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This isn't something that I researched personally, but was a project of one of my fellow classmates. There have been studies done that show that the color of words causes miscalculations in their meanings when flashed for short periods on a screen. For example, positive words flashed in a dark font were more often mispercieved than positive words in a light font. My fellow classmate decided to take this concept and apply it to another level.

Instead of using font color, she used the position of the word on the screen. She would flash words at the top or bottom of the screen. Those flashed at the bottom would have more judgement errors than those flashed at the top. Interesting, ne? Has some implications for marketing and logo design, dosen't it?

Does your research look into the developement of language? That might be an interesting angle for you to approach. Chmosky's got his own ideas, but so do alot of other notable psychologist such as Piaget and Skinner.

I don't need no outside motivator to conduct psychological research! I have humans here!


Research 1
(I really did them)

Stimulated the subjects genitalia while he was watching pictures of fat cats. After some time whenever he watched a picture of a fat cat he began to have a sexual response. The strange thing is that it didn't generalize on normal cats, but just on pictures of cats.

Research 2
I've discovered that people are 100% not logical. One of the main foreces human operate is cultural conditioning. Just today someone said "You're a mouse!", because he thought it was cool. There was nothing logical in that. The only thing that caused him to do that was the conditioning of his friend

Hello Recently I made researche on how the level of extraversion (E) and introversion(I) infualces the relationship duration. I was wondering what people think about this.
Do people create couples on the basis of diversity or similarity?
which relation ships would lats longest? E&E, I&I or I&E?

well the results were quite interesting. The mean of a relationship was about 23 months. The longest relationsships were achived by I&I (46 months!) so quite impressive. so the law of similarity seems to be the key. but we haven't get the same results for E&E it was obout 22 months. the same results for the mixed couples. However the was a majority of mixed couples.all the results were statisticly significant.

we don't really know the reasons for such results but we think that two E can get bored with each other while I don't meet so many people. This may be the reason why they don't change partners so often. But these are only assumptions.

the sample was quite big (39 couples). We even followed the rules of randomization

Any comments? Maybe some similar studies?

I am currently doing research into alternative treatments & holistic medicine for use in psychological disorders.

I currently am limited to surveys and case studies, but I hope to get a full experiment underway within the next 2 years....I just need the university backing and funding.