by Craig Marker | Apr 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
The waiter’s walk might be one of your best tools to build shoulder stability and strength. A waiter’s walk is performed by simply holding a weight overhead and walking. I recommend using a kettlebell, or two. A barbell with a snatch grip or jerk grip works great,...
by Craig Marker | Jul 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt from PsyBlog discussing how perception is affected. Our lab is currently doing research on how fear can affect perception.Jessica K. Witt, an assistant professor at Purdue University, found that golfers who play well are more likely to actually see...
by Craig Marker | Jul 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt from an article describing an interview with Steven Pinker. Of note, is how Pinker paid attention to our deficits in affective forecasting (our ability to predict our future happiness) and forgot to pay attention to cognitive dissonance (how we tend...
by Craig Marker | Jul 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here is a video blog from Scientific America discussing how meditation affects attentional blink:
by Craig Marker | Jul 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here is a portion of an entry written by Scott Adams on how people may have individual differences on the amount of cognitive dissonance that they can handle. Recently I saw the best case of cognitive dissonance I have ever seen. It was on Bill Maher’s show,...
by Craig Marker | Jul 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt from Dan Gilbert in Psychologist magazine discussing ‘revolutions’ in science and social psychology: Psychologists have a penchant for irrational exuberances, and whenever we discover something new we feel the need to discard everything...
