Category: Psychology
It's looks to me like people are blaming the boyfriend and his poor judgment for the accident and the grace of God for this girls ability to physically pull the boyfriend out and down the hill (as well as her being a nurse in training or something, as well running into trauma nurses at the bottom). Now I don't hang out with many religious folks so I'm not sure how consistent this is but I've definitely seen this before (anyone want to do the study?!).
This is very similar to the ultimate attribution error to me, except that it doesn't focus on an out-group. The ultimate attribution error is a common cognitive bias that causes people to attribute behavior of out-group (ethnic, social, or anyone not like us) members to either internal or external factors depending on whether it was a positive or negative outcome. So if someone does something positive, like the other team winning, it was an external factor - such as the weather or home-field advantage. On the other hand if someone does something stupid it wasn't because the situation led them to it, instead it was them being a dumbass - like the boyfriend falling into the water.
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Posted by The Omnibrain at 11:16 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
According to Nicholas Epley from the University of Chicago: "Biological reproduction is not a very efficient way to alleviate one's loneliness, but you can make up people when you're motivated to do so," said Nicholas Epley, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business....
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Posted by The Omnibrain at 2:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Parapsychology
The mind is a complicated and a still very much unknown entity. The earliest conceptions of the mind didn't even have it placed in the brain, instead it was very much separate from the body. This is of course all very silly, the only possibility is that the mind wholly...
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Posted by The Omnibrain at 6:29 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Celebrate with Omni Brain today - It's a Festivus for the rest of us! What are your feats of strength going to be this year?...
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Category: Research
Clearly many problems with this study were missed in the peer review process.
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Category: Religion
The one... the only... Jesus made from Sushi and Chopsticks! Actually... that's a cucumber for the head, ginger for the body, and shrimp fins (or whatever they're called) for the legs. I tried to make a crown out of onion but it didn't work too well. I ate the body...
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Posted by The Omnibrain at 4:36 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
Or why fat smoking republicans are responsible for 9/11. Do you want to know why you aren't getting comments on your blog? Do you wonder why you manage to piss off everyone you come across? Your answer is here! in this fabulous new equation that will determine how many comments...
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Posted by The Omnibrain at 11:29 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Drugs
Addiction, homelessness, and science vs. ideology.
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Posted by Sandra Kiume at 8:00 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Psychiatry
Joel of the Pax Nortana blog imagines dinner at a bipolar restaurant: You would be surrounded by frowning people. The food would be hospital food. If you did not eat it, they would not let you go home until you did. The food would make you constipated or dizzy...
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Posted by Sandra Kiume at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sex
...just kidding! It's nearly every month that a new study comes out showing that abstinence only programs don't do shit. This time a study from Oxford shows, through a meta-analysis of 13 different U.S. trials, that none of the abstinence-only programmes had an impact on the age at which individuals...
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