information

Memory Games - Have fun while you improve your memory

How to... Learn a Foreign Language

How to... Remember Information for Exams

How to... Remember People's Names

How to... Remember Lists and Long Numbers

Other Memory Tools - Reviewed... - Our reviews of other important memory resources

Download this section of Mind Tools in PDF format to read and print at your leisure

Tags: memory, brain, science, health, people, life

25 signs you've grown up!

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:28:54 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests...interesting!

Clip Source: www.emofree.com

25 Signs You've Grown Up

1. Your house plants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.

2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.

3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.

4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.

5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.

6. You watch the Weather Channel.

7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook up and break up.

8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.

9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as "dressed up."

10. You're the one calling the police because those damn kids next door won't turn down the stereo.

11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.

12. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.

13. Your car insurance goes down and your payments go up.

14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonalds leftovers.

15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.

16. You no longer take naps from noon to 6 PM.

17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.

18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.

19. You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.

20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good stuff."

21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.

22. "I just can't drink the way I used to," replaces, "I'm never going to drink that much again."

23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.

24. You no longer drink at home to save money before going to a bar.

25. You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that this doesn't apply to you.

Tags: grown ups.

The Ultimate Rejection Letter

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:13:27 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Clip Source: www.chaosmatrix.org

Herbert A. Millington
Chair - Search Committee
412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University
College Hill, MA  34109

Dear Professor Millington,

Thank you for your letter of March 16.  After careful consideration, I
regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me
an assistant professor position in your department. 

This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually
large number of rejection letters.  With such a varied and promising field
of candidates, it is impossible for me to accept all refusals. 

Despite Whitson's outstanding qualifications and previous experience in
rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at
this time.  Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor
in your department this August.  I look forward to seeing you then. 

Best of luck in rejecting future applicants.

Sincerely,
Chris L. Jensen

Tags: rejection, letter, humor, funny, wit, application, jobs, people, joke, entertainment

Why Dogs are Better Than Cats

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:38:00 GMT

clipped by: k9riley99

Clip Source: www.geocities.com

Dogs will tilt their heads and try to
understand every word you say. Cats

will ignore you and take a nap.

Cats look silly on a leash.

When you come home from work,
your dog will be happy and lick your face.
Cats will still be mad at you for leaving

in the first place.

Dogs will give you unconditional love
until the day they die. Cats will make you
pay for every mistake you've ever made

since the day you were born.

A dog knows when you're sad. And he'll
try to comfort you. Cats don't care how you
feel, as long as you remember where the

can opener is.

Dogs will come when you call them. And
they'll be happy. Cats will have someone take

a message and get back to you.

Dogs will wake you up if the house is on
fire. Cats will quietly sneak out the back door.

Tags: cats, dogs, humor, fun

Fascinating Feline Facts

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:32:00 GMT

clipped by: djkraz
clipper's remarks: I didn't even make it half way down the list and I learned the answer to a lot of the questions i've always wondered about cats. FYI, there are many many many more at the source. ENJOY!

Clip Source: www.cats.alpha.pl

Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.

Cats are sometimes born with extra toes. This is called polydactly. These toes will not harm the cat, but you should keep his claws trimmed just like any toe.

Newborn kittens have closed ear canals that don't begin to open for nine days.When the eyes open, they are always blue at first. They change color over a period of months to the final eye color.

Most cats have no eyelashes.

A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.

You can tell a cat's mood by looking into its eyes. A frightened or excited cat will have large, round pupils. An angry cat will have narrow pupils. The pupil size is related as much to the cat's emotions as to the degree of light.

It is a common belief that cats are color blind. However, recent studies have shown that cats can see blue, green and red.

A large majority of white cats with blue eyes are deaf. White cats with only one blue eye are deaf only in the ear closest to the blue eye. White cats with orange eyes do not have this disability.

A cat can jump even seven times as high as it is tall.

Cats lack a true collarbone. Because of this lack, cats can generally squeeze their bodies through any space they can get their heads through. You may have seen a cat testing the size of an opening by careful measurement with the head.

Mother cats teach their kittens to use the litter box.

Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.

Cats can't taste sweets.

Cats must have fat in their diet because they can't produce it on their own.

Some common houseplants poisonous to cats include: English Ivy, iris, mistletoe, philodendron, and yew.

If a male cat is both orange and black it is ( besides being extremely rare ) sterile. To have both the orange and the black coat colors, the male cat must have all or part of both female X chromosomes. This unusual sex chromosome combination will render the male cat sterile.

Tags: cats, feline, facts, science, cat

The Ultimate Cat Pictures Page?

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:38:39 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: Well, I don't know about 'ultimate', but it's definitely huge.

Clip Source: www.acc.umu.se

Pictures

Tags: cat, cats, photos, pictures, images, list, links, resource, animals, humor

The Fallacy Files

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:50:03 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: I clipped this before, but pop restrictions burried the clip.

In a very naive hope to keep discussions fallacy-free, better the debate and stimulate some self-criticism, I'm re-sharing this with you all.

Anyway, the resource is huge, examples abundant, explications very clear and even etymological grounded.

