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[kentaropjj]

#BigShellIncident #neverforget 4/29/2009

[kentaropjj]

#BigShellIncident #neverforget 4/29/2009

[homicidalheroine]

"I remember we had to come up with experiments which wouldn’t be approved because of ethics violations." What was yours?

I think it was something about whether or not children could be engineered to be sociopaths. I'm not sure whether I was one of the "telling" answers or not  :P 

[homicidalheroine]

Why psychology? What is your favourite and least favourite aspect of it?

People are interesting! I've liked looking at what can go wrong with the mind since I was about 12 or so? And I was reading quite heavily on body language (and how to manipulate it) before that. My favourite parts of it are the parts related to abnormal psychology and to behaviour. My least favourite part is probably developmental psychology, just because I really don't care enough about children for it to be particularly interesting? I also must admit to not always being too fond of the ethics side of things-- things like the Milgram experiment (where participants told to administer what they believed were increasing levels of electric shocks to another participant, as a look into people's obedience to authority figures) are really interesting, but they might well not pass an ethics board today. I understand why the ethics boards are in place, though. As part of a lab assignment in first year, I remember we had to come up with experiments which wouldn't be approved because of ethics violations. Our tutor told us that some of our answers were 'very telling', heh.I would really love to take forensic psychology next year. It's one of the areas I'm really interested in looking at. The course was cancelled this year, though, so I'm really hoping it'll be offered next year. I would actually consider switching universities for that paper. Crime is another thing which has always fascinated me (as part of the 'what can go wrong', I suppose), and I think that forensic psychology and criminal profiling just look so interesting?

[incendiarism]

Yosuke, why is your wind green?

"Dude, are you trying to make a fart joke?"

[incendiarism]

Yosuke, why did you talk about how you have no friends when Chie is like your best partner in crime ever? :C

"That was some time ago..."

"But now I have all the friends I'll ever need.  Inaba's not so bad, after all."

[incendiarism]

Yosuke, how do you serve customers with giant headphones on?

"Huh?"

"Well, I don't have them on ALL the time.  My dad makes me take them off when I'm working.  Not even allowed to have them around my neck..."