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Permalink Reply by Galen on December 24, 2009 at 5:11am

Which sounds all nice and everything until you run up against shit like "oppositional defiance disorder" which is a disease given to the fact that children (often teens) tend to rebel against adult authority. Well, have ya seen how they get treated in schools? I'd be oppositional and defiant too! That's not a disease, it's human nature.

Just one example.

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Permalink Reply by Arduinnae on December 22, 2009 at 7:28am

Agreed, Prazzie. Some branches are... dubious. My university (where I only studied Psych as an elective, mind you) stuck completely to the hard science realm of psychology. I can assure you (Galen) that humans are far more predictable than you might think. And where our reactions our different, they are different in consistent ways.

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Permalink Reply by Jacqueline Sarah Homan on December 21, 2009 at 8:12pm

You just try to love in a controlled and reproducible manner in a laboratory setting!

Galen, somehow I don't think most people would really be able to make love uninhibitedly in a lab situation where they knew they were being blatantly stared at orobserved. I mean, they might give it their best shot, but...for a woman to climax, it's 99% mental. And like other primates, women don't like to be gawked at while doing "bathroom privacy" related stuff (like going poop/pee, or giving birth or making love while surrounded by a herd of gawking strangers). Does that sorta kinda somewhat sound reasonable?

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Permalink Reply by Dave G on December 22, 2009 at 9:28am

Jacqueline, I suspect that Galen was talking about emotional/romantic love, not the physical act of sex. Setting up a laboratory experiment for reliably reproducing that would be much more difficult, I would think, than it would to test the conditions needed for climax.

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Permalink Reply by Jacqueline Sarah Homan on December 22, 2009 at 10:53am

But there is no way to observe that! It's like trying to observe magnetic force fields without matter! There are various degrees and types of "love." How would each be able to be scientifically observed?

As to my faus pax in misreading Galen's post, all I can say is "Ooops!" ::hanging head sheepishly and blushing ::

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Permalink Reply by Arduinnae on December 22, 2009 at 11:00am

Plus, what IS “love”? It’s the same problem depression has. It’s so difficult to study in a lab environment because we don’t have a clear definition. People use “love” to refer to all sorts of different things. Many of the feelings we call “love” are, in fact, tested. Attraction in its various forms, for example, has definitely had a lot of work done on it. There have also been many studies looking at trait combinations as predictors of divorce (surprise, impulsive men are more likely to get divorces than non-impulsive men).

But “love” is too abstract. It’s a word that means so much that it doesn’t mean anything at all.

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Permalink Reply by Galen on December 26, 2009 at 1:45pm

what IS “love”?

BABY DON'T HURT ME... DON'T HURT ME... NO MORE!

(sorry, I couldn't help it)

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Permalink Reply by Jacqueline Sarah Homan on December 27, 2009 at 4:16am

Galen, have you been reading all those naughty X-rated Bible stories again? Tsk tsk tsk :>

Permalink Reply by Dave G on December 29, 2009 at 12:24pm

Galen, you should have included the link. :D

Permalink Reply by Schroeder Alice Veidt on May 16, 2011 at 1:31am

Maybe this will answer your question:

 

The average Mormon is more likely to be in top physical condition than anyone on this site.

it's not because they have 'god' in them, but what the Mormon society has in common with recommended healthy living - no alcohol, no premarital sex, no risky hobbies, no caffeine, plenty of exercise, home-prepared meals, no smoking, and so on.

 

Of course someone looking at a demographic of Mormons (or any religious group that bases itself on what it CANNOT do rather than what it CAN) will appear to be healthier than others.

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