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[...] this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

- Socrates's opinion on the written word.
In Plato, The Phaedrus

Não sou de me martirizar com pensamentos negativos, mas overall não me parece um mau conselho!

A prominent habit changing therapist once told me this great technique for changing bad thought patterns. When you start to think negative thoughts, use the word “but” to interrupt it. “I’m no good at this, but, if I work at it I might get better later.”

- Scott Young via Lifehack  

Who run the world? Girls!

"According to the Portuguese National Statistics Institute, there are more employed women in Portugal than men"
- Euromonitor International

Continuamos a bater estes records idióticos

"Portugal is one of the countries with the highest rates of cars per inhabitant in the EU."
- Euromonitor International

É por isto que eu vou para a cama cedo

"Xie et al found that metabolic waste products of neural activity were cleared out of the sleeping brain at a faster rate than during the awake state. This finding suggests a mechanistic explanation for how sleep serves a restorative function, in addition to its well-described effects on memory consolidation."

- Science's newsletter: This week in Science, 18-10-2013

Human beings are natural story tellers.
- in McAdams & McLean, 2013.

Ainda nem acabou, já estou com saudades da faculdade.

Das Es

Das Ich

Das Überich

True, true

"Animals cannot afford to confuse prey with predator, own species with another, or male with female"
- Gibson (1979; cit. in McArthur & Baron, 1983, p. 222)

Se eu me casar com um Ratcliff os meus filhos vão ser todos esquizofrénicos

Tecnicamente, "Ratcliff" quer dizer "Falésia de Ratazanas".


PS:
Adoro esta minha leviandade em aplicar rótulos psicológicos. Logo eu, que sou quase psicóloga.

Only unintentional behaviors have causes.

- Malle (2004)

Pescadinha-de-rabo-na-boca

"According to Van Boven & Loewenstein’s (2003) dual-judgment model, people first imagine being in the other’s situation. Indeed, simply imagining another’s feelings in another situation activates several self-related cognitions (Davis et al. 2004)."
- Uleman Saribay Gonzalez 2008, p.342

E é exactamente aquilo que eu estou a fazer enquanto leio esta frase: imaginar como é que normalmente acontece comigo.

Isto é que eu acho verdadeiramente assustador

"Perceivers' judgments of competence, after only one-second exposures to pairs of political candidates' faces, predict real-world election outcomes and margins of victory."


- Todorov, Mandisodza, & Goren (2005) cit. in Uleman, Saribay & Gonzalez (2008)

Autores respeitáveis cujos nomes me levam a questionar a veracidade dos seus contributos científicos:

1. Bill Bytheway (gerontólogo e sociólogo);
2. Michael H. Baumgardner (investigador do sleeper effect);
3. Charles J. Brainerd (co-autor da fuzzy-trace theory);
4. Edwin G. Boring (um dos primeiros investigadores na área da consciência);
5. Ursula Goodenough (bióloga e zoóloga)

PS: Adoro como os autores cujos nomes começam com "b" tendem a ser por mim descreditados

E depois é isto, é eu ler artigos e achar-lhes piada, e rir-me sozinha.

"This was accomplished with a strategy rarely used in laboratory research; namely, participants were told the truth."
- Skowronski, Carlston, Mae & Crawford, 1998 (p.842)

Alguém sabia disto?

Earth was originally born as a twin to the planet Theia, which was about half as wide as Earth and roughly the size of Mars. The two planets shared an orbit for several million years until they collided. Earth absorbed Theia, and the remaining debris eventually coagulated into Earth’s moon. The mass donated by Theia gave Earth the gravity necessary to sustain a substantial atmosphere.


- Stewart, Iain & Lynch, John. (2007). Earth: The Biography. Washington, DC: National Geographic.

Kimochi!

Cross-Cultural Differences in Decision Making
"North Americans (...) tend to be more analytical, rely on factual information, and search for solutions to problems. In contrast, in Asian cultures (particularly Japan), the kimochi, or feeling, has to be right and logic is less important"
IN Hoyer & McInnis, 1997, p. 219

A estrutura e a estratégia de uma organização são indissociáveis, certo?

Mas então e as organizações que só têm uma existência online?

Eu queria repetir gaspacho

Tirada daqui.

"Passa-me a sangria!"


Acho que, na minha cabeça, estes dois conceitos devem estar arrumados numa mesma categoria de líquidos de cor avermelhada, feitos de legumes/frutos, e populares na cultura hispânica.

O que não deixa de ser uma categoria interessante.

E eu que nem sabia que isto se dizia

"As it is said of bad restaurants: Not only was the food awful, but there wasn't much of it".
- Gilbert (1998), p.91


(noutro registo, acho que estou apaixonada pelo Gilbert!)

Ahah, grande Gilbert!

"Calling this process perception is a bit like naming one's cat Dog. The family gets used to it eventually, but when guests arrive there is always a lot of explaining to do"

- Gilbert (1998), p.89