Word: psych
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...Gist: Chances are you underestimate your capacity for cruelty. Stanley Milgram's famous obedience experiments in the 1960s and '70s demonstrated that we're conditioned to inflict pain on complete strangers when impelled to do so by an authority figure. Milgram's experiments - linchpins of any freshman psych class - were simple. Volunteer participants were enlisted to help with a study purportedly tracking the effects of punishment on learning. When the "learner" made an error, the volunteer was told to administer an electric shock. Milgram found volunteers were disturbingly willing to follow orders, even as voltage levels increased in intensity...
...time in history. I think we’re all looking forward to getting back there. Here are just a few reasons why: 5. The Clintons: No elaboration really necessary; Bill and Hil are back and this time they’ve got nothing to lose. 4. The Economy...Psych! 3. No Doubt: Getting back together. 2. SNL: Seems like it is sucking less now, either because there’s actual funny stuff happening in the world or because there’s loads more really, really sad stuff. Also, there’s that “Jizz...
...says. Past festival curators have included rock bands Sonic Youth, Modest Mouse, and Portishead, as well as filmmaker Vincent Gallo and Simpson’s creator Matt Groening. My Bloody Valentine’s selections include performances by indie mainstays Dinosaur Jr and Yo La Tengo, as well as psych-rockers Mercury Rev and Brian Jonestown Massacre.Hogan and ATP scheduled the festival’s other two nights. The first night features five artists each playing a full album as their set, including Built to Spill performing their celebrated 1997 indie rock epic “Perfect From Now On?...
...also not too tightly wrapped, you know - the medical people are getting a psychiatrist to have him declared so they can put him into a psych facility," the case manager said...
...have visited psych facilities and I liked Sandy - I didn't want him in one. No, he didn't remember being on the floor and, yes, he was foggy with details of time. From his first day post-op, he seemed to regard the hip surgery as something in his distant past. But it's so easy to lose track of time. He was good on most everything else - or was he? He was a little wacky the way he went off on stories, but he really wasn't any wackier than so many other people his age - and those...