December 2011
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IT'S AN ALL-NIGHTER KINDA NIGHT
Hey look at this psych article this is what the whole post is about sort of. Psych article summarized: Articulate your sadness. Don’t articulate your happiness. It dulls emotions.
BUT it will strengthen your opinions for utilitarian experiences.
Does this suggest that our emotional snap-judgements are stronger than our cognitive ones? It seems that in order to form strong opinions, we need...
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Studies are showing that boys want love, too →
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Finally! A Disney toddler princess! →
Apparently Disney anticipates people getting pissed at them for creating a reverse-satire of Toddlers in Tiaras, so they stress that the movie/television series “will focus on learning.” The general manager also adds the imperative that there will be “plenty of pretty dresses and sparkly shoes.” Hopefully all that learning won’t make the 2-7 year old audience forget to ask...
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Short Skirts Magically Turn Women Into Bitches →
Excellent article. Gets to one of the root causes of female in-fighting:
“Myth of male weakness” outsources men’s sexual self-control to women.
Read the whole thing!
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“People are gonna try to change you. They’ll try to mellow you out, reason with...”
– Extremist Cognitive Scientist Grandparent