Pop-Psychology

After watching Fox’s pilot for their new show, Lie to Me, the other night, I did a little research to find out whether or not it’s actually possible to tell whether or not someone’s lying just by looking at their face. Long story short? Yes, it is. Continued

Everyone does it. You do it, I do it, and all of the people that you meet, know, and interact with every day do it. We cling to little words and phrases, cadence and pronunciation, that differentiate the ways that we talk from those around us. I’m not a linguist and I haven’t explored this phenomenon in great detail, but I do know that a significant portion of the reasoning behind these natural differences stems from the individual, familial, and cultural backgrounds that each of us have. Continued

After finishing Malcolm Gladwell’s most recent masterpiece, Outliers, which details success in relation to culture and opportunity, I decided to explore a small opportune phenomenon of my own. When I was a child, I attended Montessori school at the wishes of my parents. Essentially, the idea behind these schools is to expose children to new ideas and individual learning experiences from an early age to create well-rounded individuals with a unique desire to learn. While I didn’t know it at the time, my days at Montessori were beginning to shape the way in which I interact with and view the world even today. Continued