by jmalouff | Nov 14, 2018 | Human Thinking and Behavior
I recently visited Aarhus, Denmark. As I entered the botanic gardens, I saw a big poster on a kiosk. The poster has on it the famous photo of a South Vietnamese general shooting a prisoner in the head. I don’t read Danish, so I could not determine why the...
by jmalouff | Nov 14, 2018 | Human Thinking and Behavior
Are you a better than average driver? Almost everyone says yes to this question. Even people in the hospital because they just drove their car into a stranger’s house. Students think that they are better than average students. Teachers think they are better than...
by jmalouff | Nov 13, 2018 | Social psychology, Social Support
Many women have told others about previously secret events of their life, including being sexually harassed and assaulted. Both men and women testified at the Australian Royal Commission on sexual abuse in institutions. The Me Too movement grows all the...
by jmalouff | Nov 13, 2018 | Social psychology
Hell must a bad place. I know that because individuals angry with me have told me to go there. People talk about the weather being hot as hell. But sometimes we say the weather is cold as hell. Taylor Swift sings about a guy being handsome as hell. Dante made...
by jmalouff | Nov 12, 2018 | Social psychology
I picture the first religious beliefs emerging when our distant ancestors experienced the fierce power of nature – a huge earthquake or an exploding volcano. They certainly wanted to know what caused that. Their best guess: The wrath of gods. The humans...