Description : Why are people so quick to judge one another?
Last Answer : answer:I kind of think that it may be an evolutionary hold over that has been mated with centuries of the development of social norms and customs. In the early days of human kind, we had to ... survival effectiveness with judgments of how well they fit into our notions of good society. Make sense?
Description : Have you ever become the very person you used to judge and criticize?
Last Answer : I used to think prostate issues only happened to old guys.
Description : What do you think about the way society seems to categorise and judge peoples' 'success'?
Last Answer : Who cares what others think, Its what you think thats important. If you feel sucessfull, thats good enough.
Description : Do you find that those who are quick to judge (others), tend to be the most unhappy in life?
Last Answer : jjmah personally, don’t ever judge others…I’ve enough problems with myself.
Description : Does anyone know what happened to psychoneuroimmunology, and why we don't hear so much about it these days?
Last Answer : There is an active research center for psychoneuroimmunology where I work. I don't think it has gone anywhere. If you look at the pubmed timeline, it seems to have been well-studied in ... with a larger resurgence in recent years: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=psychoneuroimmunology&sort=date
Description : We all still have a lot to learn about things in this life, so why can't the average person admit that about their driving skills?
Last Answer : I drive a golfball better than some people drive their vee-hick-erls. That’s okay though, so long as they stay the fuck away from me.
Description : What is a scientific reason of why we have this insatiable penchant for things that look so cute?
Last Answer : If mothers didn’t fall passionately and unconditionally in love w. their infants, they (moms) would be tempted to dash baby’s head against a wall at times. That’s my scientific theory, right until proven wrong.
Description : Why are we so persistent to achieve an acquired taste for something?
Last Answer : I’d say peer pressure and/or pressures to conform. I’d say, too, that sometimes it’s just a matter of taste changing over time. (and hi mfl!)
Description : Be you ever so quick, with vision keen, by your eyes, we are never seen. Unless perchance it should come to pass, you see our reflection in a looking glass. What are we? -Riddles
Last Answer : Your own eyes.
Description : Do we judge ourselves by the content of our fantasies?
Last Answer : hominid: Your Q makes perfect sense to me, I’ll have to think a bit before answering. Your caffeine level was up to the task. :-)
Description : Upon extraterrestrial contact with a technologically superior race, we discover they value and promote concepts that challenge human norms. Would we judge them as bad, or convert ourselves to their way of being?
Last Answer : answer:Why would they kill handicapped children at birth, when they have the ability to erase/prevent any sort of birth defect with ease? In any case, you can be guaranteed that such conditions ... being allowed to own anything, even the ruling political and corporate elite would not agree to this.
Description : Why can't we accurately judge amounts of food?
Last Answer : Why not take smallish portions and then plan to go back for seconds, if that is an option at your dining room? The expression “Your eyes are bigger than your stomach” became part of the common parlance for a reason.
Description : Should we try and understand a mass killer's mindset?
Last Answer : Yes we should. My idea is revenge for being given a raw deal in school, dating , work ?
Description : Why does love lose its wonder as we get older (or does it)?
Last Answer : We get older. We have seen more and experienced more. Everything – not just love – is something we have done before. Call it worn down, call it jaded, we’ve seen it all before and it isn’t as exciting.
Description : If it was 1950 right now, what sort of questions would we see on ask-public?
Last Answer : ”Now they are trying to give N***** the same rights as whites! Are we living in the end times?”
Description : Why do we mirror others' feelings?
Last Answer : You don’t think empathy a positive trait? My friend’s kid dies and I shouldn’t be sad about it? Are you asking why we pretend to be sad when we don’t care? The answer to that one is that it is expected, as you said, “social glue.”
Description : Do we have a winner?
Last Answer : Are you referring to the self pleasuring driver? I don’t think you had to worry about him spreading his seed.
Description : What are we to make of people like Joseph Smith and L Ron Hubbard?
Last Answer : answer:Smith had a history of arrests for fraud. His wife left him over the golden tablet nonsense, if I remember correctly. I believe she also threw the first copy of his book in the ... Smith was illiterate). Hubbard was openly quoted as stating he was starting a religion for the money racket.
Description : Why do you think time seems to go faster as we get older?
Last Answer : Time is relative and static but at this stage of life it seems like someone hit the fast forward button.
Description : Is there an evolutionary explanation for why we feel anger?
Last Answer : Increases testosterone, heightens senses and improves reaction time, and dulls physical pain. Few other things I can’t recall, but it’s a useful emotion that helped when we needed to fend for our lives.
Description : How can we change which trades can apprentice?
Last Answer : An apprenticeship implies that you won’t be paid. Your payment, as it were, is learning the trade.
Description : Why do we like the things we like?
Last Answer : Look at the excerpt of this book: This Is Your Brain on Music. I want to read it but it looks like it can explain some things about why people like music.
Description : Do you think we truly have choice?
Last Answer : They like to let us believe we have a choice,but I think that is an illusion.
Description : When we are very reactive to certain people, does it say more about us or them?
Last Answer : I agree, the deeper the wound the harder to recover, if at all. When we have these issues, obviously you have to look at yourself. We must have self esteem and insecurity issues to let these people hurt ... seem to be insensitive souls with no love in their hearts. I don't want to be like that.
Description : Isn't it true that we come up with our most meaningful words when we find our face in the dust?
Last Answer : Not necessarily although painful times can lead to growth.
Description : Can we stop?
Last Answer : I need to rewatch the clip over a hundred times to find anything that I can interpret into a conspiracy theory.
