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Video Games Make You Smart
I’ll stick with posting about psychology, since school/work is all I’ve been doing lately. I came across an article (Teasdale & Owen, 2000) which looked at trends in intelligence scores over the last few decades. As you may know, intelligence has been steadily going up over time. This study looked at a Danish population, to…
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Psychobabble
You know, there are a lot of interesting things in the field of psychology, but not a lot of people know about them. When most people think of psychology, they think of Sigmund Freud sitting behind a patient on a couch while they talk about their childhood, while he fills out a prescription for crazy…
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Hiro is the Hero of Heroes
I’ve been watching a few of the new shows that have been coming out this fall. I think the best by far is Heroes. It’s about superheroes, but is more like Unbreakable than Spider-man, so it’s much more subtle and adult than you might expect. The best part of the show is Hiro, a Japanese…
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