My brain just took a left turn on that one, but anyway. There's no escaping the ever-present stereotype of Freudian Psychoanalysis. Not even on my kids' DVDs.
Larry the Cucumber explores his love for his lips with the asparagus-therapist.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Inside a Toddler's Brain
A friend posted this on my FB page, though I have no idea about the original source. I giggled at "crayola oblongata". :)
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Got the t-shirt...
A friend of mine posted a link to this T-shirt on facebook. I love the quote:
We love you for your brains, only not the way zombies love brains.
Click here to buy on Thinkgeek.com
We love you for your brains, only not the way zombies love brains.
Click here to buy on Thinkgeek.com
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Mentoring in pro football quarterbacks
As we were watching "Outside the Lines" this morning on ESPN, I realized this video dovetails nicely with the idea of Erikson's "Generativity vs. Stagnation" stage. Experienced quarterbacks, maybe even "aging" quarterbacks, as far as pro football goes, have a love/hate relationship with the idea of training up the next generation of quarterbacks - the players who will eventually replace them.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
APS convention is coming, and I've been busy!
A month has gone by with many boxes being collected for our big move, and lots of planning with my future coworkers and bosses for the upcoming semester's course offerings. Is it too nerdy to say that it's so *fun* to do those things? :) Choosing textbooks (and getting sample copies for free!) is a singular joy of being a professor.
Anyway, I noticed that the APS convention is coming up in May (which I haven't been to in nearly a decade when it was in New Orleans!), but since it's a) in Chicago, and b) soon before our move, it wasn't even on my radar until recently. When I was on their webpage checking out the contents, I came across a series of interviews called "Inside the Psychologist's Studio" - probably a spoof on "Inside the Actors' Studio" - where they are interviewing heavyweights like Elizabeth Loftus and Paul Ekman. This year's convention will feature an interview with Brenda Milner, the psychologist who was famous for publishing the account of H.M.
Cool idea, APS!
Last for today, here's my newest "modern-art" (can I call it that?) find for office decor. Good grief, Etsy. So much cool stuff to be seen.
Anyway, I noticed that the APS convention is coming up in May (which I haven't been to in nearly a decade when it was in New Orleans!), but since it's a) in Chicago, and b) soon before our move, it wasn't even on my radar until recently. When I was on their webpage checking out the contents, I came across a series of interviews called "Inside the Psychologist's Studio" - probably a spoof on "Inside the Actors' Studio" - where they are interviewing heavyweights like Elizabeth Loftus and Paul Ekman. This year's convention will feature an interview with Brenda Milner, the psychologist who was famous for publishing the account of H.M.
Cool idea, APS!
Last for today, here's my newest "modern-art" (can I call it that?) find for office decor. Good grief, Etsy. So much cool stuff to be seen.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Geeking out
I got a job offer and I accepted it! Beginning in the fall, I'll be an Assistant Professor of Psychology - no "adjunct" there!
Among the complexities of relocating to a new state, I get to get all nerdy about things like:
-Decorating my OWN office
-Framing my PhD diploma (which currently resides in the giant envelope in which it was mailed to me 3 years ago)
-Planning course offerings
-Designing courses that have never been offered at this college
-Getting to teach something besides "Intro to Psych" and "Human Growth and Development" -- topics in my area of specialty!
-Thinking about all the *neat* things I can do with a student population which is largely on-campus residential and of traditional college age, and who all have regular and reliable access to the internet (Group projects! Online discussion groups! Special Topics courses!)
I so totally cannot wait. The next three months are going to be like the longest Christmas Eve, ever. Until then, I'm reading "Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other" by Sherry Turkle. Ironically, I am reading it on my Kindle ... but I like this book so far and what it has to say about robotics and their status as somewhere between alive-and-not alive. The mental shift for people and how they deal with robots has a lot of implications at a philosophical and spiritual level. So far, I'm only in the first section - I was totally hooked in the Introduction - but I can see this being used as one "textbook" for a Special Topics kind of course on the Psychology of Technology or something like that. Even more intriguing, this book seems to be one of several that this author has written about the psychology of technology; she seems to be something of an expert and I am looking forward to reading those next.
Among the complexities of relocating to a new state, I get to get all nerdy about things like:
-Decorating my OWN office
-Framing my PhD diploma (which currently resides in the giant envelope in which it was mailed to me 3 years ago)
-Planning course offerings
-Designing courses that have never been offered at this college
-Getting to teach something besides "Intro to Psych" and "Human Growth and Development" -- topics in my area of specialty!
-Thinking about all the *neat* things I can do with a student population which is largely on-campus residential and of traditional college age, and who all have regular and reliable access to the internet (Group projects! Online discussion groups! Special Topics courses!)
I so totally cannot wait. The next three months are going to be like the longest Christmas Eve, ever. Until then, I'm reading "Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other" by Sherry Turkle. Ironically, I am reading it on my Kindle ... but I like this book so far and what it has to say about robotics and their status as somewhere between alive-and-not alive. The mental shift for people and how they deal with robots has a lot of implications at a philosophical and spiritual level. So far, I'm only in the first section - I was totally hooked in the Introduction - but I can see this being used as one "textbook" for a Special Topics kind of course on the Psychology of Technology or something like that. Even more intriguing, this book seems to be one of several that this author has written about the psychology of technology; she seems to be something of an expert and I am looking forward to reading those next.
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