Category: psychology
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Overheard
As I write this, I’m in a psychology lab running participants for an experiment in my PhD dissertation. But you know, sometimes, it’s the findings that you stumble across while doing research that are just as interesting as the results you’re actively seeking out. For example, when first setting up the study, I had to…
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The Dead Squirrel Conundrum
The following exchange has recently been unearthed from the online archives of the University of Western Ontario’s school newspaper, The Gazette. It occurred in October of 1998, when the instigator of the discussion was just a budding first-year undergraduate student. Get that dead thing outta here Re: Dead things on campus To the Editor: A…
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The Emotion of WTF
WTF should be an emotion. There isn’t yet a single word for the sense of seeing something that totally boggles the mind; it’s related to confusion, but not the same thing. Confusion is aversive, while WTF leads to LOLs and a state of blissful unawareness of what’s going on. It’s more like confusion feeding into…
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