Comments on: What Everyone Should Know About Their Own Minds

By: divinespiritlove

divinespiritlove — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:35:00 +0000

Thank you for posting this article. I also try hard to work on understanding the brain as much as humanly possible and this article helps tremendously. My appreciation to you is in the highest sense.
To show you my gratitude I would like to share with you a post I found that also helps with this: http://consciousflex.blogspot.com/2008/01/your-brain-does-not-know-difference-by.html
Thank you indeed. I hope it helps you and others who read this as much as this post of yours as helped, please keep up the incredible work in helping others!

By: PinkFox

PinkFox — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:56:00 +0000

Thanks for the good info

By: kassady

kassady — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:16:00 +0000

I also find this very interesting. I agree with what reheated said, all the efforts of modern psychology have only uncovered what the wisest philosophers knew already. I think people hang on every word of what people tell them and if more people were to read into things like this for example they would be better off.

By: ReHeated

ReHeated — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:22:00 +0000

It's ironic, really, that all the efforts of modern psychology have only uncovered what the wisest philosophers knew already. "We know nothing of ourselves, we knowers", said Nietzsche. Precisely.

On other matters - nice blog. You might be interested in these links:
http://reheated.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/inside-homers-brain/
http://mtblog.typepad.com/mt_blog/2008/01/a-great-thing-a.html

By: Paddy

Paddy — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:33:00 +0000

Jeremy,

Yes, behavioural studies are preferable, but sometimes things get in the way:
- Not everyone working in this field knows how to set up a proper behavioral study
- Some differences we're interested in are too subtle for the sensitivity of the testing we can reasonably do
- Resource limitations

Unfortunately this means that people fall back on verbal data, with the assumption that it's "better than nothing"...

Paddy

By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author)

Jeremy (PsyBlog author) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:34:00 +0000

Hi Paddy, glad it's useful. Presumably you need to focus on behavioural studies to get the data on usability rather than asking people directly?

By: Paddy

Paddy — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:35:00 +0000

I find this area very interesting. Some of this stuff I knew about already, some was new, and it was great to have it all summarized together.

I am a psychologist working in an applied area, that of software usability. I'm suspicious of some of the ways that software usability is assessed because of the research you describe. However, sometimes it's a hard sell, unfortunately.

By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author)

Jeremy (PsyBlog author) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:16:00 +0000

Chris, that's a very good question to which I don't know the answer. I wonder if any research has been done on this?

Anon, probably best to email me directly about this.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:59:00 +0000

I find your website intruiging. I have carried out a survey on the internet on the psychologies of every day life: such as whether love is entwined with hate, money cannot buy you happiness but you have to pay the price and you don't have to use a revolver to have a revolution. I had some enlightening answers. Could you assess it or have it assessed for me?

By: Chris Marshall | Martial Development

Chris Marshall | Martial Development — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:22:00 +0000

Having explored the average person's innate capacity for self-knowledge, to what degree can this be improved with training?