Share on Tumblr Recent fMRI studies verify that words not only affect one’s emotions they have a genuine effect upon the very structure of the brain, in many cases causing one’s emotional responses to situations to create shortcuts to negative (or, positive) emotional states. Negative words and negative thoughts can and do fuck you...
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Share on Tumblr Well, the Eyes may not be the Window into Your Soul, but they may be an indication of your sexual orientation so now you may have a new tool in your sexual orientation sleuth kit or at least a bit of an adjustment to your gaydar. A number of news outlets...
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Share on Tumblr This post is based upon an earlier one but since Todd Bentley is in the news again, this time in a very negative light, it’s worth reposting this again with a bit of a revision. Faith is a very powerful thing . . . when properly ignited it can lead to...
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Share on Tumblr How’s this for a bit of fascinating research? If you pretend to be in love, you can actually fall in love for real! In Neurolinguistic Programming and Hypnosis training circles there’s an adage that is often used, “fake it ’til you make it” which is essentially based upon the idea that...
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Share on Tumblr During the Soul Gazing webinar on Seeing into the Eyes of the Spirit (eXperiential Soul Gazing for Lovers and Beyond) (see here), part of the discussion came around to whether or not one needed to signpost the act of soul gazing or if the methods could be used without overt suggestion....
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Share on Tumblr I’ve discussed exorcists and exorcism here before, most recently in reference to the Teen Exorcists who you can hire. Recently, several news sites have picked up on a form of Gay Conversation Therapy that is built upon the assumption that homosexuality is something that can be exorcised from a person’s spirit....
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Share on Tumblr Britney Fitzgerald of the Huffington Post reports on a new study which compared contacts, messages, and date queries of male and female profiles that had identical content with only differences in profile photo attractiveness differentiating them. The study found that women received far more contacts than men and that attractive females...
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Share on Tumblr Harry Bradford reports on illicit recreational spending at political conventions (here), particularly looking at recent research that demonstrates conservative conventions spend much more on illicit recreation than liberal conventions. In particular, research has shown that in the United States, Republicans spend more on strippers and prostitutes than their Democratic counterparts. Since...
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Share on Tumblr The following Psychological Optical Illusion is a neat optical illusion, that will be seen differently by different cultures. The perception of the scene in the photo is largely determined by your culture and what part of the world you live in. So what did you see happening in the above picture?...
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Share on Tumblr Amy Taxin has discovered a new trend in dating parties . . . nope, not speed dating . . . nope, not key parties . . . smell parties . . . that is, pheromone parties, to be specific. Students in my social communication course this year may recall our discussion...
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Share on Tumblr Found at Huffington Post, recent study finds that when a woman is touched by a male stranger, her body actually heats up. Women get hotter when they feel a stranger’s touch – especially when the person making contact is a man, a study has shown. Scientists measured a small but significant...
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Share on Tumblr Joshua A. Tabak and Vivian Zayas have published their study confirming GAYDAR in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE, causing a bit of a controversy. Their can be found at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0036671 and the abstract reads: Research has shown that people are able to judge sexual orientation from faces with above-chance accuracy, but...
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Share on Tumblr According to some research, bad weather increases the chances of folks cheating on their spouses. Evidently this is especially true of women, particularly when it’s raining. Sarah O’Meara writes of studies with illicit dating sites (websites dedicated to helping cheaters find partners to cheat with) that found bad weather has been...
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Share on Tumblr Victor Stenger discusses how current research in neuroscience has revealed a startling fact that revolutionizes much of what we humans have previously taken for granted about our interactions with the world outside our heads: Our consciousness is really not in charge of our behavior. Laboratory experiments show that before we become...
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Share on Tumblr Now, here’s something fun. Richard Wiseman, of Quirkology fame conducts the world’s quickest personality test. Follow Wiseman’s directions to discover what sort of person you are . . . personality wise, that is. Yes, it works; yes, it has genuine results; no, some few folks may have contrary results so it’s...
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