We’ve gotten a little — just a little — more info about the mysterious journals publisher. (See the December 22, 2009 post for the original story.) We got in touch with David Dunning and Justin Kruger, whose study “Unskilled and Unaware…”, was honored with an Ig Nobel Prize, way back in the year 2000. That […]
Tag: Psychology
A week’s quasi-coordinated unrandomization
The psychology of particular crowds — especially the repeated emergence of irrepressible repressed patterns — is on display in Gary Carstensen‘s sped-up video: This is one week of activity of my game called “steal” where anonymous users are free to arrange the balls. Sometimes the users coordinate to make shapes, symbols, and words. Every second […]
Caged emotions experiment
South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas, Texans ran experiments in how to diffuse adolescent emotions, according to a March 19, 2009 Dallas Morning News report: The principal and other staff members at South Oak Cliff High School were supposed to be breaking up fights. Instead, they sent troubled students into a steel utility cage […]
37 Therapists
by Jeremy Gorman Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada One day when I was wondering just what was wrong with me, I thought to ask some experts in what’s called psychology. Beginning with the founders of the psychologic arts, I went to Wundt and Titchener, who broke me into parts. John Dewey proved more functional, and Peirce […]