Description : What have we learned from science about the nature of learning?
Last Answer : There have been many studies of learning styles done There is a summary of the research in this blog article critical of one study pooh-poohing learning styles.
Description : How do we help society reintegrate its prisoners?
Last Answer : Ideally, I'd like to see more focus on rehabilitation. I'd like to see people who are jailed on drug offenses put through treatment programs, and just let the potheads go. That may be ... used with juveniles or prisoners who are diagnosed with mental illness. Is this vision realistic? Probably not.
Description : Why do you suppose that we find the transit of Venus exciting?
Last Answer : Personally, I have always been amazed at the accuracy of the predictions. (Plus I can finally use the word “ephemerides”.)
Description : Is there a scientific explanation for how we can feel someone staring at us?
Last Answer : Well, I'd argue the whole brain is designed to keep us a live. We're built to determine within a quick second whether we are attracted to someone, or fear them. Should we fear ... and might like it, and therefore stay in the vicinity. The hypothalamus controls our initial emotional disbursements.
Description : Where could I find a good book on how we remember thing and retrieve information on a psychological level?
Last Answer : Boost Your Memory
Description : Psychology question: How is temporal contiguity related to the mistakes we often make?
Last Answer : I have never heard the term but I imagine the mistakes could be made if you felt that one of the stimuli was the cause of the other. Let's say a child reaches out and touches a ... right before a parent was injured would mistakenly believe that their actions caused the injury. Does that make sense?
Description : Do you think there is a typical amount of identities we take on?
Last Answer : I think those of use who have integrated identity politics into our lives consider many different aspects of our lives. Others usually have 3-5 that they can list and it usually goes like this wife, ... something. It's not often that people consider race or ableism or how old they are or anything.
Description : Collective memory question: how soon do we forgive... (insert your celebrity here, and then add the time it takes, in your opinion, to forgive them).
Last Answer : answer:Not sure I’m doing this right, but here goes…. Lionel Richie. His discography. I say, we should forgive him in 2048.
Description : How is it that as children we wail at any slight, and as adults we quietly suffer atrocities?
Last Answer : answer:Good question. As far as where exactly that line should be drawn I don't know, but it would differ greatly based on personal taste. I'm sure certain people would like having the patience to deal with ... of a pin to an elephant. Still damn annoying to be sure, but nothing to make a fuss over.
Description : How do we know that homophobia doesn't exist in other species?
Last Answer : I’m wondering how we would quantify homophobia in another species?
Description : When we protect our children from certain kinds of knowledge, are we protecting their psychological health, or are we protecting ourselves from dealing with uncomfortable subects?
Last Answer : answer:One must go with the gut feel on this one. The TV has its ratings scheme but most parents by default know their kids best. Err on the safe side I guess. If a parent is uncertain about ... follow I guess. Just the ability to adapt to present situations in your kid's life and growth process.
Description : Why did we evolve feelings when other organisms supposedly didn't, according to currently accepted explanations?
Last Answer : Im not sure how you can say other organisms dont have feelings? You dont think a dog, cat or any other animal for that matter can feel happy or sad? Loved or abandoned?
Description : Why do we talk out loud to ourselves?
Last Answer : I usually don’t, but I have a hearing impairment so, no need!
Description : Are we all unique, or are we, as human beings, all the same?
Last Answer : We are all genetically unique but part of the same human species – still, I tend to think people are mostly different than the same underneath it all..though societal forces are such that many sublimate their quirks in favor of acceptance.
Description : Do we live in the physical world or the one we create in our minds?
Last Answer : Since I did not imagine that tree limb that bashed me in the forehead when I wasn’t looking where I was going…I’m going to say we live in the physical world.
Description : What do we mean when we say "me"? A thought experiment.
Last Answer : What does this have to do with the word ‘me’?
Description : If we abolish airport security, will the airlines become safe at last?
Last Answer : I don't think so. Although I'm not thrilled with the new scanning technology out there, I think there should always be airport security. It's not so much if there was a device on a plane which ... got off my plane to retrieve it. At my city's airport there have been lots of thefts with luggage.
Description : Do people make us feel things or are we always responsible for how we feel?
Last Answer : I think it's a combination of the two. If I'm feeling low I can talk to a friend and they'll cheer me up. Did I become happier all on my own? On the flipside, you can always gain control of ... to make me mad at all. Our surroundings always make us feel, but we can control how strong the feeling is.
Description : Are we the creators of our own problems?
Last Answer : I do not think that is wholly true. I think many of our personal problems stem from unresolved childhood wounds. In the sense that we don’t address those issues, we then perpetuate our problems and keep them from being resolved. I don’t think it is usually a conscious choice though.
Description : Are we living in a delusion as it pertains to the word safe?
Last Answer : I would say not feeling threatened is safe regardless of where you are. To put it simply. But I am interested in seeing what others say.
Description : Why do we find it necessary to joke around with the people we are comfortable with?
Last Answer : Usually it’s because we’re too uncomfortable to express our true feelings of affection or comradery.
Description : Do you think we grow in wisdom or just decrepitude as we age?
Last Answer : Predictably, I like being my age and find the balance between wisdom, humor,and humility and aches, creaks and fatigue is a felicitous one.
Description : If all mental illnesses are a result of a physical ailment, shouldn't we be telling our GP everything, not bothering with shrinks at all?
Last Answer : How are all mental illnesses the result of a physical ailment again?
Description : Hello.Why do we instantly dislike someone?
Last Answer : because of their shifty eyes and halitosis.