The disorder, found in as many as 20% of Japanese men, can be a serious problem when one is faced with the rigid social codes of Japanese commerce. Jerusalem Syndrome Did you walk into the holiest city on Earth and suddenly become gripped by the feeling that you’re the messiah? Then ...
The Substance‘s first two acts take place in an exaggerated reality that allows it to focus solely on satire and psychology. Just about everyone other than Moore and Qualley act like caricatures (Quaid is the lynchpin here). Why is the substance apparently offered to Elisabeth for free? Why...
Researchers have been working on this problem recently. Large-scale experiments directly contrasted the effectiveness of monetary and non-monetary incentives in motivating effort8,9,10. While both monetary and non-monetary incentives were found to be motivating, money had a large advantage over psycho...
My discipline is now psychology/cybernetics/complex systems and while I am in awe of the elegance of the amazing complexity in the world and i am someone who thinks intuitively and ‘holistically’ often under the influence of marijuana, I always in the final analysis resist succumbing to the...
The harpies fly off in clumsy formation. The party heads back to the countess to say they have solved the problem. The guards take the party to a suite of rooms, and the next hours pass tensely with the party realizing their fates are tied to the harpy kids’ fates. Also, Don Hector...
The phantom phantom— Phantom limbs have often been recruited as a major example of brain-generated pain, in the absence not just a problem with tissue, but of the tissue itself! If a limb doesn’t exist, the argument goes, then obviously the pain cannot be coming from it! Checkmate? Bu...
Even if you speak in a calm voice, the very fact that you are disagreeing with them gives them the all the incentive they need to say that you are starting an argument. Warning: according to Psychology Today, a Narcissist can be very ill-tempered behind closed doors; yet, will show the...
These patterns would reflect a kind of global meta-mind, rather alike the graphs of the stock market, which ultimately reveals the combined psychology of humanity's society. At some point, nature should be able to produce a data storage device that is so efficient that it is able to store...
This forced the players to retune their expectations and come at the problem in different ways. In one game, where they wanted to interview a shop owner, they asked if there was an apartment upstairs that might be the residence of the owner. There was indeed a residence, and a successful...
former contestant of The Biggest Loser: “Mr. Cahill, 46, said his weight problem began when he was in the third grade. He got fat, then fatter. He would starve himself, and then eat a whole can of cake frosting with a spoon. Afterward, he would cower in the pantry off the kitchen...