December 2011
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elledanish asked: i've learned a lot from here too than my psyc textbooks. i'm a psyc major as well. i'm glad you wrote up a thank you/good bye post. i wish you the best in your future.
Deleting.
Hello :) Exactly one year ago on this day, I signed up for a Tumblr account and decided on the name Monster Psychology. I was on a vacation with my family when I did & I found myself much more involved in what I was doing online than what was going on around me. Everyone who has followed this blog since then has been so supportive and sweet. I’ve learned more from this silly blog than I...
November 2011
5 posts
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Watchgossipgran:
me rapping look at me now<3
((((plz watch this took me a lot of time to perfect thank u))))
This is what a perfect human being looks like
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psychology2010 asked: That quote below by Lemony Snicket. What does it mean? I just want to hear your interpretation on it.
"The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too."
"The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too."
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“You think you’re a failure, but you’re not. You will only truly...”
– Unknown
jeselnik:
nyeeeeaaaah:
trappingforthathead:
How do people develop eating disorders?
Do they just wake up one day and are like, “I don’t want to eat anymore?”
I think it’s more like waking up one day feeling like “I really need some attention”
The ignorance on this website will never cease to blow my mind.
^
September 2011
3 posts
honorary-ebonic asked: I don't understand the correlation between the "clips presented" and "clip reconstructed from brain activity"?
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August 2011
35 posts
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:...”
– Carl Jung (via substancem)
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“It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That’s above...”
– It Kind of a Funny Story
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Social Psychology of Racism
Categorization of People
- Stereotype: categorization based on some sort of similar characteristic, such as a physical appearance, religion, or belief.
- Prejudice: prejudging. Typically a negative attitude about an individual’s membership in a group.
- Discrimination: negative behavior. Actually acting upon one’s beliefs about another individual on the basis of membership in a...
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3 Controversial Mental Disorders
Female Hysteria - Hysteria was a common diagnosis for feisty and disobedient women, dating back to Ancient Greece. Greek philosophers, including Hippocrates and Plato, viewed the womb as a living creature that wandered through a woman’s body, often causing disease. In fact, the word “hysteria” is derived from the Greek word for uterus (hysteria). The most common prescriptions for hysteria were,...
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WatchDavid Fincher’s ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ Official Trailer
This trailer is so A+
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Anonymous asked: don't ignore the fact that you miscatigorized non-24hour sleep syndrome. You should really do your research before you make your posts
theplatonicspreekillers asked: So I read through your entire blog and I quite enjoyed every moment of it.
Also, you have a great taste in music.
Also, you have a great taste in music.
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Pseudologia Fantastica
The defining characteristics of Psuedologia Fantastica are that:
First: the stories told are not entirely improbable and often have some element of truth. They are not a manifestation of delusion or some more intense type of psychosis (upon confrontation, the teller can admit them to be untrue, even if unwillingly).
Second: the fabricative tendency is long lasting; it is not provoked by the...
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“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with...”
– - Lemony Snicket
psychology2010 asked: http://psychology2010.tumblr.com/post/4436886162/i-was-wondering-can-you-do-a-post-about-sleeping
I would assume you would like?
I would assume you would like?
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Psychology In Film: Mysterious Skin
Since we’re kind of on the topic of bad childhood experiences & the effect they have on people growing up, I figured this would be perfect.
Mysterious Skin is about two boys who went through the same traumatic experience together when they were younger, but ended up being effected by it in completely different ways.
*It is seriously the most disturbing movie I have ever seen, there...
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wordsthough asked: I was wondering, if something traumatic/unsavory happens to you as a child can it have lasting effects on your thoughts as an adult? How would combat such a thing?
Anonymous asked: Which feeling is worse: heartbroken due to cheating partner or depression due to lack of love?
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7 Strange Sleeping Disorders
REM Behavior Disorder - Person loses paralysis (normal for REM Period) causing them to freely act out their dreams. These behaviors can be violent in nature & in some cases will result in injury to either the patient or their bed partner.
Night Terrors - A parasomnia sleep disorder characterized by extreme terror & a temporary inability to regain consciousness. The subject wakes...
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the ability to recognize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from false superiority rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory...
“A great many people think that they are thinking when they are merely...”
– William James (via vintage-coffee)
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Distorted Thinking: Catastrophizing
Catastrophizing is an irrational thought a lot of us have. It’s basically the general belief that things will turn out much worse than they actually are. It usually goes one of two ways.
One, you yourself make things shitty~ for example being a student, failing a test & believing that you are an utter failure. When in reality, it is only temporary, & another chance to do better...
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Anonymous asked: Your wording of posts is hilarious/ interesting & makes me want to keep reading forever!
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Watch
GIRL, INTERRUPTED, directed by James Mangold (1999)
Lisa, your Aorta is in your chest.
erimentha-deactivated20110921 asked: This morning I was reading the paper about Mark Twitchell, a would-be serial killer (he got caught after his first murder) in Edmonton, Alberta (idk where you're from, so I won't assume you've heard of him) and the question arose in my mind about whether or not this man IS a psychopath. He claims to be, but copies ficticious pyschopathic characters, even in his thought patterns (he...
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The Psychology of Murder
‘The impulse to murder seems to be universal, but the reasons that men and women yield to it are as varied and mysterious as human history. To most psychiatrists, murder usually implies a defect in the killer’s ego. Sometimes, of course, the motive appears to be nothing more complicated than the desire for material gain. Other times, however, the motive runs much deeper....
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The Butcher of Rostov
Andrei Chikatilo was a Ukranian serial killer nickenamed the Butcher of Rostov. He committed the murders of a minimum of 52 women & children between 1978 & 1990. He established a pattern of approaching children, runaways and young vagrants at bus or railway stations, enticing them to a nearby forest or other secluded area and killing them, usually by stabbing, slashing and...
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The Moors Murders
The ‘Moors Murders’ were carried out by British couple, Ian Brady & Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965. Their victims were 5 children aged between 10 & 17, four of whom were sexually assaulted. The murders are so named because two of their victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor. The body of a fourth victim, Keith Bennett, is also suspected to...
July 2011
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caleciaprincess asked: Hey, um why do you love me so much? Like it is creepy.
I am gonna tell Special:P
I am gonna tell Special:P
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What if they decide to close Facebook tomorrow?
anneekira:
Facebook users would roam the streets in tears, shoving pictures of themselves in people’s faces, and screaming “DO YOU LIKE THIS? DO YOU!?”
Feed your souls, starve your egos.
Preach.
