Psyc 406–2015

Buzzed about BuzzFeed: Why We Love Online Quizzes

I remember sitting in computer class in high school with one of my best friends, hopping from website to website taking as many personality quizzes we could find. Which Harry Potter character would we marry? Which city should we live in? What…

Math isn’t so bad

All throughout my compulsory education I have never enjoyed the subject of math. It was in fact my least favorite subject in high school and I disliked it so much it bordered on hatred. I know most people reading this will probably agree (you know you do, don’t lie!)

Let’s Talk about Motivation

I bet many of you have taken Dr. Koestner’s class about human motivation. (If you have not, I strongly suggest you to take it!) His course has three big components: How to achieve what you want to achieve, how to become an expert, and how to motivate others to become experts.

Living in the Moment: Reflections on the Momentary Impulsivity Scale

Chemistry

Is romantic chemistry a psychological phenomenon? Or perhaps a desperate attempt at making sense of human relations. When it comes to relationships, people (myself included) love to decipher each partners own personality as an explanation on how the ended up together. We think that there is some magic code…

2380 on SAT But Can’t Read A Newspaper

This may sound rather sad, but three years later I’m still pretty peeved at the SAT.

I didn’t pay for any special prep courses. I didn’t pay for a tutor. The best thing I had to prepare with was a used SAT prep book I did practice…

Can we identify elite athletes through personality tests?

Is the Big Five Universal?

It has been elucidated in voluminous number of studies using the Big Five Inventory that Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Openness and Neuroticism are personality traits that can be found across a wide range of population. Nevertheless, an article published in 2012…

So what if I’m not good at item patterns?

Unfortunately getting questions wrong on an intelligence test because it is culturally biased and not because one is less intelligent can happen frequently for minorities. In this case the test in inappropriate for a certain audience, when it does not test…