My Psychology Research Origin Story

S&S Prompt: Psychology

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Of the silly questions I get
about my graduate degree
here are the top few:
Can you read my mind?
Will you agree with me that
we are all a little bit “crazy”?
Did you start studying psychology
to psychoanalyze yourself and your past?

To that last one,
I constantly have to say no.

I have to explain
that psychology as a field
encompasses more than Freud,
branching deep and wide
into the social realm
looking at interactions between humans
at a larger scale,

to investigating human cognition
by comparing it to animal cognition
in comparative cognition and psychology

to the intersection
between mind and body
in a myriad of ways
including but not limited to
how biological rhythms
that cyclically occur
influence how we think, feel, experience.