Yahoo Answers accepts questions that few other answer-all-questions services do. Here’s an example: “What is the difference between sociology and phycology?” Yahoo Answers says that the former “tends to examine groups of persons (societies), communities, and nations” while the latter “examines more of the workings of the human mind, why persons think and behave as […]
Tag: Psychology
Baba Shiv and the Frinky Science
Ig Nobel Prize winner Baba Shiv gives a 5/4ths-hours-long lecture called “The Frinky Science of the Human Mind”. (Professor Shiv shared the 2008 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine.)
When my dog visited Hauser’s lab
Robin Abrahams, our psychology editor, writes in Salon: “What kind of a pet owner voluntarily submits her dog for laboratory experiments? The kind who very much hoped that the scientists would give out bumper stickers that read, “My Dog Is an Honor Student at the Harvard Canine Cognition Lab,” that’s who. Now that the academic […]
Car salesmen and psychology profs
A psychology professor is helping his profession share the same level of public esteem enjoyed by car salesmen. A press release from Chevrolet announces: The mathematical formula has been developed for car brand Chevrolet as part of a handshake training guide [1, 2] for its staff to prepare them ahead of the launch of the […]