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POPSSo You Think They Noticed? Ever made a verbal gaffe in a presentation at work and thought to yourself, "I must have looked stupid"? Or had a date who burped loudly in a classy restaurant and you thought, "Great, I'll never be able to show my face here again"? In social psychology, the "spotlight effect" refers to our tendency to overestimate the amount of attention people pay to our actions--especially the embarrassing ones. Oftentimes it's all just in our mind. So don't fret over the mismatched socks.
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POPSThat land that I live in has God on its side? "That land that I live in has God on its side," Bob Dylan sang in 1963, cynically reprising a go-to justification for war. That is, believers think they're doing the Lord's work—sometimes a dangerous inclination. http://www.psychologytoday.com/rss/pto-20080916-000003.html
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POPSShouting At The Devil "Why in the hell do we stubbornly cling to a system that enables a fraction of a percent of the population to live in OBSCENE opulence while 35,000 of our fellow human beings die of starvation-related causes each day? Are the rest of us truly inane enough to believe that asinine myth that any of us has a REALISTIC chance of becoming the next Bill Gates, if we “just work hard enough.” Or that there is an ounce of moral virtue in pursuing the accumulation of excessive wealth?"
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