Friday Fun: My Favorites of 2012!

Hello again PYM readers! The end of 2012 marks the end of our second year as a psychology research blog (the first full year). I feel like a...

Friday Fun: Psychology at the Movies III

www.imdb.com It's been a few months since we last discussed movies on PYM. Since my spouse and I moved to Chambana, we have had a lot of...

Friday Fun: Oxytocin and the Zombie Apocalypse

I got your oxytocin right here! ( source ) If you've been watching AMC's riveting series about zombie apocalypse, the Walking Dead ...

Friday Fun: Science is Slow

Picture by  Scientific American blogger Jason Goldman When I was in my first year as a graduate student, one sage Emeritus professor said t...

Friday Fun: A Postdoc's Running Diary

Not to be confused with this oatmeal ( source ) Last Friday, Amie gave us an all-access pass to her weekly graduate school routine (see it ...

Friday Fun: A Week in the Life of a Grad Student

As a graduate student, I don't punch a clock or fill out a time card. Although I have a faculty advisor, I don't have a boss - no on...

Friday Fun: You Are What You Say

Source Outside of high school English classes, most people don't give much thought to pronouns, prepositions, articles, auxiliary verbs,...

Friday Fun: Mad Men With Power Moves

When Mad Men started it's  final  fifth season on AMC, I received a good laugh when I was alerted to the hashtag #draping . The lead cha...

Friday Fun: It's all an illusion

As our eyes glance over the world around us we are able to quickly grasp a 3-D image of our environment. But can we always trust what we see...

Friday Fun: The Ryan Gosling Obsession

Source When Bradley Cooper was named People Magazine's Sexist Man Alive this year, angry protesters swarmed People's headquarters (...

Friday Fun: An Insider's Guide To Psychology Prose

source I have been writing empirical articles for a little while now, and one of things I have come to notice is that there is a very specif...

Friday Fun: Four factors that keep your relationship fun

For years, psychologists tried to understand why relationships fail. They targeted dysfunction, focusing on factors like negative emotions ...

Friday Fun: Birth Order and Romantic Compatibility

Source Research suggests  that the order in which you were born, relative to your siblings, plays a role in shaping your personality -- olde...

Friday Fun: A few simple tricks for healthier eating

Who could resist? Confession: Today I ate three cookies. Not because I particularly wanted them, but because they were there. I could be a c...

Friday Fun: Michael's Favorite Posts of 2011

source This year has been a wonderful ride for Psych Your Mind. We've had over 130 entries since the blog started in mid March of last y...

Friday Fun: Holiday Edition

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Happy Holidays Everyone! As many of us head home for the Christmas weekend, we can look forward to rel...

Friday Fun: Are you a good "mind-reader"? Take the test!

Can you read my mind? Do you think this guy is: (a) playful (b) comforting (c) irritated (d) bored Being able to "mind-read" is a ...

Friday Fun: At the Movies With A Psychologist (Twilight Edition)

source This past weekend I was among the fortunate viewers of Twilight: Breaking Dawn (part I). Now, you might be asking yourself, "Mic...

A Gene for Empathy?

We hope you had a great Thanksgiving yesterday, I know I ate more than my share of pumpkin pie and apple pie!  Today, we have another awesom...

Friday Fun: A Healthy Skepticism About Science?

"There are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data, so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects....