Archive for the 'Socio-Political' Category

Psychiatry, anti-psychiatry and mental disease: Does psychiatry suck?

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

I found this link in Providentia
A Shocking Discovery (Part One)
It speaks about the discovery of the electroshock by the psychiatrists in the 1930s. As it seems, this is a series of articles discussing this issue. I felt compeled to offer my personal viewpoint concerning a few facts about psychiatry.
The above link may appear a [...]

Homosexuality, evolutionary psychology and cognition

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Men’s sexual orientation recognised in a fraction of a second.
The above link points to a very interesting research (Brief exposures: Male sexual orientation is accurately perceived at 50 ms). The experimenters showed a series of faces to the subjects and the subjects could identify with 57% accuracy which of them were homosexual. The [...]

Lotteries, poverty and social implications

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Why play a losing game? Study uncovers why low-income people buy lottery tickets.
This above link is some news posted on Eurekalert. It’s a study proving that poor people are more likely to buy lottery tickets
"In the study, published in the July issue of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, participants who were made to feel [...]

The Psychology of The Dark Knight: Batman, superheroes, popular culture,art, Friederich Nietzsche, terrorism and the politics of George Bush

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

 
I had the luck to watch the Dark Knight in the world premiere. This movie just stuck in my head and I couldn’t get it out. I believe that it has steered many issues and there are a lot of things to say about it, so I decided to write a post and publish some [...]

Neurons, politics and economics

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Press Release: Neuropolicy Center Confronts the Biological Basis of Collective Decision Making
I found the above link in the Neuromarketing (Neuromarketing » Neuropolicy Center at Emory). It’s a press release about the opening of a new center for the correlation between brain and political behavior. 
I believe that we start to see a pattern here. At the [...]

Drugs, Guns, Cops and Tasers

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Ex-cop may be charged in case of man Tasered to death – CNN.com.
All right. This is all wacked up.
 
This news article publicshed in CNN raises three important issues:
1)Drugs
2)Guns
3)Law inforcement
I want this to be a series of three articles treating all 3, saying as much as I can say in a few words. The first installment [...]


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