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Category: psychology

  • Book Review: Theatre of the Mind: Raising the Curtain on Consciousness, by Jay Ingram

    Consciousness is a very difficult subject to tackle. It’s hard to even define, despite the fact that every one of us experiences it during every (waking?) moment of our lives. It’s even harder to study objectively, given that consciousness is, practically by definition, highly subjective. Jay Ingram gives it a shot in his latest book,…

  • My Eyes Hurt

    Random things to say: I grew some new facial hair. It’s a goatee (according to this guide). V hates it but I like it and so do some other people. So I’ll keep it until V complains some more and I go back to the stubble and/or line-beard look. I thought I ran the last…

  • Inside the Mind

    One of the things I do “for a living” is run participants in psychology experiments. For my own research, one of the things I have the participants do is a creativity task in which they come up with as many ideas as they can based on a sentence or drawing (e.g. think of as many…