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Quick Look At: Too real means too creepy in new Disney animation – USA Today News

A Quick Look At: Too real means too creepy in new Disney animation – USA Today News By Ryan Nakashima, AP Business Writer Allow me to quote from the beginning of this article (links added): Computer animation has a problem: When it gets too realistic, it starts creeping people out. Most recently, moviegoers complained about […]

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UPDATE: Is Stevens’s Archetypal System of Sexuality a Form of GBAE?

In earlier posts (see posts from December 21st, 2010, and January 4th, 6th, 12th, and 20th, 2011), I have talked about what I call the Grand Bowlbian Attachment Environment (or GBAE for short). In my earlier posts I have argued that the GBAE holds the behavioral systems of caregiving, attachment, and sex. Bowlby’s ethological studies (e.g., […]

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Quick Look: Charts Show Growing Rich-Poor Gap

Quick Look: Separate but unequal: Charts show growing rich-poor gap – Yahoo! News. by Zachary Roth This a quick follow-up to my February 18th, 2011, post wherein I comment on a news article entitled, How the Middle Class Became the Underclass. The growing income gap is a topic that we have been tracking for some time now. […]

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Quick Update: Japan’s Chatty Humanoid and a Migraine that Goes Viral

In my post of February 16th, 2011, entitled How Much Do You Know About What You Don’t Know? I talk about how my own experience with migraine headaches demonstrates how we can know something about what we don’t know. At about the same time I was writing my post, a video showing a reporter in […]

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Hold the Presses—Why Are We So Attached to the Vitalism of Bowlbian Attachment Theory?

In a series of posts that started back on December 9th, 2010, I’ve been looking at the following question: “Do mothers (therapists) really attach to their babies (clients)?” I’ve suggested that within a reductionistic worldview, the answer is probably “yes.” However, within a naturalistic systems theory worldview (the one that Bowlby principally used), the answer […]

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