On the heels of the recent study that found a significant number of men who self-identified as straight and expressed extreme anti-gay opinions had sexual arousal responses to gay porn while straight men who did not express such opinions did not have arousal response to the same porn (while having arousal to hetero porn that…
Daily Archives: April 30, 2012
Influence
Creepy People Try To Seem Normal But Fail
by Brian David Phillips •
From the moment he steps onscreen in the 1960 thriller Psycho, Norman Bates gives audiences the goosebumps. The hotel manager-turned-serial killer just seems, well, off, maybe because he’s trying so hard to appear normal. Now a new study suggests that people who fail to appropriately imitate the mannerisms of others during social interactions can actually…
Hypnosis in the News, Special Features
Andrew Basiago discusses Time Travel and Project Pegasus
by Brian David Phillips •
A lot of people have a hard time trusting lawyers as it is, but what about one who claims he was part of a secret government time travel program when he was a kid? Since 2004, Seattle attorney Andrew Basiago has been publicly claiming that from the time he was 7 to when he was…
Influence
How to Spot a Scoundrel: Fidgeting and Trust
by Brian David Phillips •
“Imagine the original job interview. The first one ever, back on the prehistoric savannahs of eastern Africa. It wouldn’t have been exactly like a modern job interview, because early humans had no resumes or Linked-In or letters of recommendation to guide them. There was very little in the way of personal or professional reputation to…
Hypnosis in the News
Brain Stimulation Makes the ‘Impossible Problem’ Solvable
by Brian David Phillips •
Some fascinating research into brain stimulation and problem-solving has found a significant increase in certain types of creative problem-solving when certain areas of the brain are stimulated via an electric circuit thingie. From a nine dot problem with no solutions to stimulation and forty percent solutions is a pretty damned big jump. See the article…