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My goal is to win the Nobel Prize by 2063
I’ve decided. This is what I’m going to do. It’s Nobel Prize or bust! Not because I care about the prize. I mean, it’d be cool and all. But because of what it does: it opens doors. When you have a Nobel Prize, doors open. You get a seat at the conversation. And you get…
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Can we please stop talking about Evolutionary Psychology?
I’ve just started my second subject in my psych degree and I’ve already heard more about evolutionary psychology than anyone realistically should. We need to confine it to the scrap heap of psychological theories and talk about it as a fun oddity, rather than a major psychological school of thought. Here are three reasons why:…
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One Thing I Don’t Understand About Behaviouralism
We’re studying a lot of Behaviouralism (which I guess is to be expected in the first year of psych) and there’s one issue with it that I just can’t work out. Behaviouralists talk about how the mind is an unknowable black box and there’s no point in investigating it so let’s just stick to focussing…
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The Core Human Desire
Had a really interesting breakthrough the other day based on a conversation with Rav Suri about the core human desire. I was explaining the foundations of PNST and was covering the psychological needs. He asked ‘Why are these psychological needs? What drives them?’ I didn’t have an answer at the time, but I’ve since discovered…