When my children were young, we insisted that they pick up a musical instrument, any instrument. With a piano, organ, and guitars in the house, this wasn’t too difficult. Kristin and Karen decided that playing with the school band was more fun than playing alone, and they learned to play Read more…
I was following up a link to my blog on Et Cetera, and discovered that unlike a number of psychology blogs, mine was NOT banned in China yet. I wonder what one must do to get banned? Et Cetera notes that you can go to the greatfirewallofchina site and see if your Read more…
When I was an undergrad (shortly after the dawn of time), we HAD to participate in ongoing research in order to pass our introductory psychology courses. You learned very quickly that the faculty were kinder than the graduate students, who had a tendency to like administering electric shock. Now, of Read more…
My husband is used to my fascination with football and basketball, but he seemed nonplussed today when I suggested we walk the mile or so from our home to one of the points on the Amgen Tour of California route. He not only walked with me, but he also took Read more…
Most biological psychologists are comfortable with the idea that at least some temperamental tendencies, later shaped by experience into personality, are present at birth and are largely determined by genetics. Now Mats Larsson of Orebro University in Sweden is claiming that the patterning of a person’s iris correlates with major personality Read more…