emotions - Dangerous Intersection

On Guns, Mental Hygiene, and Resilience

Post author:Lisa Rokusek
Post published:December 17, 2012
Post category:Aggression and Violence Culture Human animals Meaning of Life Neuroscience Quality of Life Science
Post comments:15 Comments

It may surprise people who know me that I am not completely anti-gun. It seems like something I might be. I don’t like loud noises and I don’t like violence, and killing hurts me. I have to avert my eyes form a lot of TV and movies. But the gun thing is no longer simple for me. The last time I was stridently anti-gun was while lecturing my father about the dangers of guns. He happened to be holding off a midnight intruder with a hammer and wanted me to go get his gun. I was a senior in high school and I knew everything and I refused . . .

Darwin’s foray into experimental psychology

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:June 10, 2010
Post category:Human animals Psychology Cognition
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Darwin was a polymath. In addition to his many other interests, he was an experimental psychologist studying the ability of people to recognize particular emotions in others, based on photographs. You can read more about this at Scientific American.

I don’t know

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:September 5, 2007
Post category:Education Politics Psychology Cognition War
Post comments:4 Comments

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Ludwig Wittgenstein We are suffering greatly because too many people are incapable of saying “I don’t know.” Why can’t people simply say “I don’t know” when they don’t know? Is it because so many of us were chastised in school when…

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