Suspicious of Szondi

Anyone who has studied Psychology has inevitably been taught that due to its relative youth as a branch of knowledge, there have been a couple of wacky ideas attempting to explain human behaviour. One of these was the Szondi test, that I believed had widely been established as being faulty…

The Enneagram, vocational personality test and fortune telling

Last Christmas when I was having dinner with my cousins’ family, we had a conversation about how my uncle went to see a fortune teller for my two cousins. The fortune teller predicted that one of my cousins was going to…

What makes you stressed?

Stress is a complicated phenomenon to say the least. Most people know the basics: stress has to do with the hormone…

2 hours. 10 stations. 10 minutes each.

You stand behind a closed door. There is a paper in front of…

I Choose You: HR & Psychological Testing

Have you ever walked into an interview and just stopped and wondered: How does the…

Swiping Right

10 years ago, I can say with utmost confidence that if you told people that sometime in the future there will be an online dating app…

Write or Type

In our careers as student’s many of us have experienced that one class taught by a professor with a no-laptop policy. I myself have had several professors who started off the semester by explaining that laptops will not be allowed in their classroom. The reasoning is always the same. Studies have shown…

Tests or human’s universal desire for certainty

Have we gone too far with our desire to test and quantify everything?

A Life-Changing Academic Decision

“How old are you?”

“Wait, I don’t understand, you’re so young!”

“Weren’t you supposed to be in the grade below?”

These are the typical responses I get every time I tell someone my age. I was…

The Perfect Personality Test — Ignorance is Bliss

The Power of the Questions

While I was looking for a topic to talk about in my blog, I stumbled upon an interesting TED Talk by Dr. Dan Ariely who was talking about decision-making. I have always been fascinated about cognitive psychology and I decided to listen to it. I learned something very interesting…

Daycare: where diagnosis doesn’t equal “health, safety and dignity” for children with mental illness

Are You Simply Your Test Score?

Standardized tests have a long history. Basic forms of testing date back to second millennium China BC. Though these tests…

Tests from a homeschooler’s perspective

Growing up home-schooled, tests were never a particularly salient part of my life. Compared to my friends who went to public school, I was able to simply enjoying learning without worrying about being evaluated. After we finish a chapter of biology, my parents…

What do your standardized test results say about you?

Most students first encounter high-stakes standardized tests in their final years of high school, when preparing their applications for university. The most common test are the SATs. Within our cohort of undergraduate psychology…

Brain Training Games: Cure or Con?

In recent years there has been a noticeable surge in the popularity of brain training games especially through electronic…

The SAT: Time For A Change?

In the United States, every student considering education past high school is faced with the dreaded SAT. It’s a long, daunting exam that compares students across the world. But, are the results of this exam actually meaningful?