Psychology and More

Counting down (or up) – guess the 10,000th edublogs.org blog creation time and get a free domain and hosting at incorporated subversion:

Here’s a mini technorati competition, heh, if you can predict the closest time and date – GMT +11 – that the 10,000th edublogs.org blog is created then I’ll buy you a free domain, and chuck in some hosting too… all you have to do is to post to your blog the time you guess at, link to this post, and I’ll furnish you with the domain of your choice and hosting for a year.

Hmmm… I’ll go with — June 15th — 7:34am.

This quote came across my screen today:

Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

- Alfred Hitchcock

An excellent description of the catharsis hypothesis. Very little empirical support exists for such a thing, by the way. Seeing violence generally increases the likelihood of engaging in violence later.

Technorati Tags: attitudes, peace psychology, aggression