Hey its the weekend… so lets have some fun! If you are the kind of person who likes quizzes this next post will be just up your street! Want to find out your personality type? Are you a big thinker or an idealist or another of 16 personality types. ‘What am I like?’ the personality test
Source: BBC The Human Mind

We have all heard of experts who fail basic tests of sensory discrimination in their own field: wine snobs who can’t tell red from white wine (albeit in blackened cups), or art critics who see deep meaning in random lines drawn by a computer. We delight in such stories since anyone with pretensions to authority is fair game. But what if we shine the spotlight on choices we make about everyday things? Experts might be forgiven for being wrong about the limits of their skills as experts, but could we be forgiven for being wrong about the limits of our skills as experts on ourselves? link to continue reading
Source: New Scientist

What is up with female hormonal swings? someone, presumably a man, had written on a card. Hormones can be like gasoline on a fire, Julie Helmrich calmly explained. “I know you think they’re bad on the outside,” she said into her wireless microphone. “You should feel what it’s like on the inside.” Then Helmrich, a clinical psychologist of 29 years, offered some advice. “This is going to sound like a joke, but I think it’s wise for you to monitor your wife’s periods,” she said. “You talk about stuff later.” So it goes at “Shrink ‘n’ Drink,” a Q-and-A session convened by Helmrich one evening each month at Cranky Al’s. About 40 adults buy themselves a little beer or wine, maybe some pizza, and take in 90 minutes of wise counsel. link to continue reading

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Source:Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Physorg.com