Postcards from the Funny Farm

These were some great psychology and inspiration posts I ran across last week.

Gerard Keegans Psychology Site: Psychology Art
From the page: “Here we have various fascinating pictures with a psychological connection.”

Which Way is She turning? - [IQTest] &8212; Re...
i think i know i can do it.. but not while focusing on it

i am neurotic.
Enter your issue(s) and get a diagnosis! Fun and maybe helpful.

Top 10 Strange Phenomena of the Mind - The List Un...
From the page: “While most of us are familiar with one or two on this list, many others are mostly unknown outside of the psychological realm. This is a list of the top ten strange mental phenomena. ”

List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free enc...
Everyone should be aware of all of these. I think we’d be a lot better off on the whole if we all understood the extent of our own fallibility.

TESTdex - index of free personality tests and int...
I am always looking for personality tests online. You’ll find many of them linked here as well as iq tests.

Chinese Love Horoscope
I love this. A fun thing to do with your wife. I sent it over to my wife in an email across the room and we had a laugh or two looking at it.

wellbeingandhealth.net & Blog Archive &...
My friend, a therapist in Canada, wrote a thought provoking guest post: From my comment there: “I think there are varying degrees of being “in sync” with mind, body, Earth. I can’t seem to give up my Starbucks but I still feel a concrete part of my surroundings with or without it.”

Persuasion and How to Influence Others - Psych Ce...
From the page: “There are six widely used successful principles of influence:”

Never Say Die: Why We Cant Imagine Death: Scientif...
From the page: “Why do we wonder where our mind goes when the body is dead? Shouldn’t it be obvious that the mind is dead, too?”