Just to make it clear, I am not a male chauvinistic pig and this time I don’t even pretend to be one. I just found a picture that describes in 99% curacy every argument that ever took place between a female and a male member of our species, in the past 4.000.000 years. [No over exaggeration in this sentence]
How men and women argue
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In an article from Psyblog it is very nicely explained that we have to believe everthing we are reading in order to be able to process it.
In an ancient experiment (1993) 2 groups of people were shown a text about two criminals.
They were told that everything in this text written red font was a false.
Both groups started reading, but people in one group were distracted everytime they read the red text.
The first group was not distracted and had time to think about what they just read. The other group did not have time to think about it.
The red text came in 2 versions as well. In the first version criminals seemed much more violent (e.g. he had a gun). The second version let them appear less guilty (e.g. he had starving kids to feed).
Now as the people had the story they had to decide on how long those criminals should go to prison.
Here is the average years in prison for the criminals as the four groups decided:
not distracted while reading |
distracted while reading |
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| “nice” story | 6.03 years | 5.83 years |
| “violent” story | 7.03 years | 11.15 years |
Whenever you are telling bullshit, you can even tell them that you just lied to them, just make sure you overload them with new info immediately after.
Here are the top 5 indicators:
If there would be a god, he would not have allowed anything like this:
Here is a recipe for a very entertaining evening:
Take 1 Chihuahua which has been on a strict fruits and vegetables diet for the past 5 years.
Hand it a chicken-bone.
Sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
What will happen is simple:
The “dog” will chew on the bone and discover something animal like which was not jet cleansed by all the Evian water.
Everyone in the room will worry that the “dog” might die because of chewing on a bone and try to get that thing out of its mouth.
The rat with long legs will fight for its life for the first time of its existence in order to keep the bone.
In an act of desperation it will attempt to swallow the bone (bigger than its own head) as a whole.
The end result will be a very, very pissed Chihuahua because it was deprived from its first experienced of being alive. Extremely shocked pet owners and the devious person who handed the bone. That person might need some time to recover from rolling on the floor laughing because the whole spectacle was just too dame awesome.
Live every day as if it was your first; Expect the best and prepare for the worst.
I was diversifying my attention (avoiding writing on my business plan) at peopleofwalmart.com when I remembered the awesome news about a British woman getting kicked out of New Zealand for being too fat.
The story goes something like: A British specialist for submarine cables working in New Zealand applied for a Visa for his wife so they can stay together in New Zealand. At first the authorities were like: sure thing, you are a specialist, we like those people, and yes you can bring your wife. But in the moment they laid eyes on his gracious, sweet, sweet darling they were all like: “Holy F@#$! Hey, forget what we said. She is to fat! No way you can stay in this country, you have to find some other place to live!” True story.
The New Zealand government decided that due to health cost reasons new immigrants must pass a certain weight standard.
See I am all for that! Government regulation is the only way to tackle this tremendous problem I am facing whenever I am not in Japan.
Also I don’t see any reason why this should not be extended to other areas in life. Like:
I actually worked on a formula* to determine the clothing price:
1 + (%of Facesymetry - BMI - estimated Age + ‰ expected men's alcohol level - 50)/100 * retail price
Obviously there is quit some improvement necessary, but you get the idea.
*this formula applies only to women above 21 years.
I strongly support the notion of dropping the “Talk like a pirate day” for the “Talk like a scientist” week.
In order to get this idea started I compiled a list of some everyday expressions and their appropriate counterpart in more scientific terms.
As I am not capable of producing statements that would be suitable for exemplary purposes I qote the scientific paper: How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs
Every-day-language |
Talk like a Scientist |
| Serotonin makes you happy. | Reported levels of happiness were positively correlated and reported levels of sadness were negatively correlated with serotonin synthesis in the right anterior cingulate cortex. |
| Too little serotonin makes you unhappy. | Research on the association between various polymorphisms and depression supports the idea that serotonin plays a role, not only in the treatment of depression but also in susceptibility to depression and suicide. |
| Happy people are healthy. | Another reason for pursuing nonpharmacologic methods of increasing serotonin arises from the increasing recognition that happiness and well-being are important, both as factors protecting against mental and physical disorders and in their own right. |
| Unhappy people get more often sick. | A meta-analysis of 45 studies demonstrated that hostility is a risk factor for CHD and for all-cause mortality. |
| Happy people life longer. | In a classic study, those in the lowest quartile for positive emotions, rated from autobiographies written at a mean age of 22 years, died on average 10 years earlier than those in the highest quartile. |
| Happy people have more friends. | Research confirms what might be intuitively expected, that positive emotions and agreeableness foster congenial relationships with others. This in turn will create the conditions for an increase in social support. |
| When you think about happy things, you will get happy. | The study by Perreau-Linck and colleagues is the first to report that self-induced changes in mood can influence serotonin synthesis. |
| Bright light makes you feel good. | serotonin levels are higher in those who died in summer than in those who died in winter. A similar conclusion came from a study on healthy volunteers, in which serotonin synthesis was assessed by measurements of the serotonin metabolite 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in the venous outflow from the brain. |
| After exercising you feel good. | motor activity increases the firing rates of serotonin neurons, and this results in increased release and synthesis of serotonin. In addition, there is an increase in the brain of the serotonin precursor tryptophan that persists after exercise. |
| When you eat food that has anti depressants in it, you feel better. | α-Lactalbumin, a minor constituent of milk, is one protein that contains relatively more tryptophan than most proteins. Acute ingestion of α-lactalbumin by humans can improve mood and cognition in some circumstances, presumably owing to increased serotonin. |
The part where they connect thinking of happy things and the raised serotonin level in the brain absolutely plays into the post about Being lucky. Another thing that gets mentioned on the site is a study which proves that meditation (intensive thinking) will increase the level of dopamine. Self fulfilling prophecies are backed up by your brain’s neural plasticity.
So when you are running out of Prozac, take a walk during the daytime and think about happy things. → It will make you happy!
In the case anyone feels like he/she needs more guidance, I suggest to learn:
I absolutely love that show!
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