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PsychologyTracking Down the "Embarrassing Memory" NoiseMerlin Mann | Jul 23 2008Compelled to Blurt... | Ask Metafilter Like a lot of people in this Ask Metafilter thread, I thought I was the only person in the universe who made an unconscious little noise when remembering something stupid I did or said.
For context, my tic (which can also be heard when someone near me does something dumb) sounds a little like the noise Leo Bloom makes after he falls on his keys (00:34). "Ooooooom...." read more »26 Comments
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Self-control running low?grant balfour | Mar 12 2008Why is it so hard to say no? Why the heck do I find myself doing things I don't really want to do? In the newsroom where I ostensibly work, I sit right next to that table - the one the people from other publications call "the table of perpetual indulgence." It usually features baked goods and junk food - great vats of candy, tubs of animal crackers, a living sea of bite-sized 3 Musketeers and Special Dark bars. It is, put simply, bad for me to be sitting here. I'm always walking off to the printer then realizing that somehow I've wound up in the opposite direction, lifting syrup-filled brownies toward my mouth. Well, I think I just found out the reason why. read more »POSTED IN:
Jeff Bigler's "tact filter" theoryMerlin Mann | Sep 25 2007
In 1996, Jeff Bigler observed that there appeared to be a "tact filter" that was operated in different directions by "nerds" versus "normal people:" read more »POSTED IN:
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