Sometimes it’s easy to make quick and rash judgments, especially in social situations. In some cases, we are quick to attribute fault to the individual, claiming that it is something fundamental about them instead of examining the full picture. Through
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Targeting Guns by Alexa Montemayor
Photo by Betsy Farrell on Good Housekeeping http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/news/a47914/florida-school-shooting-victims-list/ O’Brien and colleagues (2013) argued that racism-related attitudes can predict whether or not their gun ownership and gun-control attitudes. Data from the American National Election Study (ANES) encompassed an individual’s demographic,
Post-Election: How is Our Mental Health? by Peter Goldie
In the wake of the 2016 U.S. election, mental health is crucial and must be acknowledged. For many people, including people of color, low SES, the LGBT community, chronically ill people, differently abled people, and many other marginalized populations, an
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Student Artwork: Freya Chen
Nature vs. Nurture? This is a greatly debated question in psychology, i.e., whether human behaviors and personalities are influenced under the environment or if they are determined at birth. While genetics determines eye color, hair color, and height, such physical properties are hardly to be changed permanently. Yet, how one behaves can be affected. The human outlines resemble inherited traits while the bamboo growing resembles potential growth under the influence of outside factor.
This piece is created under the story of Aung San Suu Kyi, a female activist in Myanmar. Her actions revealed braveness, determination, as well as patriotism, which reflects one of the important themes in psychology, that behaviors are influenced by multi-factors, including the environment, culture and heredity.
This piece is an example of visual illusion – when our vision deceives us. Due to color constancy, there is a difference in size of the two figures even though the two figures are actually the same size.
So long, Stress! by Sarah Gouriche
So long, Stress! It’s that time of the semester again, where midterms plague all students and just the mere mention of 12 page papers leaves chills running down spines. As college students, we are no strangers to the inconvenience of