Entries Tagged as 'Social Psychology'
Read Julian Jaynes for Help in Getting Your Brain To Do What You Want It To
June 9th, 2008 · No Comments
The most interesting book I’ve yet read gave me insight into getting my brain to do what I want it to do.
It is Julian Jaynes‘s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, copyright 1976.
Tags: Social Psychology
Traffic Rule Scofflaws on the San Rafael Bridge: Stop Now or Get a Ticket
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments
I just called the CHP to complain about the illegal lane changers at the approach to the Richmond/San Rafael toll plaza. (See CalTrans Foiled by Bad Drivers.)The darling officer who answered the phone said he’d get right on it!
HA!
Tags: Social Psychology
CalTrans Foiled by Bad Drivers: Why Don’t They Obey Traffic Rules?
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments
What is it that people don’t get about driving rules. The rules are there so traffic flows smoothly. You, you who are not following the traffic rules, you’re causing the congestion. Who are you you think you’re so special that YOU don’t have to obey? I want to know!
Tags: Social Psychology
Women Entrusting Money to Men Is Time Honored Tradition, So Why Pillory Hillary?
April 11th, 2008 · No Comments
The more I think about it, the more unfair seems the pillorying of Hillary over her cattle futures investments. (See Dad Baits Daughter and Denigrates Hillary: What Can We Learn from Whitewater?)
Tags: Money Matters · Social Psychology
Bowling for Columbine Meets Sicko in a Culture of Fear
April 11th, 2008 · No Comments
I finally got around to watching Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore’s expose on gun ownership in the United States.
The most important contribution Mr Moore makes in this film is to point out that in the U.S. we live in a culture of fear. He brings out this point in Sicko as well.
Tags: Non Fiction · Social Psychology