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Category: psychology

  • Montreal

    I’ve been spending a lot of time in Montreal lately. This past week I was there for the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association. Here are the highlights of the trip, none of which involved the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association.1 The titular Mount Royal. Hahahaha titular. Habitat 67 sounds like a…

  • Freud and The World’s First Documented "That’s What She Said"

    So I was reading Freud’s book A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis because I had a particularly vexing question about the practice of psychology and went straight to the best source of information. Just kidding! Freud ruined psychology. More like Sigmund Fraud! HAH! But for serious, I rescued the book from my parents’ garage sale, and…

  • It’s Almost Like ESP, Day 2

    Once again, I took part in Richard Wiseman’s fun but flawed Twitter remote viewing study. Here’s what I tweeted when he said he was at the location: Here is what I drew (rotated to disingenuously enhance appearance of psychic ability): And here is where Richard turned out to be: Once again proving that I’m totally…