Clip Source: www.fallacyfiles.org

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Clip Source: www.fallacyfiles.org

What are the Fallacy Files?

A collection of named fallacies—such as "ad hominem"—that is, types of bad reasoning which someone has thought distinctive and interesting enough to name and describe. This collection took the form, primarily, of the study and acquisition of books and articles on the named fallacies, especially textbooks and reference books. You can find individual files on the named fallacies via the Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies, or from the alphabetical index in the scroll bar to your left.

A collection of fallacious, or otherwise bad, arguments, that is, examples of reasoning which may commit one or more of the named fallacies under 1, or are bad in some way yet to be classified. This collection took the form of clippings from newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, photocopies of pages of books, and—in a few rare cases—entire articles or books which were rich sources of bad reasoning. I have used selections from my collection as examples in many of the files on named fallacies, and additional examples can be found in the file: Stalking the Wild Fallacy.

Tags: fallacy, logical, discussion, argument, logical fallacy, logic, appeal, argumentum, debate, index, list, rhetoric, science, politics, fallacy files

Nazanin promotes Stop Child Execution Campaign on Media:

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:37:57 GMT

clipped by: harleew

Clip Source: www.stopchildexecutions.com

NEWS &UPDATES

Reza's family sign the Stop Child Executions petition

Reza Alinejad 's family and friends signed and supported the Stop child executions petition. Signatures on petition:

No one knew of Reza Alinejad until very recently. It was the letter of Ali Alinejad, Reza's brother, to Nazanin Afshin_Jam and her follow up and contact with Nazanin Fatehi's attorney Mr. Mostafai which brought attention to Reza's situation. Ever since Ali has been in direct contact with Nazanin Afshin-Jam. In an email today he provided another photo of Reza.

Nazanin Afshin-Jam and Stop Child Executions Campaign have received new photos of Reza Alinejad and Delara Darabi.
A new and amazing artwork of Delara is also posted in her gallery:

In response to information provided to amnesty international by Nazanin Afshin-Jam and Stop Child Executions Campaign; Amnesty international published an URGENT ACTION bulletin to help save REZA ALINEJAD from execution.

Tags: stop child execution, petition

How to Start / Create Your Own Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:21:26 GMT

clipped by: inkognito

Clip Source: www.thesitewizard.com

How to Start / Create Your Own Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide

Although thesitewizard.com contains guides for a wide variety of issues faced by a webmaster, new or old, none of them provide a step by step A-Z guide for getting started with your website. As a result, I'm often asked by people who are absolute newcomers where they should start. Having an encyclopaedia in your hands is not much use if you don't know which articles you should read first, and which next. This tutorial attempts to fill in the gaps by providing you an overview to the web creation process from the beginning, linking to selected relevant on thesitewizard.com that you need to read and do at each stage.

Tags: guide, howto, website, webtools

God-Drunk vs. Godless

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:56:55 GMT

clipped by: apple white
clipper's remarks: From the Atlantic Monthly's article "The American Idea" - Scholars, novelists, politicians, artists, and others look ahead to the future of the American idea. I thought the juxtaposition of these two pieces in particular was interesting. Sam Harris is the author of The End of Faith (2004) and Letter to a Christian Nation (2006). Tim LaHaye is a minister and the author of more than 50 books, including the best-selling Left Behind series.

I have clipped both pieces below because Atlantic Monthly won't let you view the entire article.

Clip Source: www.theatlantic.com

God-Drunk Society

by Sam Harris

America is now a nation of 300 million souls, wielding more influence than any people in human history—and yet 240 million of these souls apparently believe that Jesus will return someday and orchestrate the end of the world with his magic powers. This hankering for a denominational, spiritual oblivion is not a good bet, much less a useful idea.

Clip Source: www.theatlantic.com

Godless Society

by Tim LaHaye

America’s uniqueness is based in the Christian consensus of the Founding Fathers, who penned documents guaranteeing religious and personal freedom for all. This nation was not founded by atheists, secularizers, or monarchists who thought the elite educated class should rule over the common people. America’s founding was based more on biblical principles than any other nation’s on Earth—and that’s the main reason this country has been more blessed by God than any other nation in history.

Tags: religion, america, christianity, atheism

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Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:06:05 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Spam, spam, spam, spam! Spam, spam, spam, spam! SPAM, wonderful SPAM!

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Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies

Online Etymology Dictionary

Psychopath Test

Psychopath Test

Shooting 'canned' lions in South Africa

How to improve your memory - Techniques

Memory Improvement Tools

25 signs you've grown up!

25 Signs You've Grown Up

The Ultimate Rejection Letter

Why Dogs are Better Than Cats

Fascinating Feline Facts

The Ultimate Cat Pictures Page?

The Fallacy Files

Go to Main Menu

INDEX

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What are the Fallacy Files?

Nazanin promotes Stop Child Execution Campaign on Media:

How to Start / Create Your Own Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide

How to Start / Create Your Own Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide

God-Drunk vs. Godless

God-Drunk Society

Godless Society

Penis SPAM On ClipMarks - SAVE US, CLIPDADDIES! HELP!

A B C D E F G H I JKL M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